for ‘flagship lite’ smartphones, Qualcomm is back this week with a new mobile platform for the upper premium midrange segment. The Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3, built on TSMC’s 4nm process, is the tech giant’s most powerful 7-series processor yet and also brings with it support for generative AI, a first for this series.
The Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3 though is markedly less powerful in the graphics department compared to the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3. While the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 already lost global illumination in games compared to the full Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, the Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3’s Adreno GPU also loses out on hardware ray tracing and AV1 decoding altogether. It will still support up to QHD+ resolutions and 120Hz refresh rates though of course, with support for faster LPDDR5X 4200MHz memory and UFS 4.