Smartphones with Qualcomm‘s newest Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset have started to populate the market. Meanwhile, there are already rumors surfacing about the next version, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 SoC.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 4

A Twitter user, @faridofanani96, recently tweeted about the gaming performance of a Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chip. This chip, specifically an early version called an engineering sample, reportedly ran the game Genshin Impact smoothly for 45 minutes at 1080p resolution, maintaining what is believed to be a 60fps frame rate.

Genshin Impact is a demanding game for smartphones, so the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4’s ability to handle it for a good length of time is promising. Since the chip in the test is still being developed, the final version might even perform better, possibly running Genshin Impact at its maximum 60fps at a higher resolution.

Likewise, previous report suggests that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4’s Adreno 830 GPU scored 10% higher than Apple’s M2 chip in the 3DMark Wild Life Extreme Stress Test. This is impressive, especially considering the M2 is designed for larger devices like Macs.

Qualcomm has confirmed that it will include its custom Oryon cores in its 2024 smartphone chips, likely the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4. The company’s Snapdragon X Elite PC, which uses the Oryon CPU, has shown impressive performance, suggesting the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 will be a significant upgrade from the 8 Gen 3.

The Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 will face competition from MediaTek’s upcoming Dimensity 9400 SoC. The latter, like the Dimensity 9300, is expected to feature a mix of three high-performance Cortex-X5 cores and five Cortex performance cores and doesn’t include any low-power efficiency cores.

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