Qualcomm publishes benchmarks of Snapdragon 8 Gen 3
How does the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 measure up and perform? Would it unlock new levels of power for 2024 smartphones?
To answer that, Qualcomm has provided some benchmark numbers based on a Qualcomm Reference Design phone containing SD8G3, giving us a glimpse of the synthetic numbers it can manage.
Before we publish Qualcomm’s results, here’s a quick overview of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 mobile platform’s system (this bit will also help to inform our future smartphone reviews).
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 CPU, GPU, NPU and other specs
The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is built on a 4nm process, by TSMC.
The CPU subsystem features a nine-core Kyro CPU layout that claims 30% increase in performance and 20% better power efficiency improvements over its predecessor. The cores are laid out in a 1+5+2 format, with one large core for peak performance scenarios, five middle cores with two different clockrates, and two efficiency cores for low-power or simple tasks:
1x Cortex-X4 at 3.3GHz3x A720 at 3.2GHz2x A720 at 3.0GHz2x A520 at 2.3GHz
The SD8G3 also features an Adreno GPU for graphics processing, and it’s said to offer a 25% performance increase and a 25% improvement in power efficiency over its predecessor.
The NPU also offers 98% improved AI performance with 40% better performance per watt.
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 benchmark results by Qualcomm
Here are the synthetic benchmark numbers from Qualcomm. The results are based on a Qualcomm Reference Design phone of their own make (6.65-inch 1080p AMOLED with 144Hz refresh rate, 4,192mAh battery, 24GB of LPDDR5x RAM at 4.8GHz, 512GB of UFS 4.0 storage).
(For reference, you can look at its predecessor's performance here, or via our past phone reviews. The benchmarks we've published are only a small portion of the full list provided by Qualcomm).
| Benchmark name | Score | What's it for? |
|---|---|---|
| Geekbench 6 (single-thread) |
2,320 to 2,329 |
CPU performance |
| Geekbench 6 (multi-thread) | 7,439 to 7,526 | |
| AnTuTu v10 | 2.13 million to 2.14 million | Generic (all performances and tasks combined) |
| PCMark for Android (Work 3.0) | 21,125 to 21,628 | |
| GFXBench, Aztec Ruins, Vulkan (Normal Tier), 1080p | 238 to 241 | Graphics, gaming, and GPU performance with variable workloads and different rendering conditions |
| GFXBench, Aztec Ruins, Vulkan (High Tier), 1440p | 93 to 96 FPS | |
| GFXBench, Aztec Ruins, OpenGL (High Tier), 1440p | 82 to 83 FPS | |
| 3DMark, Wild Life Extreme | 32 FPS | |
| 3DMark, Wild Life | 114 – 115 FPS | |
| 3DMark, Solar Bay | 32 – 33 FPS | |
| Jetstream 2 | 238 to 241 | Web browsing and web element performance |
| Speedometer 2.1 | 309 to 311 | |
| WebXPRT3 v2.93 | 309 to 310 |
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