Snapdragon 8 Gen 4's High Performance Core Allegedly Hitting 4.0 GHz

[T0@st]

Digital Chat Station has seemingly received insider information regarding the performance of Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 mobile chipset—their source reports that a probable engineering sample is already exceeding its predecessor's Big core (Cortex-X4) maximum limit of 3.3 GHz. The rumor mill has Nuvia's custom Oryon cores linked to the next generation mobile processor, although some experts think that the Phoenix design was selected for Gen 4. Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite notebook SoC was unveiled last October—this ARM-based solution is set to deliver "a dramatic leap in innovation for computing" thanks to Nuvia's custom Oryon technology. Kedar Kondap, Senior Vice President & General Manager of Compute & Gaming stated that the Snapdragon X Elite offers: "super-charged performance that will delight consumers with incredible power efficiency and take their creativity and productivity to the next level."

Digital Chat Station's brief assessment of the prototype Snapdragon 8 Gen 4's Big core prowess is also glowing: "4.0 GHz is no longer a dream" on smartphones. Past reports have Qualcomm signed up with TSMC for an unspecified 3 nm production process—next generation silicon will benefit greatly in terms of power efficiency, with custom Oryon or Phoenix cores (allegedly) achieving greater clock speeds thanks to some extra headroom. As mentioned above, the previous-gen Kryo Prime core—using TSMC's advanced 4 nm node—is factory restricted to 3.3 GHz. Tipsters reckon that efficiency cores are not part of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 design, due to the innate benefits of 3 nm—according to Digital Chat Station, MediaTek is taking similar steps with its upcoming Dimensity 9400 SoC.



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[phints]

Who cares what clock speed they hit there are so many other factors to performance. Show me a chip that competes/beats the M3 or A17 for mobile ARM performance, both of which have been available since last year, then I'll be impressed.

 

[Ferrum Master]

But Pete said that ARM is not a threat

 

[Minus Infinity]

15W now, nearly 3x my old Exynos 2100.

 

[tommyazz]

Who cares what clock speed they hit there are so many other factors to performance. Show me a chip that competes/beats the M3 or A17 for mobile ARM performance, both of which have been available since last year, then I'll be impressed.

The Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is better than the A17 Pro: better GPU, NPU, and multi-core CPU performance. The A17 Pro wins the single-core CPU test because the performance cores in the A17 have a higher clock.
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