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It’s only been a day since Qualcomm’s official unveiling of its new Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset, and it’s clear that the company has not held back in giving its newest flagship processor all the right ingredients, with the intention of showing rival platforms how it’s done.
As such, we’ve already gotten some new performance comparisons online, which pits the 8 Gen 3 against contemporaries like the Apple A17 Pro Bionic, MediaTek Dimensity, and more. The benchmark results come by way of Nanoreview, which summarizes performance highlights based on several submitted benchmark results across different testing platforms.
Early performance comparisons show that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 was able to slightly dominate Apple’s A17 Pro Bionic chip in terms of single and multi-core processor tests, although the A17 Pro Bionic emerged victorious in terms of battery endurance. For gaming, both chips were neck-and-neck in terms of overall performance.
Against its predecessor, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 was able to outperform the 8 Gen 2 in single and multi-core tests, although interestingly enough the 8 gen 2 had a very slight edge in terms of gaming performance. Battery life was a tie however.
While MediaTek’s upcoming Dimensity 9300 still hasn’t been officially announced, we’ve nevertheless managed to see some early benchmark scores online. The Dimensity flagship SoCs are known for their impressive performance as well, and while both chips in this face-off produced very similar scores, the 8 Gen 3 was able to gain an advantage in terms of battery life, although the Dimensity 9300 emerged one point ahead in gaming.
Against MediaTek’s current market-available chip however, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 was able to dominate its rival in single and multi-core processing, as well as battery life. Gaming performance resulted in a tie however.
It should be interesting to see how the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 fares in real-world performance, especially with its new performance improvements and focus towards on-device AI processing. With that being said, it’s important to note that benchmarks aren’t everything, although they still give useful insight as to what we can expect from an SoC’s performance.
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