Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 With Up to 31 Percent Boost in CPU Performance, Adreno 825 GPU Launched

Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 was launched on Wednesday, and Qualcomm’s successor to final yr’s Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 delivers notable enhancements in CPU, GPU, and synthetic intelligence (AI) efficiency. Unlike the Snapdragon 8 Elite, this chip is manufactured utilizing TSMC’s 4nm course of expertise. It is predicted to reach on gaming focussed smartphones, and provides assist for {hardware} accelerated ray tracing. The Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 additionally helps on-device multimodal and multilingual generative AI. The new platform offers Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6.0 connectivity.

Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 Availability Timeline

iQOO has confirmed that the upcoming iQOO Z10 Turbo might be geared up with the brand new Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 chip. It can also be anticipated to reach on upcoming smartphones from Meizu, Oppo, and Xiaomi within the coming weeks or months.

The new Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 chip is predicted to energy gaming smartphones which can be extra inexpensive than flagship handsets which can be geared up with Qualcomm’s top-of-the-line Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC.

Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 Specifications

Unlike the Snapdragon 8 Elite, which is produced utilizing TSMC’s 3nm course of expertise, the brand new Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 is a 4nm chip. The chipset has Arm reference cores, as a substitute of Qualcomm’s customized Oryon ones. It contains one Arm Cortex-X4 core (3.2GHz), three Cortex-A720 cores (3.0GHz), two Cortex-A720 cores (2.8GHz), and two Cortex-A720 cores (2.0GHz). The chipset helps as much as 24GB LPDDR5x RAM and UFS 4.0 storage.

The chipmaker claims that the Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 delivers as much as 31 p.c improved CPU efficiency as compared with its predecessor, the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3. It can also be geared up with a brand new Adreno 825 GPU, which helps on-device ray tracing assist and is alleged to supply a 49 p.c bounce in GPU efficiency over the earlier era.

The Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 is provided with an up to date Hexagon NPU, which delivers as much as 44 p.c improved efficiency when dealing with on-device AI duties, based on Qualcomm. Like final yr’s chipset, the Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 options an 18-bit triple Spectra picture sign processor, with assist for as much as three 36-megapixel cameras (or one 320-megapixel digital camera).

Smartphones geared up with the Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 can sport as much as WQHD+ (3,840×1,600 pixels) shows with a variable refresh charge that ranges between 1Hz and 240Hz. Connectivity choices on the Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 embrace 5G (Sub-6, not mmWave), 4G LTE, Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6.0, GPS, Glonass, BeiDou, Galileo, QZSS, and NavIC. It additionally helps USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C connectivity. The Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 helps Quick Charge 5, which was first launched in 2020, and helps 100W (or sooner) charging speeds.