The Qualcomm’s upcoming processor, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, is going to be a really strong rival in the mobile chipset space. Geekbench results floating around lately show an amazing performance boost over its predecessor and even Apple’s A17 Pro chip.
These benchmarks were conducted on a pre-production model, but they provide an extremely exciting view of the chip’s capabilities – what it provided for a multi-core test score was impressively high, far greater than Apple’s flagship – The Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 scored 8840 points in the multi-core test — well above the A17 Pro’s average score of about 7,300 points.
Now, the secret sauce behind this performance boost lies in Qualcomm’s new custom Oryon CPU cores, which marked its departure from the traditional Arm architecture. Added to this architectural shift, the higher clock speeds have greatly improved single- and multi-core performance.
This performance leap, however, comes at a cost. According to several industry analysts, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 is going to be significantly more expensive to produce than its predecessor, meaning higher prices for flagship smartphones in 2025.
With the oncoming launch in October, people are looking forward to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4. What began early was a showing worthy of Qualcomm to take on a huge dominance in high-performance mobile chips.
