The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is Qualcomm’s latest and greatest chipset, but new rumors are already surfacing regarding the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. The CPU arrangement of this upcoming flagship chipset has been revealed in a new report.
The chipmaking giant was reported to launch the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 with the same CPU layout as the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC, which is 1+4+3. With a new 1+5+2 configuration, the company reportedly increases the number of performance cores and sacrificed efficiency cores. Recent reports indicate the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 will have a 3.2GHz Cortex X4 core.
Earlier reports had suggested that it could even reach 3.75GHz. While the five Cortex A720 cores will clock at 3.0GHz, the two Cortex A520 cores will clock at 2.0GHz. According to the leak, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 will also have UFS 4.1 internal storage, LPDDR5 memory with 7,500 MT/s, Adreno 750 GPU, and a Qualcomm X75 5G modem.
TSMC’s N4P process node will be used to manufacture the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC, according to the latest leak. This means that Qualcomm’s three generations of flagship chips are still using the same TSMC N5 node. It is possible the company might move the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC to a 3nm process from Samsung or TSMC, or continue to use the N4P process.
