Qualcomm has introduced a new chipset in the top-of-the-line 8 series. The new Snapdragon “8s” Gen 3 chipset comes as a slimmed down version of the current generation flagship Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. It is quite similar to the 8 Gen 3, but there are some minor downgrades.
I tested the first Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 phone! Ft. Xiaomi Civi 4 Pro
The US chipmaker said the new flagship 8 Gen 3 chipset has been created to improve the "performance-price ratio", likely referring to a price cut of the 8-series chipset with some compromises. Qualcomm says the new SoC delivers "specially curated Snapdragon experiences."
The Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 has eight Kryo CPU cores and is likely built on TSMC's 4nm process node. It contains a single Cortex-X4 prime core clocked at a maximum frequency of 3.0 GHz.
Additionally, there are 4x performance cores (Cortex-A720) clocked at 2.8GHz and 3x efficiency cores (Cortex-A520) clocked at 2.0GHz. All three cores on the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 have slightly lower clock speeds (up to 400MHz) compared to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3.
