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Finally, After a long wait, Qualcomm launched the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset.

This newly launched chipset can handle impressive AI tasks on the fly, like expanding photos, generating backgrounds and even removing objects from videos. The flagship platform is built on the 4nm process and has a clear focus on AI, gaming, audio and camera advancements. It supports features like night vision video capture, Dolby HDR photo capture, and 5G Advanced.

Faster than 8 Gen 2 Chipset:

The Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 comes with the usual upgrades you’d expect from a new generation of this chip family.This chipset is 30% faster and 20% more efficient than Gen 2. The eight-core processor inside is highlighted by 1 Cortex-X4 prime core running up to 3.3 GHz, five performance cores at up to 3.2 GHz, and 2 efficiency cores clocked up to 2.3 GHz. The 30% leap is especially impressive considering that the previous iteration was ‘only’ around 15% faster than its predecessor.

There's LPDDR5x memory support up to 4800 MHz and as much as 24 GB. The chip supports Wi-Fi 7 up to 6 GHz, including 802.11be, 802.11ax, 80211ac, and 80211a/bg/n. The chip features the X75 5G modem with both sub-6 GHz and mmWave antennas. AI is front and center in the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. It all starts with the AI Engine, which supports multi-modal generative AI models and popular large language models for speech recognition - the chip can run up to 20 tokens per second for instant AI assistant responses.

Qualcomm boasts that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 packs the world's fastest stable diffusion, which can generate an image in a fraction of a second.

Qualcomm's Sensing Hug securely accesses your personal data like favorite activities, fitness level, and location to give better AI assistant responses.AI enhances the camera abilities as well. Semantic Segmentation can enhance the vibrancy and detail of images in real-time, while Night Vision video can brighten a dark scene. There's an object eraser for videos that can remove unwanted objects or people, Vlogger's View, which can capture both video from your selfie and rear camera. Photo Expansion can use generative AI to extend an image beyond the original captured data, and there's naturally some improvement to HDR.

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GPU:

The GPU inside the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is 25% faster, 25% more power efficient, and brings 40% better Ray Tracing.

Powerhouse for Gaming🎮:

The Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is also a powerhouse for gaming, with support for global illumination with ray tracing and Unreal Engine 5 with lumen. The chip can handle gaming at a staggering 240 FPS on 240Hz displays, even as these are yet to be seen on any smartphone. And of course, the Adreno GPU under the hood has been improved by 25% in both speed and efficiency.The Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 can deliver 'console-defying' gaming with 240 fps support on 240 Hz displays. Adreno Frame Motion Engine 2.0 can generate frames for smoother playback, and there's Unreal Engine 5.2 support.

Audiophiles will be glad to know that the new chip can deliver 24-bit 96 kHz lossless music over Bluetooth.

Specifications:

⏩ Wi-Fi:

Wi-Fi/Bluetooth System: Qualcomm® FastConnect™ 7800

Peak Speed: 5.8 Gbps

Generation: Wi-Fi 7, Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 5, Wi-Fi 4

Standards: 802.11be, 802.11ax, 802.11ac, 802.11n, 802.11g, 802.11b, 802.11a

Spectral Bands: 6 GHz, 5 GHz, 2.4 GHz

Channels: 320 MHz

Peak QAM: 4K QAM

Features: TDLS, Passpoint, High Band Simultaneous (HBS) Multi-Link, Wi-Fi Optimized Connectivity, MU-MIMO (UL/DL), Wi-Fi Aware R3, Wi-Fi QoS Management, Miracast, Wi-Fi Location, OFDMA (UL/DL), Voice-Enterprise, XPAN Technology.

⏩ Bluetooth:

Specification Version: Bluetooth® 5.4

Connection Technology: Bluetooth® Low Energy.

⏩ Camera:

Image Signal Processor (ISP) Name: Qualcomm® Spectra™

Image Signal Processor (ISP) Type: Hardware Accelerator for Computer Vision (CV-ISP), Cognitive ISP (Cog ISP), Image Signal Processor (ISP)

Image Signal Processor (ISP) Number: Triple ISP

Image Signal Processor (ISP) Bit Depth: 18-bit

Triple Camera (MFNR, ZSL, 30 fps): 36 MP

Dual Camera (MFNR, ZSL, 30 fps): 64+36 MP

Single Camera (MFNR, ZSL, 30 fps): 108 MP

Single Camera: 200 MP

Features: Mega Low light photography, AI-based auto-exposure, AI-based auto-focus, AI-based face detection, Engine for Visual Analytics 3.0, Multi-frame Noise Reduction (MFNR), Locally Motion Compensated Temporal Filtering (MCTF), Real-time Semantic Segmentation, Truepic photo capture

Video Capture: 8K 30fps or 4K 120fps video capture

Slow Motion Video Capture: 720p @ 960 fps

Video Capture Formats: Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG), Dolby Vision®, HDR10, HDR10+, Google Ultra HDR

Video Capture Features: 4 exposures (with QDOL image sensors), Engine for Visual Analytics 3.0, Video super resolution, Computational HDR with staggered imaged sensors, Bokeh Engine (version 2), Real-time Semantic Segmentation

Video Playback

Resolution: 8K @ 60 fps

Codecs: H.265 (High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC)), HDR10, Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG), Dolby Vision®, HDR10+, H.264 (Advanced Video Coding (AVC)), VP8, VP9, AV1

Features: HDR Vivid

Availability:

Qualcomm says devices powered by the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 will be available in the coming weeks. The chipmaker has partnered with many smartphones manufacturing companies including iQOO

Source: Qualcomm, Gsmarena.

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