Qualcomm has announced a cheaper version of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. The company announced that the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 will be available in Honor, iQOO, realme, Xiaomi and others.
Qualcomm says these phones will be launched in the coming months. the Snapdragon 8s 3rd generation It differs from the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 in several points, for example, the GPU is a lower speed Adreno 735 instead of the 750 in the 8 Gen 3. In the CPU group, the Prime core is clocked lower, and there are a large number of lower cores. And more small core.
The modem is the same Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, but supports 3GPP version 17. For phones, the ability to record 8K videos is no longer available, a feature that many manufacturers won’t find very important. Smartphones using this SoC are likely to be upper mid-range devices.
| Snapdragon 8 second generation | Snapdragon 8s 3rd generation | Snapdragon 8 3rd generation | |
|---|---|---|---|
| practical | TSMC 4nm | TSMC 4nm | TSMC 4nm |
| CPU (main) | 1x Cortex-X3 @ 3.2/3.36GHz | 1x Cortex-X4 @ 3.0GHz | 1x Cortex-X4 @ 3.3/3.4GHz |
| CPU (large array) | 2x Cortex-A715 @ 2.8 GHz 2x Cortex-A710 @ 2.8 GHz |
4x Cortex-A720 @ 2.8 GHz | 3x Cortex-720 @ 3.15 GHz 2x Cortex-720 @ 2.96 GHz |
| CPU (small cores) | 3x Cortex-A510 @ 2.0 GHz | 3x Cortex-A520 @ 2.0 GHz | 2x Cortex-A520 @ 2.3GHz |
| memory | Up to 24GB Lpddr5x 4200MHz | Up to 24GB Lpddr5x 4200MHz | Up to 24GB Lpddr5x 4800MHz |
| storage | UFS 4.0 | UFS 4.0 | UFS 4.0 |
| USB | USB 3.1 | USB 3.1 Gen 2 | USB 3.1 Gen 2 |
| GPU | Adreno 740 | Adreno 735 | Adreno 750 |
| 5G modem | X70 | X70 | X75 |
| video | 8K HDR at 30 fps 4K@120 fps |
4K HDR at 60 fps 1080p at 240 fps |
8K HDR at 30 fps 4K@120 fps |
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