We’ve been seeing some spectacular benchmark outcomes from the upcoming Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, however most of them have centered on the CPU facet of issues. Nevertheless, the brand new GPU, Adreno 830, could be a good greater improve with one Weibo person reporting a 43% to 56% enchancment.
The GPU will allegedly run at 1.15GHz. Beforehand, Ice Universe reported that clock speeds as excessive as 1.25GHz have been being examined. Notice that the 1.15GHz determine and the benchmark outcomes under are from a QRD, i.e. a Qualcomm Reference Gadget, which usually makes use of early runs of recent chips that may’t hit the identical clock speeds because the retail model, so 1.25GHz continues to be attainable.
Outcomes from GFX Bench’s Aztec Ruins Excessive present a 125fps end result for the 8 Gen 4 chip, whereas the Adreno 750 contained in the 8 Gen 3 achieves 96fps. Different outcomes for the brand new GPU embrace 166fps on 3DMark’s Wild Life offscreen check and 44fps on Wild Life Excessive Limitless.
The primary telephones with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 must be the Xiaomi 15 and 15 Professional, adopted by the OnePlus 13 and iQOO 13. We’ve additionally seen benchmarks from the Galaxy S25 Extremely, but it surely’s not clear whether or not this era there might be larger clocked “for Galaxy” chips or not.
Talking of, the Galaxy S25 Extremely had its two prime cores clocked at 4.2GHz. We’ve additionally seen them decrease (4.1GHz) and better (4.32GHz), so we’re undecided what the ultimate clock pace for the CPU might be. Final yr there was speak that Qualcomm may dual-source the 8 Gen 4 chips, however extra lately we’ve solely heard of 3nm chips from TSMC’s foundry.
The Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 is anticipated subsequent month and the primary telephones to make use of it must be out nearly instantly after (the OnePlus 13 has been confirmed for an October launch, the Xiaomis will come out even sooner).
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