2024-03-18 01:30:00
This Monday, (18), Qualcomm presented its new mobile platform aimed at top-of-the-line cell phones. The Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 arrives to bring more generative AI, photography and gaming features to the user.
The chipset stands out for supporting advanced generative AI features, an always-on sensor ISP, hyper-realistic mobile games, next-generation connectivity and lossless high-definition sound.
“With capabilities including on-device generative AI and advanced photography features, the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 is designed to improve user experiences, fostering creativity and productivity in their daily lives. We are proud to introduce the latest addition to our premium Snapdragon 8 series, our most advanced mobile offering, bringing a host of specially curated exceptional capabilities to more consumers.”
Chris Patrick
Senior Vice President and General Manager of Mobile Devices at Qualcomm Technologies
Generative AI
In the generative AI segment, the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 stands out for providing resources directly from the device and at high speed. In total, there are up to 10 billion parameters in the category.
Smartphones equipped with Qualcomm’s new platform will be able to run both assistants and an image creation tool, which uses Artificial Intelligence technology.
According to the company, the chip supports a broad list of AI models, including the popular large language models (LLM). The compatible list includes Baichuan-7B, Llama 2 and Gemini Nano.
Cmera
The Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 features a triple 18-bit Cognitive ISP. It allows a series of functionalities to enhance the user experience in photography. Among them, the use of the call Always-Sensing Camera in a double way, that is, you can take advantage of up to two sensors that are always active to facilitate facial recognition and other features, without large energy consumption.
Other possibilities are photo expansion and semantic segmentation, which also take advantage of AI resources for the process. Furthermore, there is the Snapdragon Low Light Vision (LLV), as a tool to improve images captured at night.
To top it off, there is support for 8K recordings with HDR at 30 fps, in addition to 64 MP photo capture. You can also film in 4K at 120 fps or in 720p at 960 fps – the latter for slow motion.
Gaming
In terms of gaming, the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 comes with an Adreno GPU with two main new features, compared to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. One of them consists of real-time hardware acceleration for Ray Tracing with global illumination.
Another change consists of compatibility with Unreal Engine 5 Lumen Global Illumination resources and the reflection system, to make game images hyper-realistic.
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Availability
The Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 is expected to reach commercial devices in the coming months. The first is expected to be announced this March 2024. The brands already confirmed that will have models with the hardware include Honor, iQOO, realme, Redmi and Xiaomi.
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