Rumor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 will get 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 would be introduced later this year.

According to leaker Kuba Wojciechowski the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip is 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’. That should be the most powerful core for the most compute-intensive tasks. The current Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 already features a single Cortex-X3 core that serves the same function.

The soc also gets five Cortex-A7xx cores, which are split into two separate clusters. One of them will get three ‘gold’ cores and the second cluster will get two ‘titanium’ cores. The titanium cores would possibly get more cache and higher clock speeds. Finally, the chip would have two efficient ‘silver’ Cortex-A5xx cores codenamed ‘Hayes’. Wojciechowski further states that 32-bit support will disappear completely in the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. The chip would also 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 had three more. This would allow Qualcomm to focus more on higher multicore performance. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is rumored to be made on TSMC’s 4nm process, the same process used for the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, but with a heavily modified core array.