The key specifications of Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC have been leaked. Up until now the latest and the most powerful chipset was the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC. It has been used in some of the new high-end smartphones recently, such as the OnePlus 11 5G, iQoo 11 5G, and the much-talked-about Samsung Galaxy S23 series.
A leak suggests that Qualcomm will launch the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset with the same CPU layout as the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, with a 1+4+3 configuration. Now, according to a new report, the company is increasing the number of performance cores while sacrificing an efficiency core with a new 1+5+2 configuration.
Another leak suggests that the chipset is said to have a single Cortex-X4 core running at 3.2 GHz. It will have five Cortex-A720 cores running at 3.0 GHz and two Cortex-A520 cores running at 2.0 GHz.
As for the specifications it features – UFS 4.1 memory, LPDDR5 7,500 MT/s RAM, an Adreno 750 GPU, and a Qualcomm X75 5G modem among the other Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset. The chipset might be built on TSMC’s N4P process node, implying that the other generations of Qualcomm flagships will be locked on what are effectively multiple variations of TSMC’s N5 node.