Overview - Snapdragon 888 Vs Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 888 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.

Features

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Snapdragon 888 43
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 91
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 888 38
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 96
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 888 82
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 888 54
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 91
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 888 Snapdragon 8 Gen 3
CPU 211734 495720
GPU 306250 914123
Memory 133870 361002
UX 156641 338475
Total score 808495 2109320
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

  • Snapdragon 888 has 9.09% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 (840 vs 770 MHz).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 has 16.2% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 888 (3300 vs 2840 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 has 50.00% higher memory frequency than Snapdragon 888 (4800 vs 3200 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 has 20% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 888 (4 vs 5 nm).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 has 160.89% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 888 (2,109 K vs 808 K ).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 888.
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Support 50.39% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 888 (77 vs 51.2 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 888 1126
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 2329

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 888 3681
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 7526

Image compression

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Snapdragon 888 177.1
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

Face detection

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Snapdragon 888 26.5
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 888 67.7
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 888 59.9
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 888 37.5
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 888 3.96
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

SQLite

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Snapdragon 888 1060
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

3DMark

Stability 91%

Graphics test 30 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K Ultra HD @ 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 Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG), HDR10+, Dolby Vision®, HDR10 HDR Vivid, HDR10, HDR10+
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit 10-bit
  • Color Gamut Rec. 2020 Rec. 2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

75%
Turbo Clock Speed

2840 MHz

87%
Turbo Clock Speed

3300 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

103%
Base Frequency

2260 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 2.84 GHz – Kryo 680 Prime (Cortex-X1)
    3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 680 Gold (Cortex-A78)
    4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 680 Silver (Cortex-A55)
    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 ARMv8.4-A ARMv9-A
  • L1 cache 512 KB -
  • L2 cache 1 MB -
  • L3 cache 4 MB 12 MB
  • Process 5 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count - -
  • TDP 10 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 660 Adreno 750
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Adreno 700
  • GPU frequency 840 MHz 770 MHz
  • Execution units 2 -
  • Shading units 512 -
  • FLOPS 1720 Gigaflops -
  • Vulkan version 1.1 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • 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 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 780 Hexagon
  • Storage type UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 UFS 4.0
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP 1x 200MP
  • Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 30FPS 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 X60 Snapdragon X75
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 22 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 888

CPU
43%
GPU
38%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

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