Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 development device shows performance potential in early benchmark result

Earlier this week, new details about the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 emerged online. Allegedly, Qualcomm's next flagship chipset will offer 25% CPU performance improvements over the current Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, with up to 30% GPU gains also spoken of. Subsequently, a Chinese leaker has shared a screenshot of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 being benchmarked in AnTuTu v10.

As the image below shows, the SoC sits within a Qualcomm test device, codenamed 'qti Pineapple for arm64'. For reference, Qualcomm is rumoured to have designed the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 with a single Cortex-X4 CPU core, plus three Cortex-A720 cores, another two Cortex-A720 cores and two Cortex-A520 cores that are there for power efficiency purposes. Supposedly, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is capable of exceeding 1,700,000 points in AnTuTu v10, with 1,771,106 shown. Unfortunately, scores obtained from the older AnTuTu v9 benchmark are not directly comparable with those achieved in AnTuTu v10.

Still, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has been seen scoring roughly 1.4 million in AnTuTu v10, which would be in line with earlier Geekbench score differences between it and the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. Currently, Qualcomm is expected to announce the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 in October, a month earlier than its predecessor. However, Snapdragon 8 Gen 3-powered handsets are unlikely to be available globally until early 2024.

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