Qualcomm has announced a new high-performance mobile System-on-Chip (SoC), the Snapdragon 8s Gen 4. The successor to 8s Gen 3, the new chip is built with the older Kryo CPU instead of the Oryon core found in the Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset. Qualcomm has claimed to have improved the 8s Gen 4’s CPU and GPU performances by 31% and 4% respectively. It has also improved its AI capabilities by 44%.
The new Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 chip is expected to power gaming smartphones that are more affordable than flagship handsets that are equipped with Qualcomm's top-of-the-line Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC.
Unlike the Snapdragon 8 Elite, which is produced using TSMC's 3nm process technology, the new Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 is a 4nm chip. The chipset has Arm reference cores, instead of Qualcomm's custom Oryon ones. It comprises 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 supports up to 24GB LPDDR5x RAM and UFS 4.0 storage.
Qualcomm further claims that the Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 delivers up to 31 percent improved CPU performance in comparison with its predecessor, the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3. It is also equipped with a new Adreno 825 GPU, which supports on-device ray tracing support and is said to offer a 49 percent jump in GPU performance over the previous generation.
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