TECH NEWS – If the benchmarks of the prototype are real, we can expect a powerful chip from Qualcomm.
According to a rumor, the manufacturer has fired its rockets and could soon unveil the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4. The previous one had an event in October, but the production of the flagship phone with the next generation chip could reportedly start sooner than that, and it follows that we can expect the unveiling sooner than that. According to a post on Weibo, China’s Twitter equivalent, this phone is known to have a dual-curved display and the unique Oryon cores that Qualcomm has been working on for years will show a significant performance boost. We’ll get back to that.
The phone in question could certainly be Xiaomi’s, as the Chinese tech company announced its new devices shortly after the previous chip was unveiled. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 will no longer rely on ARM CPU and GPU designs, so some handset manufacturers (such as Samsung) may be working closely with Qualcomm to find the right balance between performance and power efficiency. The chip will be more expensive than its predecessor, so some manufacturers may skip the upgrade this year (possibly switching to the Density 9400) to avoid a significant drop in profits by 2025. And laptop makers may switch to the Snapdragon X Elite…
The performance of the chip was leaked on Twitter. The company’s first SoC (system-on-a-chip) custom cores are said to be faster than Apple’s M2, and the same is said for the GPU.Now, however, the Geekbench 6 single-core and multi-core benchmark results (2845 and 10628 points respectively) have been released, and it seems that the new model beats the Gen 3 chip (7249 in the Galaxy S24 Ultra) by rounds (46% better performance), and its multi-core performance should rival the M3!
This is probably due to the 2+6 configuration, as the SoC only has Phoenix cores (performance focused).So, like the Dimensity 9300, there will be no efficiency cores, resulting in higher performance AND higher power consumption. TSMC’s 3-nanometer N3E process is used to build the new chip, which showed up in AnTuTu under the codename Pakala (Snapdragon 888 is called Lahaina), but due to the lack of explanation, these could be false results, not Geekbench.The chip is said to run at 4GHz.
None of this is official yet.
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