Almost a month after introducing the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 flagship chipset, Qualcomm today announced its most powerful mobile platform yet for midrange devices.

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 is now official, arriving as the Snapdragon 7 Gen 2 Plus‘ successor with the promise to provide more consumers remarkable performance and power efficiency with first-in-tier features such as enhanced AI and better camera capabilities.

And we’ll see it in commercial units soon. According to Qualcomm, the first device powered by Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 is expected to launch later this month. Key original equipment manufacturers that are among the first to adopt the processor include HONOR and vivo. This gives credence to reports that the HONOR 100 series and vivo V30 lineup uses the newly unveiled chip.

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The Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 is built on TSMC’s 4nm process technology and features a 1+3+4 CPU architecture. The Kryo CPU consists of a prime core running at up to 2.63GHz, three performance cores clocked at a maximum of 2.4Ghz, and four efficiency cores operating at up to 1.8GHz.

According to Qualcomm, its latest chipset offers 15% better CPU performance than 2022’s Snapdragon 7 Gen 1. Plus the Adreno GPU is said to deliver more than 50% faster graphics rendering for high-quality HDR gaming. The improved CPU and GPU performance should contribute to around 20% overall power savings.

Find out more about the Snapdragon 7 Gen 3’s specs and features in the product brief below.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 product overview

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