Sources say the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip will be released earlier this year.

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen South China Wu Yanzu for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com February 18 news, Qualcomm released Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip in November last year, based on TSMC 4nm process. This year, there may be Snapdragon 8+ Gen 2 chips, which will have stronger performance. Qualcomm may also skip the launch of the Plus SoC, but will launch the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip later this year.

Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip peak frequency is 3.2GHz, Samsung Galaxy S23 series Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 overclocked version peak clock speed is 3.36GHz. Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chips, expected to launch this year, will deliver better performance while reducing power consumption.

CTOnews.com understands that Snapdragon 8 flagship chips are usually launched in Q4 every year, which was previously early December and moved up to November 16 last year. Recently, Weibo blogger @ Digital Chat Station said that this year's Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip will also be released early (expected to be in late October or early November 2023). However, the mobile phone scheduling of each manufacturer is still Q4 quarter.

Details of Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chips are unclear. According to the exposure score, the CPU performance of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip will be 25% higher than that of the Snapdragon 8 series SoC. Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 for Galaxy chip scored 1930 for single core and 6236 for multiple cores in Geekbench early testing.

It is reported that Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 for Galaxy will adopt 1+5+2 core configuration, one more energy efficiency core than the current Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy 1+4+3 setting. Thanks to TSMC's N4P process node, its energy efficiency may be 20% higher than Snapdragon 8 Gen 2.