Qualcomm just dropped its new mobile chipset for budget flagship phones—the Snapdragon 8s Gen 4. Built on TSMC’s 4nm N4P process, it sticks with the older Kryo CPU instead of jumping to the Oryon cores found in the top-tier Snapdragon 8 Elite.
Under the hood, you’ve got a 1x Cortex-X4 prime core hitting up to 3.2GHz, 3x Cortex-A720 cores at 3.0GHz, 2x Cortex-A720 cores at 2.8GHz, and 2x Cortex-A720 cores at 2.0GHz.
Qualcomm claims it’s 31% faster than last year’s 8s Gen 3 while sipping 39% less power.
Graphics get a big boost too, thanks to the new Adreno 825 GPU, which promises a 49% jump in performance over the Gen 3. Plus, you’re getting on-device ray tracing and gaming perks like Snapdragon Game Super Resolution 2.0 and Adreno Image Motion Engine 2.0.
AI tasks also get a major upgrade with the Hexagon NPU, now 44% faster, and there’s an 18-bit triple ISP that can handle up to 320MP cameras and 4K60fps HDR video.
For connectivity, it packs the Snapdragon X75 5G modem (sub-6GHz), Wi-Fi 7, and Bluetooth 6.0. Storage and memory support includes UFS 4.0 and LPDDR5X RAM, along with USB 3.1 Gen 2.
There’s also Qualcomm’s XPAN tech, which uses Wi-Fi for audio—something already seen in earbuds like the Xiaomi Buds 5 Pro.
The iQOO Z10 Turbo is expected to be the first phone with this chip, launching later this month, with Xiaomi, Oppo, Meizu, and others following soon after.