The first benchmarks of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen4 really give hope for the performance of the San Diego giant’s next generation chip. Thanks, in all likelihood, to the gods new Oryon Cores developed by Qualcommwhich will be used for both the Snapdragon 8 Gen4 and the Snapdragon X Elite.
With a post about Twitterin fact the Snapdragon UK account has revealed that Qualcomm’s next mobile SoC will be among the company’s first chips to mount the CPU Core Custom Oryon, developed internally by the company. The news comes via a short video, filmed and released by Chief Marketing Officer by Qualcomm Don McGuire.
McGuire also explained that the NPU of the Snapdragon 8 Gen4 will be significantly improved compared to that of the current generation chip, defining the component as “a great evolution for our NPU history”. As if that wasn’t enough, according to some old leaks, the Snapdragon 8 Gen4 will be 3nm and will not have any E-Core, focusing on a composite configuration solely from Core Oryon owners.
According to what WCCFTech reports, it Snapdragon 8 Gen4 will arrive at 4.30 GHz of frequency in boost, against the 3.30 GHz of the Snapdragon 8 Gen3: the jump would once again be thanks to the Oryon Cores and, according to the international portal, should put the new generation chip on par with the frequencies of the Snapdragon X Elite, Qualcomm’s SoC for laptops . According to the leaker Negativeoneherothe Cores of the Snapdragon 8 Gen4 should be able to reach this clock with a single core consumption equal to 10 W.
Unlike the Snapdragon X Elite, which should be able to maintain similar performance even for quite a long time, it Snapdragon 8 Gen4 will have to progressively reduce the frequencies after a certain period of time to avoid overheating. In other words, the chip will be able to maintain 4.30 GHz only for a short time – probably during the most intense gaming sessions – and then return to oscillating around 3.80 GHz. All unless some smartphones with liquid cooling on the market: the latter, however, they are still at a conceptual stage and their mass production still seems far away.
Also there Snapdragon 8 Gen4 GPU, which should be an Adreno 830, should be on par with that of the Snapdragon X Elite (and therefore also with Apple’s M2 chip). In all likelihood, a “basic” version of the component will be implemented on the smartphone chip, while on the PC SoC we will find one with a slight overclockwhich will guarantee slightly greater performance.