The Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 may be 15% faster than its predecessor, and that’s on top of a 50% bump in graphical performance!
For years, Apple’s homemade SoC silicon that powers the iPhones has been unrivalled — tons of performance, tons of headroom. However, we’ve seen the gap between Apple A-series chips and Qualcomm’s flagship Snapdragon chips get narrower and narrower over the years.
The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is pretty close (but still below) in terms of raw benchmark performance to the Apple A16 Bionic. And when it comes specifically to graphical tests, the Snapdragon can often come out on top. Well, if rumors are correct, Qualcomm’s next generation might equal or finally topple Apple’s silicon.
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OK, first things first to get you up to speed — rumors suggest that we won’t see a Snapdragon 8+ Gen 2.
