While Qualcomm is yet to release its 2024 flagship chipset, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, the cut-down version of it has already entered the rumor mill. Gizmochina spotted the chipset in Xiaomi’s HyperOS software with the model number “SM8735” a few days ago. Now X tipster Yogesh Brar suggests the chipset could launch in Q1 2025.
Previously, rumors suggested that Qualcomm might change the naming scheme of its upcoming flagship chipset to ‘Snapdragon 8 Elite.’ However, the tipster expects the current naming scheme to remain unchanged. Also, he mentioned the model number “SM8775” in his tweet, which is expected to be the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 4. However, nothing has been confirmed yet.
Qualcomm launched the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 in March this year as a slightly downclocked version of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. While not much has been revealed about the new chipset, Qualcomm will likely follow a similar strategy to last year, where the ‘s’ branded chip features a slightly smaller footprint and reduced cache memories. However, it retains the same CPU and GPU cores from the flagship chipset.
Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 could serve as an alternative to SD 8 Gen 4
The presence of the Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 might make sense as rumors suggest that the top-of-the-line flagship chip will be more expensive than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3.
It’s possible that we will see more cost-effective performance-centric devices using the ‘s’ branded chipset while still offering a reasonably good performance to manage all the heavy titles. For instance, Redmi Turbo 3 used the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 chip.
While the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 will launch in Q4 this year, a lot of flagships powered by this chipset will be released in Q1 next year, such as the vivo X200 Ultra, the Oppo Find X8 Ultra, and the Galaxy S24 Ultra. According to the GeekBench benchmark database, the performance core of Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 reaches 4.47GHz.
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