TL;DR
- Particulars for Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 processor have apparently leaked on-line.
- The brand new chipset will reportedly provide a 1+3+2+2 CPU design.
- Qualcomm’s chipset will purportedly be a 64-bit-only design as effectively.
Qualcomm has lengthy caught with the identical CPU format for its flagship processors utilized in high-end telephones, providing one highly effective huge core, three medium cores, and 4 little cores. That modified with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, as the corporate switched to 1 huge core, 4 medium cores, and three little cores.
Now, a brand new leak by tipster Kuba Wojciechowski on Twitter factors to Qualcomm altering issues up once more for the upcoming Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. The leaker asserts that the brand new SoC has the mannequin quantity SM8650, is codenamed Lanai, and may have a 1+3+2+2 CPU setup.
Extra particularly, Wojciechowski says Qualcomm will use two brand-new Arm CPU cores, specifically one huge Cortex-X core codenamed Hunter ELP (dubbed a Gold Plus core by Qualcomm) and 5 medium Cortex-A7xx cores. The 5 new Cortex-A7xx sequence cores are additional divided into two so-called Titanium cores and three Gold cores. The tipster speculates that these Titanium cores may need increased clock speeds or extra cache.
In any other case, Wojciechowski asserts that Qualcomm will use two little Cortex-A5xx sequence cores codenamed Hayes. Hayes is the codename for a successor to the present Cortex-A510 core, suggesting that we’ll really see three new Arm CPU cores within the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3.
What does this imply for 2024’s telephones?
Different claimed options embody an Adreno 750 GPU (up from Adreno 740 within the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2) and 64-bit app help solely. The latter could be a serious landmark for Android, as all present Android chipsets nonetheless help 32-bit operations. Google’s Pixel 7 sequence telephones don’t help 32-bit apps, however the Tensor G2 processor nonetheless makes use of CPU cores with 32-bit help.
Nonetheless, this leak suggests we’ll see fewer little cores than ever earlier than. It’s unclear what this purported swap to fewer little cores means for general effectivity. Then once more, extra medium cores (notably if the Titanium cores see a velocity/cache enhance) ought to lead to even higher multi-core efficiency metrics. Will this be sufficient to beat Apple, notably in multi-core benchmarks? We’ll simply have to attend and see.
