The 3nm Snapdragon 8 Gen4 flagship phone will be released in October and the Xiaomi 15 is expected to debut at the moment

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2024-05-04 21:32Posted on Beijing Zhongguancun Online Official Account

The Snapdragon processor has always been a benchmark for the performance of Android phones, especially now that the Snapdragon 8 Gen3 can be said to be in the limelight, but according to the news, the Snapdragon 8 Gen4 flagship phone will be released in October, and according to past practice, the Xiaomi 15 is expected to be among the first phones.

It is reported that at present, the latest sample of Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 self-developed architecture Nuvia 2+6 large core frequency is 3.6GHz-4.0GHz, GB6 2.7K±/10K ±, the theoretical performance improvement of CPU and GPU is still relatively large, but it is a low-frequency engineering machine, so the reference value of the running score is not high.

Last year, Apple equipped the A17 Pro with a 3nm process, which is also the world's first 3nm chip, and is equipped on the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen4 will also use TSMC's 3nm process, allowing the Android mobile phone camp to officially enter the 3nm era.

According to the revelations, TSMC plans as many as five 3nm processes, including N3B, N3E, N3P, N3S, and N3X. Among them, N3B is its first 3nm node, and the A17 Pro uses N3B. The Snapdragon 8 Gen4, which debuted in October this year, is expected to use TSMC's second-generation 3nm process N3E, which is an enhanced version of N3B, which has better power consumption than N3B process, higher yield, and relatively lower cost.

In addition, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen4 will enable the self-developed Nuvia architecture and no longer use the Arm public architecture solution, which will be a major change in the history of Qualcomm Snapdragon. Interestingly, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen4 currently tested has extremely strong performance, but due to the high frequency setting, the power consumption performance is average, and the frequency is expected to be reduced in mass production.

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