Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 chipset with several on-device artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities was Poco F6 5G will be the first smartphone in the country to feature the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 SoC under the hood. The Poco F-series phone will be launched on May 23 and it is confirmed to go on sale through Flipkart.
Both Poco and Qualcomm on Tuesday (May 14) Xiaomi Civi 4 Pro run on this 4nm chipset.
The Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 SoC is a 4nm octa-core chipset with a prime core running at up to 3.0GHz, four performance cores with a peak clock speed of 2.8GHz, and three efficiency cores clocked at 2.0GHz. The Adreno GPU of the chipset s HDR gaming along with real-time hardware-accelerated ray tracing. It s up to 24GB of LPDDR5x memory at up to 4200MHz and UFS 4.0 storage. It s more than 30 on-device generative AI models including Gemini Nano, Llama 2, and Baichuan-7B.
Poco earlier this week announced that Poco F6 5G will be launched in India on May 23 at 4:30pm IST. It will be available for sale via Flipkart. It is expected to arrive as a rebrand of Redmi Turbo 3 which was released in China in April with a starting price tag of CNY 1,999 (roughly Rs. 23,000).
The Poco F6 5G is expected to be a rebranded Redmi Turbo 3. If that's true, it will come with a 6.7-inch 1.5K (1,220x2,712 pixels) resolution 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 carry a 5,000mAh battery with for 90W fast charging.