Qualcomm announced its latest smartphone SoC \u2014 the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 \u2014 on Tuesday, 24 October 2023, and benchmark tests have revealed that its performance matches and even outperforms Apple’s A17 Bionic.<\/p>\n
GSMArena<\/a><\/strong> put the chip through the ringer with various benchmark tests and compared its results to the A17 Bionic-powered iPhone 15 Pro Max.<\/p>\n In GeekBench 6, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 lost to Apple’s A17 bionic in single-core scoring, with the Qualcomm chip achieving a score of 2,329, compared to the A17 Bionic’s 2,926.<\/p>\n However, multi-core GeekBench 6 and AnTuTu 10 scores paint a different picture.<\/p>\n The Qualcomm chip scored 7,501 in multi-core testing on GeekBench 6, while the A17 Bionic-powered iPhone 15 Pro Max scored 7,237.<\/p>\n The Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 wiped the floor with Apple’s A17 Bionic in AnTuTu testing, achieving a score of 2,139,281, while the Apple chip scored 1,487,203.<\/p>\n AnTuTu is an all-in-one benchmark designed to run tests on a device’s CPU, GPU, memory, and storage.<\/p>\n The new Qualcomm chip<\/a><\/strong> features a 1:5:2 core arrangement, featuring one large “Prime core”, five medium-sized “Performance” cores, and two smaller “Efficiency” cores.<\/p>\n The large core is a 3.3GHz Arm Cortex X4. Qualcomm didn’t specify any other CPU core model numbers.<\/p>\n However, it did say that three of the five medium cores run at 3.2GHz, with the two others running at 3.0GHz. The smaller efficiency cores run at 2.3GHz.<\/p>\n The Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 has a 1:5:2 core arrangement, with one large “Prime” core, five medium “Performance” cores, and two small “Efficiency” cores.<\/p>\n While the company specified that the large core is a 3.3GHz Arm Cortex X4, it didn’t confirm any other CPU core model numbers.<\/p>\n The chip is built on a 4nm process, and Qualcomm says its CPU performance is 30% faster and 20% more efficient, while GPU performance is 25% faster and 25% more efficient.<\/p>\n The Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 has already made its way to powerful flagship smartphones, with Xiaomi unveiling its Snapdragon 8 Gen 3-powered Xiaomi 14 Pro<\/a><\/strong> in late October 2023.<\/p>\n The chip is combined with either 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage or 16GB of RAM and a choice of 512GB or 1TB of storage.<\/p>\n While the Apple chip scored higher on GeekBench 6 for single-core performance, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 outperformed it on multi-core performance, and demolished it in AnTuTu 10 testing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":512600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[90475,82249,3524,85915],"class_list":["post-513377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-apple-a17-bionic","tag-iphone-15-pro-max","tag-qualcomm","tag-snapdragon-8-gen-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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