Qualcomm is believed to introduce the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 at the Snapdragon Summit on October 24. However, ahead of anything official, its performance and cluster configuration was spotted on Geekbench.
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 – Geekbench
The chipset scored 2233 in the single-core test and 6661 in the multi-core test in Gekbeench 6.1.0. This was done with a Samsung SM-S926U with 8GB RAM and running on Android 14. The device is believed to be the Samsung Galaxy S24+.
After speculations on the core layout of the upcoming Qualcomm flagship chipset from 1+5+2 to 1+3+2+2, the Geekbench listing confirms the latter.
The cores were listed with these specific clock speeds:
- 1 x Prime Core at 3.3 GHz
- 3 x Large cores (believed to be Cortex-A720) at 3.15 GHz
- 3 x Large cores (believed to be Cortex-A720) at 2.96 GHz
- 2 x Small Cores (believed to be Cortex-A520) at 2.27 GHz
If this is a Samsung Galaxy S series device though, this could be an overclocked version of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, similar to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy used in the Galaxy S23 series rather than the base version that most flagship devices will feature.
In comparison, the Galaxy S23 Plus scored 2005 and 5274 in the single-core and multi-core tests, respectively
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