The Adreno 740 of the current generation may be 50% less powerful than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 GPU.

An individual posting on Chinese blog site Weibo has revealed that Qualcomm's upcoming Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 mobile chipset is expected to have impressive graphical capabilities. The Adreno "750" smartphone and tablet GPU is predicted to offer a 50% improvement over the current Adreno 740, which is featured on the recently released Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset. The current top-of-the-range Snapdragon outperforms Apple's Bionic A16 SoC in graphics benchmarks.

The Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC is set to launch in Q4 2023, but there is no information yet on the flagship devices it will power. The tipster suggests that Qualcomm has chosen to stick with TSMC's 4 nm process for its next generation mobile chipset, which may be a conservative decision given that Apple is reportedly using TSMC's 3 nm process for its Bionic A17 SoC. However, TSMC is said to be struggling with its N3 production line. Qualcomm's engineers in San Diego are said to be experimenting with increased clock speeds running on the next-gen Adreno GPU, potentially as high as 1.0 GHz, in order to achieve the best possible performance and beat the Bionic A17 in graphics benchmarks. The tipster believes that Qualcomm will still struggle to match Apple in terms of pure CPU throughput, so the company's focus will be on creating a superior GPU for the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3.