Qualcomm announced on Monday its latest and first "8s" series flagship mobile platform, the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3, with the goal of enabling on-device generative AI capabilities on more Android smartphones. Major Android OEMs such as Honour, iQOO, realme, Redmi, and Xiaomi have confirmed that they will launch Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 smartphones in the coming weeks. The Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 supports major large language models such as Baichuan-7B, Llama 2, and Google's Gemini Nano, and the processor can handle on-device AI models with up to 10 billion parameters. "With capabilities including on-device generative AI and advanced photography features, Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 is designed to enhance user experiences, fostering creativity and productivity in their daily lives," said Chris Patrick, senior vice president and general manager of mobile handsets at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. The on-device AI engine supports generative-AI-powered virtual assistants, image generation, and multi-modal gen-AI models. Smartphones powered by the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 processor can also provide experiences such as on-device photo expansion, and the AI powers the camera capabilities, which are powered by an 18-bit triple cognitive ISP.
Qualcomm AI Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 Technical Specifications
The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 is an octa-core processor with one prime core clocked at 3GHz, four performance cores clocked at 2.8GHz, and three efficiency cores clocked up to 2GHz. The processor is built on TSMC's 4nm process and includes the latest Adreno GPU. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 differ primarily in terms of CPU clock speed, networking capabilities, graphics, and AI capabilities. Qualcomm also confirmed that the graphics performance of the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 is comparable to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 and the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. The Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 supports real-time hardware-accelerated ray tracing, but not Global illumination, as the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 does. The Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 features the Snapdragon X70 5G Modem-RF System, which supports downlink speeds of up to 5Gbps. The chip supports Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4. The processor is capable of handling displays with up to 4K resolution at 60fps or 2K resolution at up to 144Hz.
It also supports up to 200 MP cameras; however, it does not support 8K video recording, only 4K 60fps HDR. There is fast UFS 4.0 support, as well as up to 24 GB of LP-DDR5x RAM with a maximum speed of 4200MHz.
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