Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Lite or Snapdragon 8s Gen 3: whatever the moniker, this mystery SoC could be in a new Realme phone

In early February, we told you about a mysterious duo of Qualcomm's upcoming Snapdragon chipsets with model numbers SM8635 and SM7675, respectively.

Now, the SM8635 has been spotted in a new Realme phone listed on Geekbench (via 91 laptops). This phone has the model number Realme RMX3851 and the Geekbench listing suggests the rumored Snapdragon SM8635 chipset.

Technical details show that the unnamed Realme RMX3851 could come with Android 14 and 16 GB of RAM. The chipset, nicknamed “pineapple”, alludes to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 – “pineapple” was a nickname linked to the current cutting-edge chipset found in many flagships. “His official nickname is not yet known but it could be Snapdragon 8 generation 3 Lite or 8s Gen 3 SoC. The chipset is paired with Adreno 735 GPU and a maximum clock speed of 3.01 GHz. It also reportedly scored around 1.7 million on AnTuTu,” the report read. On Geekbench, the upcoming Realme device with the Snapdragon SM8635 chipset has 1512 points in the single-core test and 3799 in the multi-core test.

As we said earlier, the SM8635 is expected to power the Poco F6, which was initially expected to use the Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3. Other phones suspected of using the mystery chip include the Redmi Note 13 Turbo and an iQOO Neo series . phone on the way.