Clouds are already over Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC’s Efficiency, and a new report by Golden Reviewer has further unraveled the flaws. While announcing the new SoC, Qualcomm promised a 30% performance increase, but a new report confirms only a 14% increase with 28% more power consumption. The Cortex-X4 CPU is under the scanner and seems to be drawing more pwoer than the expectations.

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Packed inside the Xiaomi 14 Pro, the Chinese Revewiever, Golden Reviewer conducted several tests on the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 which houses a triple cluster design – 1x Cortex-X4 @3.3GHz, 5x Cortex-A720 (3-3.2GHz) and 2x Cortex-A520 @2.3GHz.

With significant hardware improvements, the new Chipset gained huge performance enhancement but drew significant power simultaneously. In a SPECint06 Big Core test, the reviewer measures a 14% performance increase in comparison to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2+, and 22% over the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, 43% with Dimensity 9200, and 59% with Google Tensor G3. All these chipsets pack Cortex-X3 CPU cores.

However, the power consumption is vice versa of its performance compared to the previous SoCs. As per the test, the Snapdragon Gen 3 draws 28% more power than the Cortex-X3 inside the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2+. The power draw further worsens to 75% in comparison with the Cortex-X3 on Snapdragon 8 Gen 2.

The overall efficiency of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 remains at 11.05 Perf/Watt, which is quite alarming in comparison with its predecessors like the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2+ and Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 which offer 12.42 Perf/Watt and 15.92Perf/Watt, respectively.

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