Per the leak, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 is expected to achieve a single core score of 3,500, while the A18 is unlikely to go beyond 3,300. The rumor also says that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 will do better on the multi-core test and its GPU will also be faster.
Snapdragon 8 Gen 4’s new Oryon cores could give it a huge edge
Nuvia, the company that Qualcomm bought in 2021, originally started working on the cores to compete better with Apple.
The Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 is presumably also Qualcomm’s first 3nm chip. Rumors also say that the chip will only consist of Phoenix performance cores.
Qualcomm seems to be doing everything in its power to give the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 a tremendous speed boost and the latest rumor suggests it may succeed. The leak also claims that the main core will be clocked at 4.3 GHz, which is a lot higher than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3’s Cortex-X4 peak frequency of 3.30GHz. The higher clock speed will also increase power consumption, with the report saying it can go as high as 1.3V.
So while the use of new cores and an improved manufacturing process may help the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 beat the A18, the winning margin might not be as high as the leak suggests.
