Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen3 running score exposure: performance increased by nearly 50%! Can the Dimensity 9300 be better?
News on September 26, after the launch of the first 3nm process chip Apple A17 Pro, Qualcomm will also release a new generation of flagship processor Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 at the end of October, and MediaTek may release a new generation of flagship processor Dimensity 9300 in early November. Soon, a wonderful dragon and tiger fight is about to be staged.
According to the latest exposure information, Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen3 will use a 1+3+2+2 octa-core design, that is, an Arm Cortex-X4 super core with a main frequency of up to 3.19GHz, three Cortex-A720 large cores with a main frequency of 3.15GHz, two Cortex-A720 large cores with a main frequency of 2.96GHz, two Cortex-A520 small cores with a main frequency of 2.27GHz, and an Adreno 750 GPU with a main frequency. In terms of process technology, the latest rumors say that the Snapdragon 8 Gen3 will also be manufactured using TSMC's 3nm process.
Previously, users on the X platform @Revegnus broke the news that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 for Galaxy scored 7,400 points in the multi-core test of Geekbench 6. This score is very impressive, because the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy processor on the Galaxy S23 series has a multi-core score of 4,975 points in Geekbench 6, which means that the multi-core performance of the new processor is improved by up to 49%.
In addition, the Geekbench 6 Vulkan test results of the newly exposed Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 engineering prototype were also exposed, with a score of 15434 points, a significant increase of 47.7% compared to the 10447 points of Snapdragon 8 Gen2.
On the whole, the overall CPU and GPU performance of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 compared with the previous generation of Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is expected to bring a significant improvement of nearly 50%!
In the face of the strong attack of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, MediaTek's new generation flagship processor Dimensity 9300 also adopts an all-core architecture like never before.
According to the current information, MediaTek will Dimensity 9300 based on TSMC 3nm process, will use 4 Cortex-X4 super large cores and 4 Cortex-A720 large core CPU architecture for the first time, and the current flagship processor, usually using super large cores, large cores, small cores composed of three cluster CPU architecture, obviously Dimensity 9300 will remove the small cores in the 8 cores, leaving only the super large cores and large cores, which may bring a significant improvement in performance. It is expected that its performance will not be inferior to Apple's A17 Pro processor. (According to the latest score test results, the A17 Pro's single-core score in Geekbench 6 is close to 3,000 points, and the multi-core score is more than 7,700.) However, the architecture of 4 super cores + 4 large cores may also lead to increased power consumption.
According to the information released by Arm, the Cortex-X4 super core has improved the performance by 15% compared to the previous generation X3 super core. Moreover, thanks to the new high-efficiency microarchitecture, under TSMC's 4nm process technology, Cortex-X4 can reduce energy consumption by 40% compared with Cortex-X3.
According to foreign media reports, from the perspective of the MediaTek Dimensity 9300 processor using a full-core CPU architecture, if successful, it may become a new trend in the development of flagship processors in the future. In addition, the Dimensity 9300 will also support running Meta's next-generation open source big language model (LLM) Llama 2 on mobile phones.
Therefore, there will be fierce competition between Apple A17 Pro, Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen3, and MediaTek Dimensity 9300, and we will wait and see who will be better.
Editor: Xinzhixun - Ronin Sword