Leaker reveals possible strengths and weaknesses of the upcoming Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 AP. | Image credit-@negativeonehero
In other words, the leaker recommends skipping the Galaxy S25 Ultra and any other flagship that will be powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 and wait to see how the 2025 Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 SoC performs in tests. As for phones like the Galaxy S25 Ultra, which should be carrying the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 in all markets, Qualcomm’s focus on the GPU’s energy efficiency should allow the phone to run cool and deliver improved battery life.
Going from the 4nm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC built by Samsung Foundry to a 3nm Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 manufactured by TSMC should deliver energy consumption improvements on its own even without the optimizations that make the Adreno 750 GPU so efficient on the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 AP.
Since we’ve already brought up the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 AP, we can point out that the chipset, which could be powering the Galaxy S26 in 2026, will use custom Pegasus CPU cores in the same 2 + 6 configuration as the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 AP. That includes two performance CPU cores and six CPU efficiency cores.
