Snapdragon 8 Gen3, the TITAN SoC for flagship mobile devices detailed
MSpoweruser has new information on the upcoming chip.
Snapdragon 8 Gen, Source: MSPowerUser
Qualcomm seems to be having difficulty keeping a lid on the details of their upcoming next-generation Snapdragon chips. Following the full disclosure of their Snapdragon X Elite SoC for PCs, there’s a new leak featuring the 4nm Snapdragon 8 Gen3 SoC designed for flagship phones.
The website MSpowerser has shared comprehensive specifications and images from the presentation of this new chip. These details confirm Qualcomm’s strong emphasis on AI, which appears to be a primary focus for this generation of products. But it’s not just AI, the comapny is also upgrading the graphics capabilities of this new mobile processor, promising “console-defying” and “premium level” ray tracing features with support for Unreal Engine 5.2, according the report.
For the previous generation chip, marketing efforts were centered around Vulkan 1.3 support, but for the new generation, the focus is on Unreal Engine 5 with Lumen support. Qualcomm claims a 25% increase in performance and a 25% boost in efficiency. Additionally, the new chip will support Snapdragon Game Super Resolution upscaling technology, allowing for up to 8K resolution with a single spatial pass. Notably, the chip also boasts AV1 decoding capabilities.
Snapdragon 8 Gen, Source: MSPowerUser
The Hexagon NPU (Neural Processing Unit) has seen an improvement, offering up to a 98% increase in speed and a 40% enhancement in efficiency compared to its predecessor. It now supports an 10 billion parameters and can handle more than 20 tokens per second with Meta Llama2/Baichuan LLM models.
The Kryo CPU has received a frequency boost as well. The ‘prime’ core can now reach speeds as high as 3.3 GHz, which is 100MHz higher than the SD 8Gen2 SoC. Furthermore, the five ‘performance’ cores have been upgraded to reach up to 3.2 GHz, representing a significant 400 MHz increase, and an extra core has been added to this category. The previous triple ‘efficient’ core setup has been replaced with a dual-core configuration, which can now go up to 2.3 GHz. Qualcomm asserts that their new CPU core will be 30% faster and 20% more efficient than its predecessor.
The first phones featuring SD 8 Gen3 should launch next year, the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra named as one of them.
| Specifications | |
|---|---|
| Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 | |
| Artificial Intelligence | Qualcomm® AI Engine • Qualcomm® Adreno™ GPU • Qualcomm® Kryo™ CPU • Qualcomm® Hexagon™ NPU • Fused AI accelerator architecture • Hexagon scalar, vector, and tensor accelerators • Hexagon Direct Link • Upgraded Micro Tile Inferencing • Upgraded power delivery system • Support for mix precision (INT8+INT16) • Support for all precisions (INT4, INT8, INT16, FP16) Qualcomm® Sensing Hub • Dual micro NPUs for audio and sensors • Dual Always-Sensing ISPs to support two concurrent Always-Sensing Cameras • Support for INT4 precision |
| CPU | Qualcomm® Kyro™ CPU • 64-bit Architecture • 1 Prime core, up to 3.3 GHz • 5 Performance cores, up to 3.2 GHz • 2 Efficiency cores, up to 2.3 GHz |
| Visual Subsystem | Adreno GPU • Real-time Hardware-Accelerated Ray Tracing with Global Illumination • Support for Unreal Engine 5 Lumen Global Illumination and Reflections System • Snapdragon Game Super Resolution • Adreno Frame Motion Engine 2.0 • Snapdragon Game Post Processing Accelerator • HDR gaming (10-bit color depth, Rec. 2020 color gamut) • Snapdragon Shadow Denoiser • API support: OpenGL® ES 3.2, OpenCL™ 2.0 FP, Vulkan® 1.3 • Hardware-accelerated H.265, VP9, AV1 decoder • HDR Playback Codec support for HDR10+, HDR10, HLG, and Dolby Vision |
| 5G Modem-RF System | Snapdragon® X75 5G Modem-RF System |
| Memory | • Memory Density: Up to 24 GB • Support for LP-DDR5x memory, up to 4800 MHz |
| Wi-Fi & Bluetooth | Qualcomm® FastConnect™ 7800 System • Wi-Fi Generation: Wi-Fi 7 • Peak Speed: 5.8 Gbps • 802.11be, 802.11ax, 802.11ac, 802.11a/b/g/n • Wi-Fi Spectral Bands: 6 Ghz, 5 GHz, 2.4 GHz • Channel Bandwidth: 320/240/160/80/40/20 MHz • 8-stream sounding (for 8×8 MU-MIMO) • MIMO Configuration: 2×2 (2-stream) • MU-MIMO (Uplink & Downlink) • 4K QAM • OFDMA (Uplink & Downlink) • High Band Simultaneous (HBS) Multi-Link • Wi-Fi Security: WPA3-Enterprise, WPA3-Enhanced Open, WPA3 Easy Connect, WPA3-Personal Integrated BluetoothBluetooth Audio: Snapdragon Sound™ Technology with support for Qualcomm XPAN Technology, Qualcomm® aptX™ Voice, aptX Lossless, aptX Adaptive, and LE Audio • Bluetooth Features: Bluetooth 5.4, LE Audio, Dual Bluetooth antennas |
| Display | On-Device Display Support: • 4K @ 60 Hz • QHD+ @ 144 Hz Maximum External Display Support: • Up to 8K @ 30 Hz • Up to 1080 @ 240 Hz Variable Refresh Rate support for 240 Hz to 1 Hz • 10-bit color depth, Rec. 2020 color gamut • HDR10, HDR10+, HDR vivid, and Dolby Vision |
| Audio | • Qualcomm Aqstic™ audio codec • Qualcomm Aqstic smart speaker amplifier • Total Harmonic Distortion + Noise (THD+N) • Playback: -108dB • Qualcomm® Audio and Voice Communication Suite • Spatial audio with head-tracking |
| Camera | Qualcomm Spectra™ Image Signal Processor • Cognitive ISP, Triple 18-bit ISPs • Up to 36 MP triple camera @ 30 FPS with Zero Shutter Lag Up to 64+36 MP dual camera @ 30 FPS with Zero Shutter Lag • Up to 108 MP single camera @ 30 FPS with Zero Shutter Lag • 8K HDR video capture + 64 MP photo capture @ 30 FPS 4K video capture @ 120 FPS |
| USB | Version 3.1 Gen 2; USB Type-C Support |
Source: MSpoweruser
