Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 with Oryon CPU Confirmed; Here’s What to Expect
Feb. 29, 2024Qualcomm has been using its Kryo CPU cores for the last many years, and finally, we will see a new CPU design on Snapdragon mobile chipsets this year.
The American chipmaker already announcedSnapdragon X Elitein October last year —an ARM-based desktop chipset for PCs— which packs the Oryon CPU cores. And now the same Oryon CPU is coming to mobile chipsets as well. Check out the video confirmation below.
According to the rumors, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 will feature anocta-core setupin the form of a(2+6) cluster, packing two high-performance cores and six high-efficiency cores.
Qualcomm seems to be doing away with little cores entirely. Apart from that, for the first time, the chip maker willlikely raise the maximum frequency to 4.0GHzon its smartphone chipset, much higher thanSnapdragon 8 Gen 3‘s 3.3GHz clock speed seen on the Cortex-X4 core.
Qualcomm is also said to be moving to TSMC’s2nd-generation 3nmprocess node (likely N3E) for the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chipset. Overall, with the inclusion of Oryon CPU cores in SD 8 Gen4, Android flagships stand to compete against Apple’s A-series chipset on iPhones.
Apple is alreadylagging in the GPUdepartment, compared to Qualcomm’s Adreno GPU and Samsung’s Xclipse GPU developed on the AMD RDNA 3 architecture. Now, Qualcomm may be ready to dethrone Apple in the CPU department as well.
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