Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 with Oryon CPU Confirmed; Here’s What to Expect

At the MWC 2024 event, Qualcomm announced that its next-gen mobile chipset, Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 iscoming in October. But the interesting part is that Qualcomm’s Chief Marketing Officer, Don McGuire, confirmed that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 will feature custom Oryon CPU cores.

Qualcomm 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.❗️Calling all Snapdragon Insiders…CMO@donnymacis in Europe this week for#MWC24and has a special message – and some secret intel – just for you 🕵pic.twitter.com/RBsBvytRlo— Snapdragon UK (@Snapdragon_UK)February 28, 2024

❗️Calling all Snapdragon Insiders…CMO@donnymacis in Europe this week for#MWC24and has a special message – and some secret intel – just for you 🕵pic.twitter.com/RBsBvytRlo— Snapdragon UK (@Snapdragon_UK)February 28, 2024

In case you are unfamiliar with the Oryon architecture, it is designed by the former chief architect of Apple Silicon, Gerard Williams III, who left the company andfounded Nuvia in 2019. Qualcomm later acquired Nuvia in 2021, and the same team has developed theOryon CPU, which is said to be plenty powerful and efficient, outperforming even Apple’s latest M-series chips, as seen in the latestSnapdragon X Elite benchmark leak.

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.

Arjun Sha

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