For this announcementSnapdragon 8cx Gen 3 vs. Snapdragon 7c+ Gen 3 processorsMiguel Nunes, Qualcomm's vice president of product management, emphasized that although it did not follow the adoption of the Armv9 instruction set architecture, it directly used four Cortex-X4 CPU designs in the performance core and used the Cortex-A1 CPU as an energy-saving core. Combined with the new generation of Adreno GPU display performance, it will be able to exert higher computing power performance.
However, it is not certain whether it is because Qualcomm will resume using a fully independent architecture design in the future that it did not focus too much on design details such as the Kryo CPU this year.
When comparing the processors launched this time to those of competitors, Miguel Nunes stated that they will still be compared with Intel Core i5-class processors and will still target the computing performance needs of the current mainstream market. However, this time, the company is collaborating further with Microsoft on Windows 11, even achieving compatibility with Microsoft's Direct X API. This will allow always-connected PCs using Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 and Snapdragon 7c+ Gen 3 processors to accommodate more Windows platform gaming content.
In addition, in addition to using 4 sets of Cortex-X1 CPUs as performance cores, it also uses the Cortex-A78 CPU as an energy-saving core, paired with the new generation of Adreno GPU display performance, and Snapdragon AIE artificial intelligence applications, combined with 5G network connection. Miguel Nunes emphasized that it can better bring out all aspects of the user experience of a constantly connected PC.
Next, if we go furtherCombined with NUVIA design technology applicationMiguel Nunes expects that the computing performance of the new processor will be able to further reach the Core i7, and even compare with the Core i9 level computing performance of competitors. At the same time, he also emphasized that it can play a greater application value than the Apple Silicon processor launched by Apple.
At the same time, through continued in-depth cooperation with Microsoft, Qualcomm expects to popularize the always-connected PC application experience and create new PC usage models through 5G connectivity.
