The Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is scheduled to be announced later this month, so it is not surprising to see engineering samples getting tested with the faster LPDDR5T RAM. While Qualcomm’s upcoming flagship SoC does not impress in AnTuTu’s CPU tests, the GPU category is a whole new story, with the chipset said to have obtained a 40 percent performance lead against its predecessor, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2.
Overall, the engineering sample of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 obtained a score of two million in AnTuTu, a 25 percent increase over the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
The scores shared by tipster Digital Chat Station were rumored to be performed on a device featuring LPDDR5T RAM, but the post on Weibo suggests that commercial smartphones will be limited to LPDDR5X chips. In short, the earlier rumor in which the Dimensity 9300 will be the world’s first SoC to have support for the speedier and more efficient memory will likely be true.
Coming to the AnTuTu results, the tipster states that overall, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 obtained a score of two million, which is only a 25 percent increase over the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, which ended up with 1.6 million. However, the GPU test is where the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 commands the biggest lead over Qualcomm’s current-generation flagship silicon, with a 40 percent difference as it achieved 840,000 points in the same test, while the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 got 600,000.
It appears that the Adreno 750 GPU will give the A17 Pro’s 6-core graphics processor a run for its money. As for the CPU, we were hoping to see a bigger difference, as Revegnus’ calculations show that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 performed just 15.7 percent faster than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2’s processor cluster. Also, remember that all these tests were performed with the faster LPDDR5T RAM, so these results may vary by quite a high margin with the slower LPDDR5X technology.
We were thoroughly impressed to see those GPU score differences, indicating that we should see greater numbers from the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 in other tests focused on the same category. It will also be interesting to see how power-efficient Qualcomm’s latest SoC is in these benchmarks, but that will be a comparison for a later time.
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