Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 on-device with support for generative AI, 200-megapixel camera support launched

Qualcomm announced the launch on Monday Snapdragon 8s Gen 3The company’s latest flagship-grade chipset is equipped with several on-device artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. The new 4nm chipset comes as a more affordable version of the top-of-the-line Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip that was launched in October last year and sits above the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, the company’s flagship chip from 2022. . It offers something. Hardware features from the company’s flagship processor, as well as support for high-speed generative AI models with 10 billion parameters.

Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 Availability Timeline

The company says that the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 mobile platform will be available on smartphones from companies such as Honor, iQoo Redmi, Realme and Xiaomi. Qualcomm also revealed that the first handset powered by the latest chipset will be available later this month, but did not reveal any further information regarding the phone or its specifications.

Features of Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

The newly unveiled Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 is a 4nm octa-core chipset with a Prime Core (Cortex-X4) clocked at 3.0GHz, four ‘Performance’ cores with a peak clock speed of 2.8GHz, and three ‘Efficiency’ cores. ‘ cores are clocks. According to the 2.0GHz company, the Adreno GPU on the chipset provides support for HDR gaming as well as real-time hardware accelerated ray tracing in supported games. It will support up to 24GB of LPDDR5x memory at 4200MHz and UFS 4.0 storage.

Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 supports more than 30 on-device generative AI models.
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Qualcomm also touts the AI ​​capabilities of the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 chip, which provides support for on-device generative AI models with 10 billion parameters – the chip supports more than 30 language models (LLMs) and large vision models (LVMs). ) is supported. Launch, incl Gemini Nano, Lama 2, and Baichuan-7B. The company says an on-device generative AI assistant will be able to generate content from written, spoken or image gestures, while a photo enhancement tool can use AI to create images outside of the photo frame.

Smartphones equipped with the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 will be able to capture 200-megapixel photos, and the chipset has a triple 18-bit ISP setup. The chip also supports AI-based facial recognition enabled by an always-on sensing ISP via the Qualcomm Sensing Hub. The company’s Snapdragon Low Light Vision (LLV) technology is said to improve the quality of videos taken in dim environments.

Qualcomm says the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 supports 4K and Quad-HD+ displays at 60Hz and 144Hz respectively. The chipset also supports an ultra-low-power always-sensing camera that is said to be isolated from the rest of the phone’s hardware and enables instant facial unlocking of the handset.

The new chipset features the Snapdragon X70 5G Modem-RF system (a step down from its more premium sibling) and supports both mmWave and Sub-6 5G networks. It offers Dual SIM Dual Active (DSDA) support for 5G and 4G networks and has download speeds of up to 5Gbps and upload speeds of up to 3.5Gbps.

The Qualcomm FastConnect 7800 mobile connectivity system on the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 offers download speeds of up to 5.8Gbps over Wi-Fi 7 networks. The chip also supports Bluetooth 5.4 connectivity via dual Bluetooth antennas, with support for Snapdragon Sound, Bluetooth LE Audio, Oracast Broadcast, and Qualcomm’s aptX audio codecs.

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