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Over the past few weeks, we have seen Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 in several benchmark listings across multiple platforms. It has been putting up a good fight against MediaTek’s Dimensity 9300 and Samsung’s Exynos 2400. Someone has now pitted it against Apple’s A17 Pro, the chip that powers the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max. The new Snapdragon held up strong in this battle too, outperforming the Apple chip in multi-core tests.
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 gives a tough fight to A17 Pro
In this benchmark face-off, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 scored 2,207 points in single-core tests and 7,494 in multi-core tests. The A17 Pro scored 2,846 and 7,024 points in the two tests, respectively. As you can see, the latter won the single-core battle but the Qualcomm solution fought back strongly and came up at the top when all CPU cores were put to use. This bodes well for the next-gen Android flagships, such as the Galaxy S24 Ultra.
That said, Qualcomm has yet to announce the new chip. The firm will unveil it during the Snapdragon Summit 2023, which kicks off later today in Maui, Hawaii. The Xiaomi 14 series is expected to debut the chip later this month. This benchmark test used the unreleased Xiaomi phone as well. Time will tell whether the end product delivers a similar performance as this test device. The A17 Pro’s test run was conducted using the iPhone 15 Pro Max.
The disparity in single-core and multi-core scores of the two chips looks reasonable when we dive deeper into their CPU configuration. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 has eight CPU cores in a 1+3+2+2 setup. It features one prime core operating at a maximum frequency of 3.30GHz, three mid-cores running at 3.15GHz, two more mid-cores clocked at 2.96GHz, and two efficiency cores clocked at 2.27GHz.
The Apple A17 Pro, on the other hand, sports six CPU cores in a 2+4 configuration. It has two prime cores running at 3.78GHz and four efficiency cores operating at 2.11GHz. Since its prime cores are faster than the Qualcomm chip, it offers better single-core results. The tide turns in favor of the latter when it comes to multi-core tests thanks to more CPU cores. A face-off between devices powered by the two chips will be interesting to watch.
Samsung’s Galaxy S24 Ultra will use the new Snapdragon globally
The Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 will power the next-gen Android flagships coming later this year and deep into 2024. Samsung‘s Galaxy S24 Ultra is one of the highly-anticipated devices with this chip. The Korean firm will ship the phone with the new Snapdragon processor globally. The other two models will use the Exynos 2400 in some markets. Samsung is expected to launch the Galaxy S24 series in January 2024.