Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 or redesigned, target frequency 4.26GHz?

 

In October last year, the third-generation Snapdragon 8 flagship platform was officially unveiled at the 2023 Snapdragon Summit event. Subsequently, various brands equipped with the third generation of Snapdragon 8 flagship devices have been released.

According to the existing Revelations, the new generation of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 series flagship platform will also be unveiled around October this year, and with the advance of time, the Revelations about this generation of Qualcomm Snapdragon flagship platform have begun to increase.

According to a report from IT House today, "Qualcomm is currently redesigning its Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 processor with a new target frequency of 4.26GHz, a change that is primarily in response to Apple's M4 / A18 / Pro processor."

That is to say, Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 will be redesigned, and the news mentioned in the previous Revelations will be changed. The newly upgraded Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 frequency is expected to reach 4.26GHz.

If the data mentioned in the Revelations are accurate, then the actual performance of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 is also expected. But at the same time, manufacturers need to make more preparations in terms of heat suppression.

Prior to this, the blogger @Digital chat station mentioned in a leak: "SM8750 and DX4 core specifications unchanged, I said a few months ago architecture. SM8750-1.5 generation self-developed full nuclear architecture, TSMC N3 support, the current sample performance is really strong, but the frequency setting is too high, so the power feedback is general, the landing should and will reduce the frequency..."

According to the news at that time, the performance of the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chip sample is very strong, but it may be balanced between frequency and power consumption in the future, and it may be reduced frequency after the actual landing.

For reference, the third-generation Snapdragon 8 uses 1+5+2 architecture, based on the 4nm process, the maximum frequency of the super-large core can reach 3.3GHz, and the Snapdragon X75 baseband and Wifi 7. Performance is 30% higher than the previous generation, energy efficiency is 20% higher, GPU performance is 25% higher, energy efficiency is 25% higher, for the first time in hardware ray tracing based on the addition of global lighting support, support for Unreal 5 engine and 240 FPS games.

Based on the current Revelations, the actual frequency and specification performance of Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 cannot be determined for the time being. However, it is certain that this generation of Snapdragon flagship platform will be based on TSMC's 3nm process.

It is reported that the first mobile phone products equipped with 3nm chips are the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max unveiled in September last year, which uses the first 3nm chip A17 Pro.

According to the existing information, the fourth-generation Snapdragon 8 chip that will debut in the next will also be based on the 3nm process. This means that there will be many Android models equipped with 3nm chips in the future.

In addition, in addition to the fourth-generation Snapdragon 8 that will debut this year, there is also news that more next-generation products have been exposed - the fifth-generation Snapdragon 8 chip.

The news mentioned that Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chip will use the Phoenix core, and the more next-generation Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 is expected to use the Pegasus core, both using the "2+6" cluster design scheme and Slice GPU architecture.

At the same time, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 will use Samsung's 2nm process, TSMC's "N3E" process will remain unchanged, and Qualcomm has commissioned Samsung and TSMC to develop a 2nm application chip prototype.

However, there is still quite a long time to go before the release of Snapdragon 8 Gen 5, and the actual product situation can not be confirmed at present, interested users can keep an eye on it.