This is the first phone
with the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3. Yes, this is the Xiaomi Civi 4 Pro
it launched in China about a month ago and we had to get it because we wanted
to see what this new processor offers. But after running the benchmarks,
and testing the performance of the phone, the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 is not
what you think it is, it’s something completely different.
Let me explain. First of all, we need to understand
why Qualcomm needed a new processor? See, the 7 Gen 3 and 7+ Gen 3 cover
the
mid-range market, and the 8 Gen 3 covers
the flagship segment. So, Qualcomm needed a chipset for phones
in the affordable flagship segment, you know, the 40 to 50K price range where you normally find phones
with last year’s flagship chipset. That’s where the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
is supposed to come in. Okay, so if we take a look
at the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3’s core setup, we get 1 Cortex-X4
prime core clocked at 3GHz, 4 Cortex A720 performance
cores clocked at 2.8GHz, and 3 Cortex A520 efficiency
c
ores clocked at 2GHz. In comparison, these are the core setups of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and the 7+ Gen 3 And as you can see, the setup of the 8s Gen 3 is exactly
the same as the 7+ Gen 3 so, it’s basically a higher-clocked version
of the 7+ Gen 3 processor, and not an under-clocked version
of the flagship 8 Gen 3. Now, apart from the core setups, here are all the differences between
the 8s Gen 3, 8 Gen 3, and 7+ Gen 3 so you can see
what’s changed here, and what remains basically the same. We a
lso ran some benchmarks on this phone
and if you look at the scores, the 8s Gen 3 performs slightly better
in most cases than the 7+ Gen 3, and is similar to the 8 Gen 2, but not anywhere near the 8 Gen 3,
obviously. In Antutu in fact,
it scores worse than the 7+ Gen 3 but that could be due to the thermals
of the Civi 4 Pro, because the phone was reaching 48 to
50 degrees when we ran the benchmarks. We couldn’t run 3DMark on this phone because it just doesn’t work
on Chinese phones with HyperOS.
We also did the CPU throttling test
and the 8s Gen 3 performs really well here, throttling to only 94%
of its peak performance, just like the 8 Gen 3, which is impressive
when compared to the 7+ Gen 3, or the 8 Gen 2’s throttling results. The point is, the 8s Gen 3
is basically a marketing term. It’s supposed to come to India in phones like the Poco F6 and by calling
it “8s” Qualcomm makes it seem like that this
is an 8 series processor, that should perform at almost
the same level as in 8 Gen
3, or the Dimensity 9300.
However, that’s clearly not the case It's basically 7+ Gen 3 with slightly
boosted clock speeds and a better GPU. Infact this should have been called
a 7+ Gen 3 Pro, or 7+ Gen 3 Pro Plus or something but it’s definitely
not an 8 series chipset. If we keep the name aside for a bit, this new processor is definitely capable. In real world performance
the 8s Gen 3 holds up really well, and in gaming it performs almost the same as the 8 Gen 3 or the 7+ Gen 3, be it in BGMI,
where it supports
Ultra HDR+Ultra graphics, and 60FPS in Smooth + Extreme mode,
or in Genshin Impact, where it gets 60FPS at Highest settings. And if you’re wondering,
this phone support 90FPS in BGMI, and that maybe because the phone
hasn’t launched in India. Anyway, we do see a slight difference
in the performance in COD Mobile, where the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 performs
a tad better than the 8s Gen 3, but it’s quite close in everything else. So ya, it’s clearly a capable chipset. Look, it’s just a
matter of “naming”. I mean, if Qualcomm stuck
with a name like 7 Gen 3 Pro, it would have still felt like
a mid-range processor in a more expensive phone. In fact this happened last year
with the 7+ Gen 2, that came in India in just one
phone - the Poco F5. While all the other manufacturers stuck
with the 8+ Gen 1 as there choice of chipset because more and more users want
“8 series” processor in there phones. This year, by calling this processor
an 8s Gen 3, they’ve made it sound more like
a f
lagship chipset, even though it’s just an overclocked
Snapdragon 7 series chipset. Therefore a lot of people
are likely to accept this chipset in a 40-50K range smartphones. So, is this misleading
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