Rumor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 will have four clusters and Adreno 750 GPU

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip will reportedly have four clusters in a 2+3+2+1 configuration. The chip would also be equipped with an Adreno 750 GPU with a maximum clock frequency of 770 MHz. The chip is expected to be introduced later this year.

According to leaker Kuba Wojciechowski the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip will be codenamed ‘Lanai’ or ‘Pineapple’. The chip would have four clusters with a total of eight cores. One of these will have a single powerful Cortex-X core codenamed ‘Hunter ELP’. This should be the most powerful core for the most computationally intensive tasks. The current Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 already features a single Cortex-X3 core that serves the same function.

The SoC also has five Cortex-A7xx cores, which are split into two separate clusters. One of them will have three ‘gold’ cores and the second cluster will have two ‘titanium’ cores. The titanium cores might get more cache and higher clock speeds. Finally, the chip is said to have two efficient ‘silver’ Cortex-A5xx cores codenamed ‘Hayes’. Wojciechowski further states that 32bit support will disappear completely in the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. Furthermore, the chip would be equipped with an Adreno 750 GPU with a maximum clock frequency of 770MHz.

The CPU configuration shows that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 uses less energy-efficient A55 cores than its predecessor, which still had three. Qualcomm would therefore focus more on higher multi-core performance. Rumor has it that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 will be made on TSMC’s 4nm process, the same process used for the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, but with a heavily modified core setup.