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      Qualcomm’s “Snapdragon 8s Gen 3” cuts down the company’s flagship SoC

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Monday, 18 March - 17:07 · 1 minute

    The promo image for Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 chip.

    Enlarge / The promo image for Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 chip. (credit: Qualcomm)

    Qualcomm's newest smartphone SoC is the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 . Years of iPhone "S" upgrades might lead you to assume this was a mid-cycle refresh to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, but Qualcomm says the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 is a " specially curated " version of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. That means it's a slightly slower, cheaper chip than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, which is still Qualcomm's best smartphone chip.

    The older, better Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 has a core layout of one 3.3 GHz "Prime" Arm Cortex X4 core, five "medium" A720 cores (three at 3.2 GHz, two at 2.0 GHz), and two "small" 2.3 GHz A520 cores for background processing. This new "S" chip swaps a medium core for a small one, for a 1+4+3 configuration instead of 1+5+2. Everything is clocked lower, too: 3 GHz for the Prime core, 2.8 GHz for all the medium cores, and 2 GHz for the small cores.

    The modem is downgraded to an X70 instead of the X75 in the 8 Gen 3 chip. That theoretically means a lower max download speed (5Gbps instead of 10) but since you would actually need to be granted those speeds by your carrier, It's not clear anyone would ever notice this. It also sounds like the X70 is more power-hungry, since it only has "Qualcomm 5G PowerSave Gen 3" instead of "Qualcomm 5G PowerSave Gen 4" on the flagship chip. We don't think Qualcomm has ever given a technical explanation of what this means, though. The SoC is still 4nm, just like the 8 Gen 3. Video maxes out at 4K now instead of 8K.

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      Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 : faut-il opter pour un smartphone avec cette puce ?

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Monday, 18 March - 15:07

    Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

    Qualcomm surprend en présentant un nouveau SoC haut de gamme, le Snapdragon 8s Gen 3. Une version « s » de sa puce phare qui mise sur l'IA.
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      Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 : la nouvelle puce dédiée à la VR s’invite au CES

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Saturday, 6 January - 08:30

    Snapdragon Xr2+ Gen 2

    Qualcomm compte bien faire de l'ombre à Apple avec une puce dédiée au spatial computing en "réalité étendue".
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      Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 : tout savoir sur la puce des smartphones abordables de 2024

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Friday, 17 November - 15:30

    Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

    Après le Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, Qualcomm est déjà de retour pour officialiser le Snapdragon 7 Gen 3. Le SoC de milieu de gamme se destine à des mobiles plus accessibles, mettant l'accent sur les fonctions intelligentes et l'efficacité énergétique.

    Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 : tout savoir sur la puce des smartphones abordables de 2024

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      Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 promises 30 percent faster CPU

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Tuesday, 24 October, 2023 - 19:00 · 1 minute

    Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 promises 30 percent faster CPU

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    Qualcomm's Nuvia-designed Arm chip for PCs is easily the company's most exciting announcement today, but it also announced a phone chip: the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. This will show up in most flagship Android devices in 2024 and promises around 30 percent performance improvements while picking from Arm's parts bin.

    First up is a new "1:5:2" core arrangement. Instead of the usual one big core, three medium cores, and four small cores (for single-threaded performance, multi-core, and background processing, respectively), the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 has one big core, five medium cores, and two small cores. Qualcomm says the big core is a 3.3 GHz Arm Cortex X4 but didn't confirm any of the other CPU core model numbers. Those five medium cores don't all run at the same frequency, with three running at 3.2 GHz and two at 3.0 GHz. The CPU performance claims are 30 percent faster and 20 percent more efficient. The chip is built on a 4 nm process.

    Qualcomm is always light on the GPU details (even though it is one of the strengths of a Qualcomm chip), and this year, the Adreno GPU doesn't even have a model number in the documentation Qualcomm sent over. It is supposed to be 25 percent faster and 25 percent more efficient, though. Qualcomm talked up the lighting capabilities of the chip for video games, with support for Unreal Engine 5 Lumen and better ray tracing.

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      Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite looks like the Windows world’s answer to Apple Silicon

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Tuesday, 24 October, 2023 - 19:00 · 1 minute

    Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite could be the first Arm chip that can do for PCs what Apple Silicon did for Macs.

    Enlarge / Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite could be the first Arm chip that can do for PCs what Apple Silicon did for Macs. (credit: Qualcomm)

    For years, Qualcomm has been making Snapdragon chips for Windows PCs, and for years, those chips' performance have failed to dislodge Intel's or AMD's chips to any significant degree. Its latest Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 (and the closely related Microsoft SQ3) appears in just two consumer PCs, the cumbersomely named Microsoft Surface Pro 9 with 5G and Lenovo's ThinkPad X13s Gen 1 .

    But that may be changing. Nearly three years ago, Qualcomm bought a company called Nuvia for $1.4 billion. Nuvia was mainly working on server processors, but the company's founders and many of its employees had also been involved in developing the A- and M-series Apple Silicon processors that have all enabled the iPhone, iPad, and Mac to achieve their enviable blend of performance and battery life. Today, Qualcomm is formally announcing the fruit of the Nuvia acquisition: the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite is a 12-core, 4 nm chip that will compete directly with Intel's Core processors and AMD Ryzen chips in PCs—and, less directly, Apple's M2 and M3-series processors for Macs.

    Qualcomm says the Snapdragon X Elite will begin arriving in PCs starting in mid-2024. The company has also announced a new Snapdragon SoC for smartphones, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 .

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      Snapdragon X : la puce de Qualcomm qui veut rivaliser avec Apple

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Friday, 13 October, 2023 - 16:44

    snapdragon-x-qualcomm-158x105.jpg Snapdragon X Qualcomm

    La concurrence s'organise face aux fameuses puces Silicon d'Apple. Qualcomm vient d'officialiser sa nouvelle plateforme Snapdragon X.

    Snapdragon X : la puce de Qualcomm qui veut rivaliser avec Apple

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      Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 : que peut-on attendre de la puce ?

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Friday, 9 June, 2023 - 15:30

    snapdragon-summit-2023-snapdragon-tech-event-158x105.jpg Snapdragon Summit 2023

    La prochaine puce phare de Qualcomm se distingue déjà. Disponibilité, performances, smartphones... on fait le point sur ce qui nous attend.

    Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 : que peut-on attendre de la puce ?

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      Le Snapdragon 7+ Gen 2 est officiel : voici pourquoi vous allez l’adorer

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Friday, 17 March, 2023 - 14:00

    qualcomm-snapdragon-7-gen-2-soc-158x105.jpg Qualcomm Snapdragon 7+ Gen 2

    Qualcomm vient d’officialiser le Snapdragon 7+ Gen 2, un SoC destiné aux smartphones milieu/haut de gamme. Les promesses sont grandes dans tous les domaines qui comptent.

    Le Snapdragon 7+ Gen 2 est officiel : voici pourquoi vous allez l’adorer