Qualcomm recently announced the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC, which will be released in November 2022, but there are now reports that the company is planning to release its next processor, possibly dubbed the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. According to a recent report, the new chipset could be released sooner than expected, possibly in the fourth quarter of 2023.

Digital Chat Station, a well-known leaker, recently revealed on Weibo, a Chinese microblogging site, that the next Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC is expected to launch in the fourth quarter of this year, earlier than its predecessor did last year. Despite the fact that it is still several months away from release, the upcoming 8 Gen 3 SoC is expected to deliver better performance while consuming less power.

According to Geekbench scores posted on a Korean tech forum, the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC will provide roughly 25% better CPU performance than the previous 8 Gen 2 SoC.

Although no details or specifications on what improvements Qualcomm is working on have been confirmed, it is certain that the upcoming processor will be built using a 3nm process. The new 3nm process is expected to provide improved performance as well as a 35% improvement in energy efficiency, which will improve battery life.

The upcoming chip will almost certainly support Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon Satellite technology, which was introduced at CES 2023. This technology allows for emergency communication even in the absence of a regular mobile signal and, in the future, basic two-way messaging.

Last week, an alleged single-core and multi-core leak of the regular Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 was published, showing that the SoC destroys the A16 Bionic in both tests and achieves a single-core score of 1,930. Given that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 for Galaxy will most likely have higher CPU and GPU clock speeds, it is not unreasonable to expect the latter to break the 2,000 single-core score barrier when running Geekbench 5.

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