Samsung Galaxy S24 Plus with Snapdragon 8 generation 3 appeared on Geekbench
Geekbench test results of the Samsung Galaxy S24+ phone show the power of the Snapdagon 8 Gen flagship chip. 3 – Snapdragon 8 represents the 3rd generation. This chip will be far more powerful than Snapdragon 8 generation 2.
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 generation 2 chip was unveiled with a strange arrangement of processing cores. This chipset uses a prime core, 2+2 high performance cores and 3 optimized cores.
Recently, the first benchmarks of the next generation of these chips, Snapdragon 8 generation 3, have been released in the Geekbench 6.1.0 test and indicate interesting changes in the arrangement of its cores.
More precisely, in the new generation, Qualcomm will remove one of the optimal cores and instead add a high-performance core! In addition, high-performance cores will have different speeds than before.
Snapdragon 8 Gen. 3 to be more precise, it will use a prime core clocked at 3.3 GHz and will have three high-performance cores clocked at 3.15 GHz. In addition, two high-performance secondary cores that will have a lower clock speed of 2.96 GHz, along with two optimized cores with a speed of 2.27 GHz will make up this powerful chip.
Snapdragon chip
Samsung's Galaxy S24+ and Geekbench's great score thanks to the Snapdragon 8 generation 3 chip
The following table will provide a better comparison between the technical specifications of Snapdragon 8 generation 2 and generation 3 chips.
Snapdragon 8 generation 3 Snapdragon 8 generation 2
Core Prime A Cortex X4 core with a clock speed of 3.3 GHz A Cortex X3 core with a speed of 3.2 GHz (3.36 GHz in the Galaxy version)
High performance core (1) Three Cortex A7xx cores with a speed of 3.15 GHz Two Cortex A715 cores with a speed of 2.8 GHz
High performance core (2) Two Cortex A7xx cores with a speed of 2.96 GHz Dual core A710 with a clock speed of 2.8 GHz
Optimal core Two Cortex A5xx cores with a speed of 2.27 GHz Cortex A510 triple core with a speed of 2.0 GHz
As can be seen from the table above, in the current generation of Qualcomm's flagship chips, we see the use of two different types of cores (A715 and A710) with the same clock speed.
Meanwhile, the Snapdragon 8 generation 3 chip uses two different clusters with unspecified cores, but different speeds.
ARM has just unveiled the Cortex X4, A720 and A520 cores. Therefore, if new cores are not introduced until the next generation of Qualcomm chips, probably the same models will be used in the Snapdragon 8 generation 3 chipset.
The ideal arrangement of ARM at the time of the introduction of these cores was 1+5+2 or 1+(3+2)+2.
The X4 core will be about 15% more powerful and 25% more efficient with the same power consumption compared to the previous generation.
Of course, it was previously expected that the X4 core used in the Snapdragon 8 generation 3 chipset could reach a speed of 3.4 GHz. However, it seems that at least in the normal version of this chip, there will be no news of this clock speed!
The images below show a comparison of the performance of the Snapdragon 8 Gen chipset. It provides 3:
Performance comparison of Snapdagon 8 Gen. 3 and Gen. 2
Will the prime core of the Snapdragon 8 generation 3 chip be able to reach the speed of 3.7 GHz?
Previously, there were also many rumors about the possibility of the new Qualcomm chip reaching a maximum speed of 3.7 GHz. That's certainly impressive for a battery-powered chip that uses a passive cooling system.
However, it seems unlikely that TSMC's new architecture, known as N4P, will be able to achieve such speeds.
The recent benchmark presented of the performance of the Snapdragon 8 Gen chip. 3, despite being compiled in the early stages of testing and finalizing the design of this chip, it indicates that Qualcomm and TSMC have not yet been able to achieve this clock speed.
Snapdragon 8 generation 3
Of course, this benchmark is still able to provide detailed information about the performance of the Snapdragon 8 Gen chip. 3 is not; Because it is possible that activating a certain mode of the device's performance, such as Performance Mode, in some gaming phones may have caused the score of this phone to be shown higher.
In addition, it is not clear whether these results are related to the standard version of Qualcomm's next-generation chip or the Galaxy-specific version of this device!
It is good to know that Samsung will apparently continue the exclusive contract to produce more powerful flagship chips for its products in 2024.
Even if the full power of the Snapdragon 8 generation 3 chipset is what is shown in this table, we still see a significant improvement in its performance compared to the previous generation.
In particular, the single-core performance of this chip has been improved by about 12% compared to before; While multi-core performance has been associated with an increase of 26%.
The single-core performance of this chip is still behind Apple's A16 chipset ; But its multi-core performance is a little ahead.
Of course, the main competitor of Snapdragon 8 generation 3 chipset will be Apple's A17 chip, not A16! On the other hand, Apple has announced the acquisition of 3 nm technology to produce the next generation of its chips. So it seems as of now, Apple has the upper hand compared to Qualcomm.
It is expected that Qualcomm will launch its Snapdragon 8 generation 3 chip at the end of October and we will see the unveiling of the Samsung Galaxy S24 series early next year.