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A photo of SoC chips Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, 8s Gen 3 and Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 has appeared on the Internet. This is a comparative photo that allows you to clearly see the difference between these platforms.
It’s worth starting with the banal — sizes. Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 has an area of 77.8 mm2, Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 is expectedly larger — 89.54 mm2. However, the difference is small and amounts to only 15%, which is very little considering the huge difference in performance. Let's remember that in AnTuTu Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 scores on average 2.2 times more points than Snapdragon 7 Gen 1.
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 looks unexpectedly large against this background. Its area is already 137.32 mm2, that is, 53% more than its predecessor! At the same time, the performance of the new SoC is only 37% higher. This is a lot, but significantly less than the increase in crystal area.
As you can clearly see in another photo, apparently a significant part of the increase in area is accounted for by the GPU. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 has a much larger graphics core. In addition, it contains exactly twice as many computational units. Actually, in AnTuTu the main part of the difference between platforms also falls on the GPU, and there the increase reaches approximately 50%.