In March last year, the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 was officially launched, which was positioned between the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 & 8 Gen 3 in performance. The chipset was seen on various smartphones, including the Xiaomi Civi 4 Pro (aka the Xiaomi 14 CIVI), Redmi Turbo 3 (aka the Poco F6), iQOO Z9 Turbo, Realme GT Neo 6, Motorola X50 Ultra (aka the Motorola Egge 50 Ultra), and the recently launched iQOO Neo 10R (aka the iQOO Z9 Turbo Endurance Edition).
Today, the Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 was officially unveiled, and this new flagship chipset brings some notable upgrades in performance versus its predecessor.
Starting with the manufacturing process, the Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 is built on TSMC’s 4nm N4P process. There is an octa-core CPU, but Qualcomm did not go with its Oryon CPU for this new chipset as it did with the Snapdragon 8 Elite. Instead, we get one prime Cortex-X4 core clocked at up to 3.2GHz, three Cortex-A720 cores clocked at up to 3.0GHz, two Cortex-A720 cores clocked at up to 2.8GHz, and two Cortex-A720 cores clocked at up to 2.0GHz. This change in the CPU configuration results in an almost 31% faster CPU performance than the Snapdragon 8s gen 3.
The GPU is the Adreno 825, which is almost 49% faster than the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3’s GPU. There is Real-time Hardware-Accelerated Ray Tracing support.
The chipset uses a faster NPU and a 2x larger shared memory, resulting in an almost 44% faster AI performance. There is WiFi 7 and Bluetooth 6.0 support, too.
We will soon see smartphones with this chipset in the market, at least in China. The iQOO Z10 Turbo is already confirmed to launch soon with the Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 and more brands should follow suit.