Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC With Generative AI Features 2ly2k Wi-Fi 7, 240 FPS Gaming Launched

The Qualcomm Adreno GPU is claimed to be 25 percent faster and more efficient than the one on Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC. 396h4u

Written by Siddharth Suvarna | Updated: 25 October 2023 00:30 IST

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC With Generative AI Features, Wi-Fi 7, 240 FPS Gaming Launched

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC features hardware-accelerated ray tracing with global illumination

Highlights

The Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC promises 240 fps gaming on ed displays
The chip claims to have world's fastest stable diffusion image generation
The 5G-ready chip Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4

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AI. The SoC's AI engine s multi-modal generative AI models, including popular large language models (LLMs). The Qualcomm Hexagon NPU promises 98 percent faster and 40 percent more efficient performance. It also promises 240 fps gaming on ed displays, featuring global illumination with ray tracing. The Qualcomm Adreno GPU is claimed to be 25 percent faster and more efficient than the one on Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC. The 5G-ready chip s Wi-Fi 7 and dual Bluetooth.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Availability 5k686t

According to Qualcomm, flagship Android devices powered by its latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC are expected to be available in the coming weeks. The chip will be adopted for flagship devices by global OEMs and smartphone brands, including ASUS, Honor, iQOO, MEIZU, NIO, Nubia, OnePlus, OPPO, realme, Redmi, RedMagic, Sony, Vivo, Xiaomi, and ZTE.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 features 4y2b1r

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC comes with the Qualcomm AI engine, featuring an improved hexagon process claimed to be 98 percent faster and 40 percent more efficient. The chip brings generative AI capabilities, promising the world's fastest stable diffusion for image generation. The chip is based on the 4nm processing technology, with the Qualcomm Kryo U delivering up to 3.3 GHz at 30 percent faster and 20 percent more efficient rates. The U comes with five Performance cores, up to 3.2 GHz, and two Efficiency cores, up to 2.3 GHz.

Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Chip Said to Cross 2 Million Mark in Benchmark Test

The chip also promises high-end gaming performance, featuring hardware-accelerated ray tracing with global illumination. The chip promises 240 fps gaming on ed displays, with the Qualcomm Adreno GPU claimed to be 25 percent faster and more efficient.

The new chip also promises a bunch of new camera features powered by AI. The chip comes with a Video Object Eraser by Arcsoft that removes unwanted elements and people from a video. It also gets new zoom capabilities, powered by Samsung's 200-megapixel image sensor optimized for Snapdragon, allowing multiple video capture, object tracking and 2X and 4X zoom. It s Dolby HDR and features Photo Expansion, which fills up photos with the help of AI.

For connectivity, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 brings the Qualcomm FastConnect 7800 System, the same as the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, with for Wi-Fi 7 802.11be, 802.11ax, 802.11ac, 802.11a/b/g/n, and Bluetooth 5.4. The latest chip features the Snapdragon X75 5G Modem-RF System. The mobile platform is claimed to feature the world's first 5G modem with an integrated AI tensor hardware accelerator.

Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Benchmark Hints at This Major Performance Improvement

The chip also s 24-bit 96 kHz lossless music over Bluetooth, USB Version 3.1 Gen 2, USB Type-C, and UFS 4.0 storage.

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