Qualcomm's next flagship chipset, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, which will power most next-generation top Android smartphones, will be a huge performance jump over the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, per a new rumor.
Qualcomm's next chip is expected to feature custom Arm cores designed by the company itself. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 is likely to have a different core arrangement than last year and drop the efficiency cores. Rumors say it will have two big cores and six medium cores and it will be based on TSMC's 3nm process.
Though most reports have been saying that the chip will benchmark a lot higher than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, scores achieved by an engineering sample indicated that it might not be that big of a jump over its predecessor.
Chinese leaker Digital Chat Station (via Notebookcheck) has allayed those fears by saying that the engineering prototype was powered by a low-frequency version of the chip.
He claims that cores in the latest version of the chip run at between 3.6GHz and 4.0GHz. The tipster has also leaked benchmark scores for the chip.
Apparently, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 scored around 2,700 on the single-core test, and 10,000 on the multi-core test. Though that's a huge improvement when compared to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3-poweredGalaxy S24 Ultra's scores of 2,187 and 6,669, it still doesn't completely beat the iPhone 15 Pro Max, which got single and multi-core points of 2,958 and 7,288, respectively.
Anam Hamid is a computer scientist turned tech journalist who has a keen interest in the tech world, with a particular focus on smartphones and tablets. She has previously written for Android Headlines and has also been a ghostwriter for several tech and car publications. Anam is not a tech hoarder and believes in using her gadgets for as long as possible. She is concerned about smartphone addiction and its impact on future generations, but she also appreciates the convenience that phones have brought into our lives. Anam is excited about technological advancements like folding screens and under-display sensors, and she often wonders about the future of technology. She values the overall experience of a device more than its individual specs and admires companies that deliver durable, high-quality products. In her free time, Anam enjoys reading, scrolling through Reddit and Instagram, and occasionally refreshing her programming skills through tutorials.
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