Blogger Digital chat site revealed that Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen3 uses 1+5+2 architecture design. Compared to the Snapdragon 8 Gen2, the former has one more large core and one less small core, and the superlarge core has been upgraded to Cortex X4.
The Cortex X4 has a 15% increase in peak performance compared to the previous X3, and uses 40% less power than the X3 for the same performance. In terms of footprint, the X4 is only about 10% larger than the X3, and it also supports up to 2M of L2 cache.
It is worth noting that the other major change to the Cortex X4 architecture is that the new architecture is only 64-bit. The AArch32 has been abandoned, meaning that Arm will move to a pure 64-bit architecture after this date, which has been long anticipated.
In terms of frequency, the super-large core frequency of Snapdragon 8 Gen3 is up to 3.7GHz. Compared with 3.36GHz of Snapdragon 8 Gen2, the former once again improves the peak performance of super-large core, and the GPU is upgraded to Adreno 750.
To see such a high frequency, we must also know that the Snapdragon 8 Gen3 is still by Taiwan Semiconductor manufacturing, process upgrade to N4P, although not using more advanced N3 process, but N4P in the performance of N4 increased 6%.
Meanwhile, N4P is better than N4 by reducing the number of cladding layers to reduce the complexity of the process and improve the chip production cycle. It is also more cost – and production-friendly than N3.
Devices powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen3 will debut later this year, and the Mi 14 will be one of the first Snapdragon 8 Gen3 models.