The latest addition to the Qualcomm catalog is the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3. After years of iPhone updates, we might think that this is an update to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3.
However, Qualcomm claims that the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 is a “specially selected” version of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. This means that this is the case a slightly slower and cheaper chip than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, This is still Qualcomm’s best smartphone chip.
The Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 features a core layout that includes a 3.3GHz Arm Cortex GHz for background processing.
This new “S” chip swaps a “medium” core for a “small” one, for a 1+4+3 configuration instead of 1+5+2. In addition, everything runs at a slower speed: 3 GHz for the prime core, 2.8 GHz for all “medium” cores and 2 GHz for the “small” cores.
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It also appears that the However, Qualcomm has never given a technical explanation of what that means. The chip is still 4nm, just like the 8 Gen 3. Video recording is now limited to 4K instead of 8K.
Qualcomm says so “The Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 is being adopted by major OEMs including Honor, iQOO, realme, Redmi and Xiaomi, with commercial devices expected to be announced in the coming months.” This tells us where this chip goes: the budget flagships popular with Chinese manufacturers.