qualcomm has finally revealed its flagship mobile chipset, snapdragon 8 gen 3, at the annual snapdragon summit 2023. this chip will power most of the top android smartphones in 2024. but has the chip maker done anything new with snapdragon 8 gen 3? will we finally experience the power of nuvia designed cores on android smartphones? to get answers to all these questions, let's go through everything we know about snapdragon 8 gen 3.

First of all, let's talk about the processor. qualcomm has gone with a traditional octa-core design and packed kryo cores on the snapdragon 8 gen 3. this means that android smartphones this year will not run the newer nuvia-designed oryon cores available on the snapdragon x elite. however, the company has used all the latest ARM cores on the SD 8 gen 3. The chip is also manufactured on TSMC's 4nm process node.

snapdragon 8 gen 3 has a single prime core, cortex-x4 with a max clock speed of 3.3ghz along with 3x cortex-a720 cores clocked at 3.2ghz and 2x cortex-a720 cores clocked slightly lower at 3.0ghz. finally we have 2x cortex-a520 cores clocked at 2.3ghz. this time qualcomm has surprisingly used the performance cores, cortex-a720 at two different frequencies – 3.2ghz and 3.0ghz, which has not been seen before. it means that in multi-core performance, this chipset will likely perform better.

for 8 gen 3 the cpu core cluster design is 1+(3+2)+2, and qualcomm has completely dropped support for 32-bit architecture. according to the company, snapdragon 8 gen 3 brings around 30% performance improvement and is 20% more efficient than snapdragon 8 gen 2, which is significant