Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 Touted for Mass Production in Q3Y24

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Qualcomm and its smartphone manufacturer partners are reported to be in a rush to get the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chipset released later this year—Digital Chat Station believes that a pioneering mobile device could enter a mass production phase around September of this year. Prototype devices are allegedly up and running—the tipster's insider sources have alluded to engineering samples being capable of reaching 4.0 GHz clocks on a high-powered Big Core (Nuvia's Oryon or Phoenix). Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC was revealed last October, and working hardware is slowly trickling out via retail avenues in early 2024—Digital Chat Station does not provide any reasoning behind the race to get the successor across the finish line within the same year.

An unnamed smartphone manufacturer is said to have outfitted a "dual-curved screen" model with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chipset—Wccftech's report suggests that Xiaomi usually gets first dibs on cutting edge Qualcomm processor tech. The Nuvia engineering team has likely got their custom Oryon cores running to more than satisfactory levels—the article points out that: "a previous Geekbench 6 single-core and multi-core leak revealed that the (3 nm) Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 competes with Apple's M3 and is 46 percent faster than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 in multi-threaded workloads." Qualcomm is facing fierce flagship chip competition in 2024—MediaTek's Dimensity 9400 SoC could arrive at a cheaper price point, while offering comparable performance and efficiency.



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[Minus Infinity]

Will hit 20W peak power for sure, with the SD 8 gen 3 already hitting 17.4W. This is ultrathin notebook U class apu power levels.

 

[The_Enigma]

I thought the big benefit of the Nuvia cores was how incredibly strong they were? I expected far better single core score with them given the details people were talking about. These arent really any better than a standard Arm core if you were to clock it up to 4ghz too.

 

[AnotherReader]

I thought the big benefit of the Nuvia cores was how incredibly strong they were? I expected far better single core score with them given the details people were talking about. These arent really any better than a standard Arm core if you were to clock it up to 4ghz too.

Snadragon 8 Gen 3 with the ARM Cortex X4 only gets 2214 while clocking at 3.4 Ghz. This is nearly 30% better which is about two generations of ARM CPU designs. Clock speed is a big part of performance and you can't seriously claim that a X4 would reach 4 GHz in smartphone power envelopes.

 

[Minus Infinity]

Snadragon 8 Gen 3 with the ARM Cortex X4 only gets 2214 while clocking at 3.4 Ghz. This is nearly 30% better which is about two generations of ARM CPU designs. Clock speed is a big part of performance and you can't seriously claim that a X4 would reach 4 GHz in smartphone power envelopes.

The X5 will be targeting 4.0GHz though!

 

[AnotherReader]

The X5 will be targeting 4.0GHz though!

ARM's designs have never clocked high. I would be surprised if they managed to hit 4 GHz in smartphone power envelopes.