Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 chipset with various in-device artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities was announced in March this year. Now, Qualcomm has confirmed the arrival of the new 4nm octa-core chipset in India. The upcoming Poco F6 5G will be the first smartphone in the country to pack the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 SoC under the hood. The Poco F series phone will launch on May 23 and is confirmed to go on sale via Flipkart.
Both Poco and Qualcomm on Tuesday (May 14) confirmed that the Poco F6 5G will be the first smartphone powered by the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 chipset in India. Other smartphone brands such as Motorola, Xiaomi and Realme have already launched smartphones with the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 chipset in global markets outside India. The Realme GT Neo 6, Redmi Turbo 3, Motorola Edge 50 Ultra, iQoo Z9 Turbo and Xiaomi Civi 4 Pro are powered by this 4nm chipset.
The Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 SoC is a 4nm octa-core chipset with a main core running at up to 3.0GHz, four performance cores with a maximum clock speed of 2.8GHz, and three d 'efficiency at 2.0 GHz. The chipset's Adreno GPU supports HDR gaming along with real-time hardware-accelerated ray tracing. It supports up to 24GB of LPDDR5x memory up to 4200MHz and UFS 4.0 storage. It supports more than 30 generative AI models on the device, including Gemini Nano, Llama 2 and Baichuan-7B.
Poco earlier this week announced that Poco F6 5G will launch in India on May 23 at 4:30 PM IST. It will be available for sale through Flipkart. It is expected to arrive as a rebrand of the Redmi Turbo 3 that was launched in China in April with a starting price of CNY 1,999 (roughly Rs. 23,000).
The Poco F6 5G is expected to be a rebranded Redmi Turbo 3. If this is true, it will come with a 6.7-inch 1.5K (1,220×2,712 pixels) OLED display, a dual rear camera unit with a 50-megapixel Sony. LYT-600 sensor and an 8-megapixel ultra-wide-angle camera and a 20-megapixel front camera. It could pack a 5,000mAh battery with support for 90W fast charging.
