Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset is expected to be unveiled by the chipmaker next month at the upcoming Snapdragon Summit 2023 event. The company has yet to reveal any details about the expected successor to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC that was unveiled last year, but several performance leaks have surfaced online in recent months. Now, a benchmark of the alleged chipset has surfaced online, giving us an idea of what to expect from Qualcomm’s next flagship mobile processor.
A mention for the alleged Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 (through tipster Ice Universe) was posted on the benchmarking site Geekbench on Monday. The entry is titled Qualcomm Pineapple for arm64 and refers to the same code name for the chipset expected to debut next month as the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. Qualcomm has yet to confirm the name of its next smartphone chip.
According to the submission, the Geekbench 6 Vulkan score for the chip is 15,434 points in the Vulkan test. This is much higher than the score for two gaming smartphones with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 that were released last year. The most recent entry for the Nubia Z50S Pro shows a score of 10,125 points, while the Asus ROG Phone 7 Ultimate scored 9,101 points.
The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC that will power most flagship smartphones in 2023 is equipped with an Adreno 740 GPU, and the next-generation chipset is expected to include an Adreno 750 GPU. The Geekbench scores indicate that graphics performance on the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC will be around 50 percent higher than its predecessor.
In June, an AnTuTu benchmark listing for the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 was spotted on Chinese microblogging website Weibo, with a score of 17,71,106 points. The score was much higher than that of all devices at the time, including the iQoo Neo 8 Pro (13,58,352), OnePlus 11 5G (13,24,440) and Oppo Find X6 Pro (13,07,816).
However, it’s worth taking these scores with a grain of salt as smartphones launched with the upcoming chipset could offer different levels of performance based on their build quality, thermal management technology and software optimization. We can expect to learn more about the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset in the days leading up to its debut at the Snapdragon Summit 2023 event in October.
