Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 coming with 3.7GHz prime core, new CPU clusters

28 April 2023
The new chip, still built on the 4 nm node, will have a 1+5+2 CPU combination.

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rizki1, 28 Apr 2023that's nuts, if developers want to make Android games ... moreyes......
phone shud be a phone, computer to be a computer.
things are going like, computer in a phone, super computer in a normal computer.

we don't need such superficial things. being simple is better for long sustaining run 😁😁

    we don't need computers in a mobile phone.
    we don't need high performance in a mobile phone.
    cameras, music, what are we going to do next?
    bring AI mobile phones, CHATGPT phones????

    we are heading towards Doom's day....... the final fall of technology.

    we just need a phone to do normal tasks, basic things.
    mobile phones are getting saturated.

    we have work on long battery life, long updates, solar cells, LTPO 5.0 etc.... we don't need beat performance it's just useless.

      AnonD-1073493, 28 Apr 2023yes, it will run at -15°c by default like all other cpus Of course i was expecting you know what i meant.

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        omzig, 28 Apr 2023having this much power on a smartphone SoC is like having 6... moreMove on already to 7+ Gen 1 or at least use 800 series (855 and later).

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          Anonymous, 28 Apr 2023Don't you just love how instead of making phones SUSTA... more5 minutes? I'm not sure you're talking about who since most people I know can go for hours...

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            omzig, 28 Apr 2023having this much power on a smartphone SoC is like having 6... moreS8G2 is faster in day to day tasks, especially when the single core is engaged, runs cooler and the battery life will be better then both of those SoCs you named.

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              Jimmy Potter, 28 Apr 2023This clock speed is just unnecessary. It is time we start f... moreThey already are also working on efficiency, which is also simultaneously necessary to hit high performance. A mobile processor is not like a desktop counterpart in which they can pump 250 watts of power to compete.

              The thing you're missing is, 3.8 GHz is the peak frequency, it doesn't mean that core will run at that frequency all the time. Also high frequency also opens a door for longer sleep intervals, so it is not always necessarily bad for efficiency, given the processor and the operating system utilizes an efficient sleep and wake implementation.

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                Given that S8G2 is 28% more efficient than S8+G1 at 3600 geekbench 5 score (4.5W vs 5.75W) just by adding 1 more core and little bit of cache, i expect anouther bump in efficiency even more then 30%, 1 more middle core + 12% more efficient transistors will make this happen, it will definitely beat a16 (3.65W) but it will be still behind a17. Also S8G3 single core will be closer to a15 than a16.

                  Anonymous, 28 Apr 2023X86 mid range laptop 1260 series GPU GTX 1050Tithat's nuts, if developers want to make Android games equivalent to PCs or console this will make PC and console sales decrease.

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                    rizki1, 28 Apr 2023ok, so which x86 mobile processor equivalent is this? and a... moreX86 mid range laptop 1260 series


                    GPU GTX 1050Ti

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                      Meanwhile Exynos & Tensor 👉 🤡

                        Jimmy Potter, 28 Apr 2023This clock speed is just unnecessary. It is time we start f... moreWhile this is certainly true, it all depends on how the 3.7 Ghz core is going to be used. Maybe it will never even get powered up, unless in the most demanding single-threaded or lightly threaded applications, where its speed may make a difference.
                        Most of the time, the phone is in "idle", so no applications actively running, or only some processes running in the background, such as monitoring the input of various sensors etc. While not being time-critical, their cumulative energy consumption builds up over time, so in order to be energy efficient, the SoC needs to have a few ultra-low-energy consuming cores that are sufficient forvarious background tasks without spending lots of energy.
                        And then of course, there are the energy-eating "monsters" such as the screen, that need to be tamed...

                          Super Android 22, 28 Apr 2023Well theoretically it isnt 3nm, nor is their 4nm actually 4... moreOk. Thanks for the explanation

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                            Anonymous, 28 Apr 2023Don't you just love how instead of making phones SUSTA... moreHigher number sells better.

                            Sad truth

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                              Don't you just love how instead of making phones SUSTAIN performance for longer, they just push them even further? Like, who cares if it can reach 3.7GHz if it can keep it at that for no more than 3 minutes before dropping 25-30% of the performance?

                              Applications literally run perfectly fine even on mid-low tier phones, games are the ONLY good reason to have higher performance and nobody would play a visually intensive game for 5 minutes.

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                                Droid4ever, 28 Apr 2023This is overkillMan believe me but is not. In like 4-5 years will all new upcomming technology this SD 8 gen 3 will barrely run advanced games and in like another 4 5 years even most basic.
                                Like you cant run anything on SD820 or SD835 this going to be same thing.
                                It looks like overkill. It will be very premium after a year of use.
                                After 2 years it will be just normal CPU and GPU and in 5-10 years it will be so outdated it wont run even game of chess or mahjong or candy crush.

                                  Jimmy Potter, 28 Apr 2023This clock speed is just unnecessary. It is time we start f... moreIts burst perfomance thats help average user more than gamers, X core is meant to be used for brief, like you browse website you encounter heavy script which could cause lag Xcore will be used for few seconds then switch to normal perfomance cores.

                                  What cause good or bad battery life are small and perfomance cores those A7xx and A5xx, if those are efficient even if X core is 10ghz you will get good battery life.

                                    These flagship Snapdragon always go to waste as the OEMs never use the previous year’s 8 series chips for midrange models, They always stuck with old chips like SD695 or Mediatek 1080. I mean look at how many phones using 7gen2.

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                                      Does it matter tho, manufacturers always handicap max clock rate. even if they don't this time, phone will just heat up and throttle down after 5 seconds of high load.

                                        Aierlan, 28 Apr 2023So Apple might be the only company with 3nm chips for most... moreWell theoretically it isnt 3nm, nor is their 4nm actually 4nm. It was like when intel was still on 14nm but in reality it was closer to 10nm/7nm. Every fab manufacture seem to have different ways they class it as that specific die size, more of a marketing gimmick now than anything.

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