Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 flagship-grade chipset with on-device artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. Let’s check the specifications below.
Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 specifications
The all-new Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 is a 4nm octa-core chipset with a Prime core (Cortex-X4) clocked at 3.0GHz, four ‘performance’ cores with a peak clock speed of 2.8GHz, and three ‘efficiency’ cores clocked at 2.0GHz.
The Adreno GPU onboard the chipset offers support for HDR gaming along with real-time hardware-accelerated ray tracing in supported games, according to the company. It will support up to 24GB of LPDDR5x memory at up to 4200MHz and UFS 4.0 storage.
List of smartphones powered by the new SoC
- realme GT Neo6 series (Snapdragon 8s Gen 3, Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3)
- Redmi Note 13 Turbo (Snapdragon 8s Gen 3)
- Xiaomi Civi 4 series (Snapdragon 8s Gen 3)
- OnePlus Ace 3V (Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3)
- vivo Pad 3 (Snapdragon 8s Gen 3)
- iQOO Neo9 series new machine (Snapdragon 8s Gen 3)
Qualcomm also touts the AI capabilities of the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 chip, which offers support of on-device generative AI models with up to 10 billion parameters — the chip supports over 30 large language models (LLMs) and large vision models (LVMs) at launch, including Gemini Nano, Llama 2, and Baichuan-7B. The company says that an on-device generative AI assistant will be able to generate content from written, spoken, or image prompts, while a photo expansion tool can generate images outside an image’s frame using AI.