It’s the second day of the three-day Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit 2023 in Hawaii, and today, Qualcomm has revealed more about its Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 mobile platform for Android flagship smartphones. Specifically, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 has achieved performance that is more than 200% better than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 unveiled less than 2 years ago.

Today, Qualcomm showcased the shocking performance of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 through 5 popular benchmarking tools which are respectively Antutu v10 benchmark, Geekbench 6, 3DMark Wild Life Extreme, 3DMark Solar Bay, and AI Mark. 

Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Antutu Score (Source: Qualcomm)

In Antutu benchmark, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 achieved a record-breaking score of 2,139,281, as it is the first chipset officially launched to cross the 2 million mark in Antutu benchmark. For reference, Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 devices only scored less than 1 million in Antutu, and our team at Gizmochina compiled a table below to show the performance improvements of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 against its predecessors like the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1.

SoCAntutu ScorePerf. ImprovementDevice
Snapdragon 8 Gen 32,139,281233 % fasterSnapdragon Reference Device
Snapdragon 8 Gen 21,478,024161 % fasterSamsung Galaxy S23
Snapdragon 8+ Gen 11,311,539143 % fasterXiaomi Poco F5 Pro
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1919,222–Samsung Galaxy S22
Table 1: Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 vs Previous Generations (Leo Wong De Quan / Gizmochina)

As seen above, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 has achieved a 233 % performance improvement over the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 in Antutu, making it more than twice as powerful as the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1.

Moving onto other benchmarks, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC scored in Geekbench 6 with a multi-core score of 7501 and a single-core score of 2329. In 3DMark Wild Life Extreme, it scored 5338 on the gaming benchmark test. In 3DMark Solar Bay, the SoC reached a score of 8597, and only ran as hot as 39 degrees Celsius on its 3rd run of Solar Bay. Lastly in AI Mark, Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 scores 240,147 points, ranking first in the benchmark, beating all the other 99% of devices in the smartphone industry.

Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Geekbench scores (Source: Qualcomm)
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 3DMark Wild Life Extreme scores (Source: Qualcomm)
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 3DMark Solar Bay scores (Source: Qualcomm)
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 AI Mark scores (Source: Qualcomm)

It is clear that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 has achieved remarkable record-breaking performance, and that upcoming Android flagships sporting the chip will be amongst the best in the industry with smooth and fast performance. The Xiaomi 14 is launching today October 26 as the first smartphone in the world to sport the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset. To know more about the Xiaomi 14, stay tuned to our coverage here at Gizmochina.

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