Seems so. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 benchmarks that dropped yesterday with the Samsung S24 Ultra put it on par or above Apple's A17 Pro or whatever their most high end phone SoC is.
Single core still lags way behind. Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 has same single core at a 3 year old A15.
They are staying even / besting apple in multicore through adding more cores than apple does.
To be fair, Geekbench is a relatively poor representation of real world performance. It's heavily used since it's one of the few benchmarks that works across all major platforms and architectures, making comparisons easy, but not necessarily realistic.
This is regarding reference CPU designs from ARM. Qualcomm plans to use the Oryon cores from their Nuvia acquisition.
Yes, Qualcomm Oryon is tied with Apple A17/M3 although it's coming out 9-16 months later.
The 0ryon hasn't come out yet, so it's hard to tell what's really happening with it.
Can we really make confident predictions for chips that are a year out from release?