The Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is Qualcomm’s most powerful smartphone chip until the 8 Gen 4 arrives later this year. It’s a 4nm octa-core chip built by TSMC using its cutting-edge advanced manufacturing technologies.
The chipset features one Cortex-X4 prime core, five Cortex-A720 performance cores, and two Cortex-A520 power efficiency cores. It has a 3.3 GHz maximum clock speed and features an Adreno 750 GPU for a smooth gaming experience. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is already powering many high-end devices from Xiaomi, Samsung, OnePlus, Oppo, and other brands.
Here, I’ll show you how the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip performs on popular benchmarks, such as AnTuTu, Geekbench, 3DMark, and more.
[Note: The following benchmark tests have been conducted on the OnePlus 12, powered by Snapdragon 8 Gen 3.]
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 AnTuTu Score
AnTuTu is a popular benchmarking platform that runs a device through a series of tests that measure different aspects of its performance, such as CPU, GPU, memory, and UX. The combined score represents the overall performance of a device.
Here’s how the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip performs on AnTuTu (V10):
| AnTuTu V10 | Result |
|---|---|
| CPU | 3,70,873 |
| GPU | 7,50,494 |
| Memory | 3,50,215 |
| UX | 2,81,744 |
| Total score | 17,53,326 |
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Geekbench Score
Geekbench evaluates a device’s performance through a series of tests designed around practical scenarios. The tests include image processing, compression (text & image), speech recognition, and PDF rendering, to name a few.
Here’s how the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 performs on Geekbench (V6):
| Geekbench 6 | Result |
|---|---|
| Single core | 2,130 |
| Multi core | 6,175 |
The benchmarking platform outputs single-core and multi-core scores. The single-core score reflects the device’s performance when a single core is used, and the multi-core score is the performance when multiple cores are at work.
We also tested the device on Geekbench for its OpenCL and Vulkan performance, which are two different APIs used for handling graphics and computing tasks. Here’s how it performed:
| Geekbench 6 | Result |
|---|---|
| OpenCL score | 14,362 |
| Vulkan score | 16,447 |
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 3DMark Score
3DMark is a popular benchmarking platform for evaluating the graphics performance of a device. It has various benchmarking methods, such as Wild Life, Wild Life Extreme, Steel Nomad Light, and Solar Bay, to test various capabilities of a GPU.
Let’s look at the scores for Snapdragon 8 Gen 3:
| 3DMark | Score | Average FPS |
| 3DMark Wild Life | Maxed Out | Maxed Out |
| 3DMark Wild Life Extreme | 4,494 | 26.91 |
| 3DMark Steel Nomad Light | 1,683 | 12.47 |
| 3DMark Solar Bay | 8,221 | 31.26 |
- 3DMark Wild Life: It uses a variety of non-ray traced workloads to examine the GPU capabilities.
- 3DMark Wild Life Extreme: It’s an enhanced version of the Wild Life test designed for high-performance devices.
- 3DMark Steel Nomad Light: It focuses on graphics tests that simulate game-like workloads without ray-tracing.
- 3DMark Solar Bay: This test evaluates how well a device can handle ray tracing workloads.
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Burnout Benchmark
The Burnout benchmark is helpful in determining how well a device can sustain performance under heavy workloads and how efficiently it utilizes power.
Here’s how Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 performs:
| Burnout benchmark | Result |
|---|---|
| Performance under throttling | 59.0% |
| Performance per watt | 509 |
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Spec Sheet
| SD 8 Gen 3 Specs | |
|---|---|
| Release date | October 2023 |
| Process node | 4nm |
| Manufacturer | TSMC |
| Cores | 8 |
| CPU architecture | 1 x Cortex-X4 @ 3.3 GHz 3 x Cortex-A720 @ 3.15 GHz 2 x Cortex-A720 @ 2.96 GHz 2 x Cortex-A520 @ 2.27 GHz |
| GPU | Adreno 750 770 MHz frequency Snapdragon Elite Gaming Hardware Accelerated Ray Tracing |
| NPU | Hexagon NPU |
| Camera | 18-bit Spectra Triple ISP 200MP single camera 108MP camera with ZSL 64MP+36MP dual cameras with ZSL 36MP+36MP+36MP triple cameras with ZSL *ZSL = Zero Shutter Lag |
| Memory | LPDDR5X RAM 4200 MHz frequency |
| Storage | UFS 4.0 |
| Media decode | H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9 |
| Connectivity | Snapdragon X75 5G modem Downlink: 10 Gbps Uplink: 3.5 Gbps Wi-Fi 7, Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 5, Wi-Fi 4 Bluetooth 5.4, LE Galileo, Beidou, NavIC, GPS, GLONASS, QZSS |
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