Qualcomm at its Snapdragon Summit 2023 announced the newest mobile processor Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC for premium smartphones. According to the company generative AI was considered in the creation of its flagship SoC with an AI engine supporting multi-modal generative AI models along with large language models (LLMs). iQoo, Vivo, and Xiaomi are some of the first companies to announce their upcoming phones to be powered by the new processor let’s find out other smartphones to come with Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC.
With the announcement of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset by Qualcomm, iQoo became the first company to announce that its upcoming iQoo 12 will feature the latest flagship chipset. Other brands like OnePlus, Vivo, Xiaomi, Oppo, Sony, MEIZU, NIO, Honor, Redmi, Asus Realme and more are likely to adopt the latest SoC as they will be launching their flagship models in the next few months.
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Besides iQoo, Xiaomi is another smartphone brand to announce Xiaomi 14 with Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC. The smartphone launch is set to launch on October 26 in China. OnePlus has not announced but has been teasing the OnePlus 12 on Weibo. As this phone is the company’s most premium phone it is likely to use Qualcomm’s latest SoC. Oppo which is a sister company of OnePlus also confirmed that Oppo Find X7 Pro will come equipped with Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC.
Another smartphone brand Vivo is confirmed to launch with Snapdragon’s latest flagship mobile processor.
Samsung Galaxy S24 Series will debut next year and will also use Qualcomm’s chipset but it’s yet to be confirmed.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 specifications
The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 will be based on 4nm processing technology. In addition to this, there will be a Qualcomm Kryo CPU with up to 3.3 GHz which is said to be 30% faster and 20 percent more efficient. It includes 5 performance cores (up to 3.2 GHz) and two efficiency cores (up to 3.2 GHz). It comes with Hexagon process NPU which is claimed with 98% faster and 40% more efficient performance. Moreover, the chipset is said to come integrated with Qualcomm Adreno GPU with 25% faster performance. The mobile processor will support 240 fps gaming along with hardware-accelerated ray tracing in addition to global illumination.
For photos and videos, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SOC will powered by Samsung’s 200-megapixel image sensor. In addition to 2X and 4X zoom with object tracking the chip will also allow multiple video capture with support for Dolby HDR. According to Qualcomm, the AI will help in filling up photos using the Photo Expansion feature while the Video Object Eraser by Arcsoft will remove items in a video.
For connectivity, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 processor will include Qualcomm FastConnect 7800 that will provide support for Bluetooth 5.4, Wi-Fi 7 802.11be, 802.11ax, 802.11ac, 802.11a/b/g/n. It will also have a Snapdragon X75 5G Modem-RF System with AI tensor
