Qualcomm has confirmed plans to launch its next-generation flagship system-on-a-chip (SoC), the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, at the Snapdragon Summit this October. 

Don McGuire, Qualcomm’s Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), revealed the news during the Mobile World Congress via an X/Twitter post, mentioning that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 will feature the company’s custom Oryon CPU. He also hinted that the chip will see improved NPU performance “as an evolution of their NPU story.”

Although the video doesn’t provide many specifics about the chip, details about the upcoming SoC have already started circulating in the rumor mill.

A leak previously revealed the performance of an engineering sample of the alleged Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chip. The chip purportedly smoothly ran the game Genshin Impact for 45 minutes at 1080p resolution, maintaining a 60fps frame rate.

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.

Moreover, another 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.

Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 launch

Before the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4’s fall debut, Qualcomm is anticipated to release an additional Snapdragon 8 Gen series chip. This interim chip, codenamed SM8635, is rumored to feature a powerful Cortex-X4 core and an Adreno 735 GPU. 

The chip is expected to slot between the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 and Gen 3 in terms of performance. It may be released as the Snapdragon 8s Gen 2 or Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Lite.

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