Leaked Qualcomm document allegedly discusses 4nm and 3nm variants of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC
A lower process node means a smaller feature set which means smaller transistors. With smaller transistors, more can fit inside the small space inside a chip allowing it to be more powerful and energy-efficient. As a result, there should be more transistors in the 3nm variant of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC than found in the 4nm variant.
We could see two variants of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3
Unlike 2022, when the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 replaced the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, the leaked documents indicate that both variants of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 will be unveiled at the same time. This should take place on October 24th at the Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii. It is not clear whether the second variant of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 will use the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 3 moniker.
To reiterate, both variants of the chipset will have the exact same configuration. The only difference between the two will be the process node used to build each component. And this doesn’t seem to include the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 for Galaxy which should be an overclocked version of the 4nm chip.
