Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Goes Official With Up To A 3.30GHz Clock Speed Boost, 50% Ray Tracing Performance Bump, On-Device AI Support & More

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A previous leak may have revealed the majority of the information that Qualcomm provided today, but that did not prevent the chipset maker from officially announcing its next flagship silicon, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. Armed with a host of performance boosts over the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, the latest SoC means business, and more importantly, the latest release is a prime example of just how serious Qualcomm is taking AI, as smartphones featuring the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 will also support on-device artificial intelligence capabilities.

First, let us finish the specifications, and prior to the official announcement, rumors claimed that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 would sport a ‘1 + 5 + 2 ‘CPU cluster. On this occasion, the rumors were not 100 percent correct, as though there is a single Cortex-X4 core running at 3.30GHz and a total of five Cortex-A720 cores, three of them operate at 3.20GHz, while the rest function at 3.00GHz.

As for the remaining two, the Cortex-A520 cores are running at 2.30GHz. There is LPDDR5X RAM support up to 24GB, with speeds of 4,800MHz, an Adreno 750 GPU that supports ray tracing, Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4, the Snapdragon X75 5G modem, and more. There is also 12MB of cache, which has increased from 8MB on the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2.

Qualcomm was kind enough to share the performance and efficiency improvements of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 compared to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. The latest SoC’s CPU is said to be 30 percent faster while consuming 20 percent less power, with the Adreno 750 graphics processor being 25 percent more powerful and energy efficient than the previous generation.

We understand that companies like Qualcomm have a propensity to provide inflated comparison figures, so we will await real-world and synthetic