Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Flagship Chip to Get Two New 6-Core Variants (‘SM8650-Q-AB’ and ‘SM8650-Q-AA’); One of Them Powers an Upcoming Lenovo Tablet (‘TB710FU’) as Revealed Via Geekbench
The American semi-conductor maker – Qualcomm is now revealed to unveil two more new variants of its Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip in addition to the already existing ones. In related news, the Geekbench listing of an upcoming Lenovo tablet reveals that this device will be powered by one of these new Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 variants.
Read more about the latest updates below.
Qualcomm to Release Two New 6-Core Variants for its Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Chip
Qualcomm officially debuted its Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 flagship chip back in October 2023 and so far the brand has released three variants for it with the model numbers of ‘SM8650-AB’, ‘SM8650-AC’, and ‘SM8650-AA’. The ‘SM8650-AB’ is the standard octa-core version with a primary clock speed of 3.30 GHz and after this, the over-clocked octa-core version (‘SM8650-AC’) with a higher primary clock speed of ‘3.39 GHz’ was released initially for the 2024-released Galaxy S24 series as the ‘Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 for Galaxy’ and also as the ‘Leading Version’ for other brands like ZTE and Nubia (ZTE-associated). Following these two, the under-clocked octa-core version (‘SM8650-AA’) with a primary clock speed of 3.05 GHz was also released for the Honor 400 Pro and Honor 300 Ultra smartphones.
As per what has now been revealed, Qualcomm is planning to release two more new variants of its Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip with model numbers of ‘SM8650-Q-AB’ and ‘SM8650-Q-AA’, and unlike the previous ones, these are going to be 6-core editions. The former (‘SM8650-Q-AB’) has an architecture with 3.30 GHz x 1 + 2.96 GHz x 4 + 2.27 GHz x 1 core configuration, whereas the latter has a primary core that is clocked at 3.00 GHz (~ the other cores may be same as that of the ‘SM8650-Q-AB’ variant).
Lenovo ‘TB710FU’ Tablet – Geekbench Listing
The upcoming Lenovo tablet carrying the model number of ‘TB710FU’ has attained Geekbench scores of 1880 points and 4716 points respectively on the single-core and multi-core tests, and its 12GB RAM variant with the Android 15 operating system out of the box has been listed on the benchmark database. As per the Geekbench database, this Lenovo tablet will use Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip ‘SM8650-Q-AB’ variant that has a primary clock speed of 3.30 GHz, and it will be integrated with the same Adreno 750 GPU that is used within the previous variants.
Stay tuned for more updates.
