The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen4 is based on the 3nm process, and the Android flagship will be equipped soon
In October last year, the third-generation Snapdragon 8 flagship platform was officially unveiled at the 2023 Snapdragon Summit event. Subsequently, flagship devices equipped with the third-generation Snapdragon 8 of various brands were released and launched one after another.
According to the existing revelations, the new generation of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 series flagship platform will also be unveiled around October this year, and as time progresses, more and more revelations about this generation of Qualcomm Snapdragon flagship platform have begun to increase.
Recently, the blogger @Digital Chat Station mentioned relevant content in a revelation.
It is reported that the leak shows: "The core specifications of SM8750 and DX4 remain unchanged, and the architecture I said a few months ago. SM8750-1.5 generation self-developed all-large core architecture, TSMC N3 blessing, the current sample performance is really strong, but the frequency setting is too high, so the power consumption feedback is average, and the landing should be ...... and will be reduced"
For reference, the SM8750 mentioned in it should be the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chip that will be unveiled in the second half of this year. The chip will be built on TSMC's 3nm process.
It is reported that the earliest mobile phone products equipped with 3nm chips are the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max, which were unveiled in September last year, and they use the first 3nm chip A17 Pro.
According to the information mentioned in the leaks, the fourth-generation Snapdragon 8 chip that will be unveiled next will also be based on the 3nm process. And this means that there will be a lot of Android models equipped with 3nm chips in the future.
In addition to the chip process, the latest revelations also show that the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chip is currently very strong in the sample, but it may be balanced between frequency and power consumption in the future, and it may be downclocked after it actually lands.
Earlier, the revelation from the same blogger also mentioned: "The specifications and performance of the two new flagship cores have been touched, and this year's generation of Android flagship cores has indeed dried the multi-core to 1W, and the CPU and GPU have both killed the fruit."
According to the leaks, the new generation of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 series flagship core Geekbench multi-core score exceeds 10,000 points, and the CPU and GPU performance are better than Apple's A-series chips.
Of course, in view of the fact that there is no definite official news for the time being, the information mentioned in the revelation can be referred to.
According to the leaks, the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chip is codenamed "SUN", and the CPU adopts the 2*Phoenix L+6*Phoenix M architecture, and the design performance of the CPU's self-developed architecture has been greatly improved at this stage.
For reference, the third-generation Snapdragon 8 uses a 1+5+2 architecture, based on the 4nm process, with a maximum frequency of 3.3GHz for the super-large core, as well as Snapdragon X75 baseband and Wifi 7. With 30% better performance, 20% more power efficiency, 25% better GPU performance, 25% better power efficiency, and for the first time, support for Global Illumination on top of hardware ray tracing for Unreal Engine 5 and 240 FPS games.
In addition, in addition to the fourth-generation Snapdragon 8, which will be unveiled this year, there is also news that the next-generation product - the fifth-generation Snapdragon 8 chip has been exposed.
A leak from IT Home mentioned that the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chip will use the Phoenix core, and the next-generation Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 is expected to use the Pegasus core, both of which use the "2+6" cluster design scheme and the Slice GPU architecture.
At the same time, the news also mentions that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 will use Samsung's 2nm process, TSMC's "N3E" process will remain unchanged, and Qualcomm has commissioned Samsung and TSMC to develop a prototype of a 2nm application chip.
However, there is still quite some time before the release of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5, and the actual product situation is still uncertain, so interested users can stay tuned.