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- Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 processor for smartphones.
- This chipset features the same CPU tech as the top-shelf Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, but uses last year’s flagship GPU.
- Phones with the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 are expected to launch later this month.
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is one of the most cutting-edge smartphone processors on the market today. What if you want this experience in a cheaper package? Well, that’s where the newly announced Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 comes in.
This new Snapdragon processor is still a flagship-tier chipset, and it actually has a few features in common with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. We’ve got the same CPU layout, for one, featuring one Cortex-X4 big core, four medium Cortex-A720 cores, and three little Cortex-A520 cores. However, these cores have reduced clock speeds, topping out at 3GHz, 2.8GHz, and 2GHz respectively.