Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen3 specifications revealed, the first chip designed specifically for generative AI in mobile devices

External media MSPowerUser reported the complete specifications of Snapdragon 8 Gen3. According to the website, the information comes from an internal Qualcomm document.

It is reported that Snapdragon 8 Gen3 will be the first chip designed specifically for generative AI in mobile devices. It is the most powerful and versatile mobile processor on the market.

According to the picture, Snapdragon 8 Gen3 uses TSMC’s 4nm process, which improves CPU performance by 30% and reduces power consumption by 20%, but it does not show whether it is compared with the previous generation Snapdragon 8 Gen2 or other products.

Snapdragon 8 Gen3 will support at least iPhone 15-level ray tracing capabilities, support the ray tracing capabilities and global illumination capabilities of Unreal Engine 5, and can upgrade game cutscenes to 8K.

Adreno 750 GPU has improved performance and energy efficiency by 25% compared to the previous generation. With the support of Qualcomm’s own Image Motion Engine 2.0 (Adreno Frame Motion Engine) and Unreal Engine 5, you can experience 240FPS smoothness on a 240Hz display.

Snapdragon 8 Gen3 will also provide device-side generative AI support, with more than 10 billion parameters, and its NPU is nearly twice as fast as the previous generation.

In terms of connectivity, Snapdragon 8 Gen3 integrates Qualcomm’s latest X75 5G baseband, which supports 10Gbps downlink speeds and 3.5Gbps uplink speeds. The chipset also supports Wi-Fi 7 and can reach speeds of 5.8Gbps.

In addition, the USB version supported by Snapdragon 8 Gen3 is 3.1 Gen2, with a maximum bandwidth of 10Gbps, which means that Android phones equipped with Snapdragon 8 Gen3 and supporting the above specifications can be connected to an external display like the iPhone 15 Pro.