Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Chip Appeared on Geekbench Listing with New 1+5+2 architecture before the October launch
Qualcomm officially confirmed the launch of the sixth annual Snapdragon Tech Summit from October 24th to 26th Globally. Now, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is listed on Geekbench as running on a Nubia phone with model number NX769J revealing Android 14 and 12 GB of RAM, which should be a prototype unit rumored to be Red Magic 9.
It discloses benchmark scores of 1596 for single-core performance and 5977 for multi-core performance, which are lower than previous leaks that indicated 2233 for single-core and 6661 for multi-core performance on what was claimed to be the Galaxy S24+.
According to the leaker Digital Chat station, these scores are preliminary and may change in the final version. The information also indicates that the chip comprises 2 cores running at 2.27 GHz, 5 cores at 2.96 GHz, and 1 core at 3.19 GHz.
In line with earlier speculations, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 (SM8650) SoC is expected to adopt a new "1+5+2" architecture, as opposed to the "1+2+2+3" configuration in the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. This change is intended to deliver a more robust performance core with a higher clock frequency and will utilize the TSMC N4P manufacturing process. The chip is reported to incorporate 1 Cortex-X4 prime core, 5 A720 performance cores, 2 A520 power efficiency cores, and an Adreno 750 GPU.
The Adreno 750 GPU is rumored to receive substantial performance enhancements compared to the Adreno 740, boasting a 10MB L3 cache instead of the predecessor's 8MB L3 cache.
According to previous speculations, the Xiaomi 14 series is set to be the first to adopt the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC when it launches in November. Additionally, the vivo X100 series, iQOO 12 series, Redmi K70 Pro, OnePlus 12, Red Magic 9 series, and more are expected to feature this chipset.