This year, a lot of high-end smartphones are anticipated to run on the new chipset. Qualcomm claims that Xiaomi, Honor, iQOO, Realme, and Redmi are among the OEMs whose smartphones will employ the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 processor. It's important to remember that Realme and iQOO are subsidiaries of BBK Electronics, whereas Redmi is a Xiaomi subbrand. Honor used to be a part of the Huawei conglomerate, but it is reportedly a separate business now. SoC is for budget flagship

Numerous Chinese OEMs will use the new chipset into their "flagship killer" devices.

A new smartphone processor from Qualcomm is targeted at high-end smartphones and offers flagship-level performance and features at a comparatively low cost. The business debuted the new processor, known as the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3, five months after revealing the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC, which powers the great majority of top Android smartphones released this year, such as the OnePlus 12 and the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra (US version).



Reusing many of the features that made the 8 Gen 3 such a popular processor, the 8s Gen 3 is a slightly scaled-down version of the latter. To begin with, it shares the flagship's TSMC 4nm platform and offers improved camera processing, on-device generative AI processing, the newest connection options, and lossless high-definition sound.

With one Cortex-X4 prime core clocked at 3GHz, four Cortex-A720 high-performance cores clocked at up to 2.8GHz, and three Cortex-A520 efficiency cores rated at 2GHz, the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 has an octa-core CPU in a 1+4+3 configuration. That is one fewer high-performance core than the CPU found in the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, which has a 1+5+2 configuration, for those who are keeping score. 

                                      

The flagship chipset's maximum clock rates are marginally higher than those of the new chipset's prime and high-performance cores.
Qualcomm stated that the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 enables real-time hardware-accelerated ray tracing, however it did not identify the GPU. Among other things, the GPU supports 10-bit HDR gaming, Qualcomm's Snapdragon Game Super Resolution, and the Adreno Frame Motion Engine. In terms of the modem, Qualcomm is sticking with the Snapdragon X70, which is older, rather than the Snapdragon X75, which is featured in the 8 Gen 3.

This year, a lot of high-end smartphones are anticipated to run on the new chipset. Qualcomm claims that Xiaomi, Honor, iQOO, Realme, and Redmi are among the OEMs whose smartphones will employ the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 processor. It's important to remember that Realme and iQOO are subsidiaries of BBK Electronics, whereas Redmi is a Xiaomi subbrand. Honor used to be a part of the Huawei conglomerate, but it is reportedly a separate business now.