New Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Benchmark Shows Major Gains Over Predecessor But Still Trails iPhone's A17 in Single-Core

New Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip has 1 prime core, 5 performance cores, and 2 efficiency cores with clock speeds up to 3.3 GHz.

First benchmarks based on Qualcomm reference device with 6.65" 1080p 144Hz display, 24GB RAM, 512GB storage.

Single-core CPU performance lags behind Apple A17 Pro, but multi-core is faster. Up to 57% boost over predecessor.

AnTuTu score beats iPhone 15 Pro Max, particularly thanks to much improved GPU performance.

Overall huge gains in CPU and GPU power compared to previous Snapdragon chips.