The significant improvements brought to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, especially on the GPU side, meant that Apple’s A-series of chipsets were finally facing long-awaited competition from the Android camp. However, Qualcomm may one-up the competition this year, according to a tipster, as the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 GPU is said to be 50 percent faster than its predecessor.

Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 GPU’s performance gains might stem from the fact that Qualcomm is rumored to be testing the unit at much higher frequencies

On Weibo, Digital chatter hints that A17 Bionic may not be the fastest smartphone chipset from a graphics performance standpoint as he states that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 GPU will be 50 percent faster than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2’s Adreno 740. However, the tipster did not provide evidence or additional information on how Qualcomm would make performance difference possible. Unlike Apple, the San Diego chipmaker is said to stick with TSMC’s 4nm process instead of making a jump to N3, and that decision will naturally have some consequences.

For one thing, TSMC’s N3 process is said to be extremely power-efficient, meaning that if the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 was mass produced on a next-generation node, Qualcomm could have easily raised the power target of the SoC to get more performance out of it. Since the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is said to be fabricated on the same 4nm process as the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, Qualcomm has limited options on its hands, so it will likely resort to some extensive tweaking.

According to an earlier rumor, the company was said to be testing the Adreno 750 GPU at a clock speed of 1.00GHz, making its frequency 45 percent higher than the Adreno 740’s clock speed of 689MHz. However, raising those speeds is detrimental due to immense heat generation, so the obvious question is how Qualcomm intends to keep temperatures in check. It looks like we might have to wait for an update from Digital chatter in the coming weeks.

So far, we know that Qualcomm will choose an entirely different CPU configuration for the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. The company is rumored to introduce ‘titanium’ coresfor the first time in history. However, we also reported that the firm was testing the same SoC with the Adreno 750 GPU running at 770MHz, not 1.00GHz, so obviously, there is a misalignment of information going on, which will hopefully be addressed sometime in the near future. We personally want a better-performing GPU from the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, but not at the expense of battery life and uncontrollable heat generation.

News Source: Digital chatter