We have already seen some interesting numbers about the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chipset, which will power many of 2025’s Ultra flagships including the Galaxy S25 Ultra, Xiaomi 15 series, Oppo Find X8 Ultra, and vivo X200 Ultra. The latest news is that the chipset is claimed to reach a GPU clock speed of 1.15GHz. For context, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset features the Adreno 750 GPU, which is clocked at 770 MHz, much lower than that of the upcoming chipset.
Snapdragon 8 Gen 4’s Adreno 830 benchmarked with a clock speed of 1.15GHz
The leak comes from Weibo (Chinese microblogging site) user “Undying Spirits” (translated), who cites a 3D Mark Wildlife test result of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4. It reveals a GPU clock speed of 1.15GHz. The chipset offers 166 frames in 3DMark’s Wild Life offscreen test and about 44fps in Wild Life Extreme Unlimited. This is about a 46-53% improvement over the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3.
In GFX Bench’s Aztec Ruins High, the upcoming chipset manages to offer 125fps, while the Adreno 750 inside the 8 Gen 3 only manages to achieve around 96fps.
It’s important to mention that the results we are seeing are from a QRD (Qualcomm Reference Device), which typically uses early runs of new chips. These are smartphones built by Qualcomm for the purpose of silicon evaluation and don’t necessarily aim at the best performance or heat dissipation. So the chipsets don’t usually hit the same clock speeds as the retail version. The GPU’s clock speed and performance could be even higher on the retail units from different smartphone makers.
Tipster Ice Universe previously reported the clock speed to hit as high as 1.25GHz, which is still possible.
Speaking of the CPU, the chipset has already made its appearance on Geekbench, with a single and multi-core score of 2884 and 8840 respectively. The “For Galaxy” edition of the chipset has also surfaced on the platform with a slightly higher performance of 3060 and 9080 on single and multi-core tests respectively.
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