Qualcomm went from Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 to Snapdragon 8 Elite final yr, and so, for a very long time we have assumed that the successor to the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 can be the Snapdragon 8s Elite. Nonetheless, in accordance with a brand new rumor out of China, this may not be the case.
There’ll actually be only one Elite – a minimum of till the 8 Elite’s successor seems in October or thereabouts. Higher put – there’ll solely be one Elite line, the really flagship one. An upper-midrange chip like the subsequent 8s is not worthy of the Elite designation in Qualcomm’s view, if this rumor pans out, in fact.
So, as a substitute, it is going to be referred to as Snapdragon 8s Gen 4. It is allegedly going to develop into official in early April, with the primary telephones utilizing it then being unveiled in mid-April.
The chip is claimed to be made on TSMC’s 4nm course of, and its CPU will likely be all-big-core similar to MediaTek’s not too long ago launched Dimensity 8400. The Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 may have one Cortex-X4 core clocked at 3.21 GHz, three Cortex-A720 cores clocked at 3.01 GHz, two Cortex-A720 cores clocked at 2.8 GHz, and two Cortex-A720 cores clocked at 2.02 GHz.
There’s additionally the Adreno 825 GPU, identical era because the Adreno 830 within the Snapdragon 8 Elite however with much less efficiency in fact. SLC cache is 6 MB, L3 cache is 8 MB, and the AnTuTu rating is outwardly over 2 million.
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