Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 SoC for mid-range smartphones. The manufacturer places the SoC between the Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 and Snapdragon 7+ Gen 2, focusing more on AI applications. Honor and Vivo will be the first to use SoC.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 third generation It is manufactured on 4nm technology and has a maximum CPU clock speed of 2.63GHz. The CPU consists of two performance cores clocked at 2.63 GHz, three cores clocked at 2.4 GHz and four energy-efficient cores clocked at 1.8 GHz. The manufacturer is using its own Adreno GPU once again. Qualcomm promises a 15 percent increase in CPU performance and a 50 percent improvement in GPU performance compared to the Snapdragon 7 Gen 1. The Snapdragon 7+ Gen 2 launched earlier this year has a maximum clock speed of 2.91G Hz, which represents a 50 percent increase in CPU performance compared to Snapdragon 7 Gen 1.

Furthermore, the Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 has an improved X63 5G modem with a maximum download speed of 5 Gbit/s over 5G, up from 4.4 Gbit/s. WiFi speed remains 2.9 Gbit/s thanks to the same Wi-Fi 6E support. In addition to these technical specifications, Qualcomm promises improvements in artificial intelligence applications. For example, the company says that Neural processing unit Under the Hexagon name, it’s 60 percent faster per watt than the first generation.