Overview - Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Vs Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 vs Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoCs by Qualcomm. We've now weighed the advantages and disadvantages of these 8-core CPUs on the basis of their Geekbench, Antutu and 3DMark benchmarks with their technical specifications.

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Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 46
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 91
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 48
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 96
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 86
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 60
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 91
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Snapdragon 8 Gen 3
CPU 249768 495720
GPU 448381 914123
Memory 172528 361002
UX 166045 338475
Total score 1036722 2109320
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 has 3.90% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 (800 vs 770 MHz).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 has 10% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 (3300 vs 3000 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 has 50.00% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 (4800 vs 3200 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 has 103.46% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 (2,109 K vs 1,037 K ).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Support 50.39% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 (77 vs 51.2 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 1221
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 2329

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 3589
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 7526

Image compression

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 180.6
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

Face detection

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 25.25
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 54.7
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 56.95
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 28
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 3
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

SQLite

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 989.1
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

3DMark

Stability 88%

Graphics test 54 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K @ 60 Hz,QHD+ @ 144 Hz 4K Ultra HD @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 3840 x 2160
  • Max External Display 4K @ 60 Hz 8K @ 30 Hz
  • HDR HDR10+, HDR10 HDR Vivid, HDR10, HDR10+
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit 10-bit
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 Rec. 2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

79%
Turbo Clock Speed

3000 MHz

87%
Turbo Clock Speed

3300 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

103%
Base Frequency

2260 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 3 GHz Cortex-X2
    3x 2.5 GHz Cortex-A710
    4x 1.8 GHz Cortex-A510
    1x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X4
    3x 3.15 GHz – Cortex-A720
    2x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A720
    2x 2.26 GHz – Cortex-A520
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv9-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache 1 MB -
  • L3 cache 4 MB 12 MB
  • Process 4 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP - -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 730 Adreno 750
  • Architecture Adreno 700 Adreno 700
  • GPU frequency 800 MHz 770 MHz
  • Execution units 3 -
  • Shading units 768 -
  • FLOPS - -
  • Vulkan version 1.1 -
  • OpenCL version 2 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 3200 MHz 4800 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 77 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 24 GB 24 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR5X
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon Hexagon
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 UFS 4.0
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 64MP 1x 200MP
  • Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem Snapdragon X65 Snapdragon X75
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 7
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.4
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

CPU
46%
GPU
48%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

CPU
91%
GPU
96%
Memory
56%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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