Snapdragon 8sGen3: A brand new option beyond the flagship and mid-range

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2024-06-19 18:13Published in Guangdong

Recently, there have been new products in the mid-to-high-end Android market, and the most attractive of them is the series of products from the Qualcomm Snapdragon family. In the first half of this year, Qualcomm released two mid-to-high-end positioning chips in one go, Snapdragon 8sgen3 and Snapdragon 7+gen3, these two products were released at a similar time, the positioning is convergent, and the performance and experience are also relatively close.

Snapdragon 8sgen3 and Snapdragon 7+gen3 are relatively similar in all aspects, Qualcomm isn't it a wrestling with himself, obviously a product with similar performance is enough, why do you want two this year? In fact, even though the Snapdragon 8sgen3 and the Snapdragon 7+ gen3 are quite similar, these are still two different products, and there are still some differences in detail. And, from the consumer's point of view, who would dislike that there are more types of products on the market?!

From the naming point of view, Snapdragon 8sgen3 and Snapdragon 7+gen3 belong to the Snapdragon 8 series flagship, and the other belongs to the Snapdragon 7 series mid-range product line. It's just that in recent years, the Snapdragon 7 series mid-range products have sprung up, the performance has been significantly improved, and the sense of experience has been rising, especially inheriting many advanced flagship features, which makes the boundary between the Snapdragon 7 series mid-range products and the Snapdragon 8 series flagship products not so clear.

But the 7 series is the 7 series, and the 8 series is the 8 series, even if they have a lot of experience commonality, but in terms of basic hardware configuration, storage and frequency setting, there are obvious differences between these two different levels of products. Such a difference also directly determines the difference in cost. The Snapdragon 8 series flagship corresponds to the high-end market of more than 3000 yuan on the market, and the Snapdragon 7 series is mainly selected for the cost-effective thousand-yuan machine, so there are fundamental differences in the pricing of products at different levels, and the basic hardware parameters we mentioned above are also the most critical points for chip manufacturers to achieve cost control.

Let's take a look at the prices of several recently released Snapdragon 7+ Gen3 models on the market, OnePlus Ace3V starts at 1999 yuan, and the starting price of Realme GT Neo6SE is as low as 1699 yuan, which is a veritable thousand-yuan machine, basically only about half the price of the flagship model, and the price advantage is precisely the biggest advantage of the vast majority of mid-range models on the market.

Snapdragon 8sgen3 is better than Snapdragon 7+gen3, which is more advanced in architecture, more radical performance tuning, and the inheritance of flagship features, Snapdragon 8sgen3 is also more comprehensive, so, on the whole, Snapdragon 8sgen3 is a little higher than Snapdragon 7+gen3 in positioning, but it is not too high, it is basically a state of being less than the top and more than the bottom. Compared with the Snapdragon 8gen3, which is a big leader, compared with the Snapdragon 8gen3 as a performance benchmark, the Snapdragon 8sgen3 is indeed a little worse, which is a matter of the bright side. Compared with the Snapdragon 7+ Gen3, the Snapdragon 8sgen3 is indeed superior, there is no doubt about it.

It is precisely because this is better that mobile phone manufacturers can create a new product line between the mid-range and the flagship, and we can call this new product line that is more than the top less than the bottom - the mid-range flagship. It's a particularly creative new name that both satisfies the need for people chasing flagship features while keeping the bottom line in the mid-range when it comes to pricing.

The price of the model equipped with Snapdragon 8sgen3 is in the range of 1999 yuan -2999 yuan, and the upper test will be able to reach the lower limit of the flagship, and the lower test is the same as the upper limit of the Snapdragon 7+gen3, and the three products can basically do not interfere with each other. But for consumers, in addition to the flagship and mid-range, there is a new option, that is, a new generation of flagships with mid-range pricing.

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