Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and MediaTek Dimensity 9300 fail to impress in initial Genshin Impact tests
Rumours from late last year suggested the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 offered phenomenal generation-over-generation gains over the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. While those figures could have been accurate at that time on an early sample, subsequent revisions have shown the improvements to be much more modest. Prolific leaker Digital Chat Station has now given us more insight into how the SoCs Adreno 750 (tentative) GPU performs in the real world.
It seems the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is unable to maintain a steady 60 FPS in Genshin Impact at 1080p, a feat even Apple's M series of APs are yet to achieve. Whether or not this stems from the silicon's ability to sustain performance or lack of optimization on the developer's part is unknown. However, the general sentiment on Weibo leans towards the latter. Perhaps that could change with subsequent versions. After all, the Adreno 750 is rumoured to boost as high as 1 GHz.
Another renowned leaker Ice Universe explains why the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 fails to crack the proverbial Genshin Impact code. It seems the AP is, at best, a marginal upgrade over its predecessor. Not particularly surprising, given its minor node shift (TSMC N4 to N4P). Either way, the performance uplift is shaping up to be remarkably lower than the 50% figure estimated by an earlier rumour.
Even MediaTek's Dimensity 9300 suffers from the same fate as the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, likely due to the abovementioned reasons. That could change in 2024, though, thanks to the inclusion of Nvidia GPUs on flagship MediaTek APs. One shouldn't rule out Exynos, either, as it will certainly have an answer with its RDNA GPUs.
