11月中旬，手机界将掀起新一轮旗舰机发布风暴

Major smartphone brands have already released their flagship phones and are waiting for the announcement of the new generation processors in order to release a new batch of flagship phones. It is expected that the first batch of new flagship phones will start to be released in November, after all, Qualcomm has scheduled the release of its processor at the end of the month. However, only Qualcomm has officially announced the release of its new generation processor and MediaTek has not yet made any official announcements or promotions, so it will not be until November that MediaTek's new processor will be released. According to leaks, the release dates for the Vivo X100 series and MediaTek's new processor are very close and both are expected to be released in mid-November.

Based on the previous adoption rates of processors, both major chip manufacturers are focusing on the standard version and the adoption rates for the enhanced version are extremely low in the second half of the year, with less than half of those in the first half of the year, such as the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Leading Edition and the Dimensity 9200+ chip. Qualcomm is about to release the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip, which will also be the main chip for the first half of 2024 and has already been exposed to many flagship phones from brands such as Xiaomi, Meizu, and Honor. MediaTek is about to release the Dimensity 9300 chip, but its adoption rate is not expected to be very high. The focus of major mobile phone manufacturers is on Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip.

Qualcomm has already announced that this year's Snapdragon Summit will be held on October 25-26, where the new generation processor, the third-generation Snapdragon 8 chip (also known as Snapdragon 8 Gen 3), will be officially released. As Qualcomm's new generation mobile phone processor, its performance is bound to be improved, with an expected increase of about 30%, which is not very high and is mainly to provide room for development for the enhanced version in the second half of 2024. In fact, the performance improvement of Qualcomm's every generation of mobile phone processors is about 30%, not very high, considering market needs, R&D costs, and future development space.

According to leaks, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip has been redesigned for the CPU architecture, from the previous 1+2+2+3 architecture to the new 1+5+2 architecture. Specific parameters are 1*X4 large core at 3.2GHz, 5*A720 large cores at 3.0GHz, and 2*A520 small cores at 2.0GHz. Compared with the previous generation, the large and extra-large cores have been reduced, and only the small cores have been improved, making the overall CPU performance similar to the previous generation. The GPU has also been updated from the previous Adreno 740 to Adreno 750. Both major improvements are conventional, indicating that the focus is on next year's flagship chips based on the 3nm process.

In addition, according to leaks, the storage speed has also been improved from UFS 4.0 to UFS 4.1 in the previous generation, but LPDDR5 is still maintained at 7500Mbps. The baseband chip has also been upgraded from the integrated X70 in the previous generation to the integrated X75 in the new generation, with an expected 20% improvement in energy efficiency. The running scores of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip have also been exposed, with a single-core score of 1930 points (compared to 1524 points in the previous generation) and a multi-core score of 6236 points (compared to 4597 points in the previous generation), with the largest improvement seen in multi-core performance.

Overall, Qualcomm's flagship chip this time is stable, with only a slight increase in performance, and it uses the 4nm process technology. Next year's new generation processor will be different, with a 3nm process technology and significantly improved performance. According to leaks, MediaTek is preparing to take a curved overtaking maneuver with the upcoming release of the Dimensity 9300 chip, which will directly compete with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip. The key point is that the overall performance of the Dimensity 9300 chip is expected to be even higher than that of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip by more than 10%. At the same time, MediaTek has already announced that it will release a flagship-level processor based on the 3nm process technology in the second half of 2024.

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