The world of mobile technology is awaiting the launch of Qualcomm's next flagship mobile processor, the Snapdragon 8 Gen4, scheduled for the end of the year. Rumors about its features are becoming more and more insistent, and a recent leak from the famous leakster, Digital Chat Station, revealed some of the planned upgrades to us; let's go and discover them together.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 4: leakster reveals new details on the next flagship chip
As suggested by the leakster, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 will be equipped with an updated GPU architecture, with improved cache and memory compression technologies. This architecture was called “Slice GPU architecture” from a source on Twitter, who uses the username sun.dtsi.
The source explained that, in the Slice architecture, the GPU is divided into multiple independent physical units called “slices”. Each slice has its own pipeline, cache and memory.
Digital Chat Station also mentioned that Qualcomm has developed a “new technology” to improve the “usage of the GPU“, which should guarantee superior performance. According to the source on Twitter, the technology the tipster is referring to is called “Dynamic Wave Pairing“, for which Qualcomm filed a patent in 2022.
According to the patent description, Dynamic Wave Pairing will allow the GPU to distribute tasks more efficiently. The GPU will be able to assign workloads to different sections within it, then choosing the most suitable one to handle the specific task. This will ensure that the GPU is constantly working at its optimal capacity, leading to smoother performance.
Qualcomm's custom CPU cores, known as Oryon, should also bring notable performance improvements. A report this month revealed that the 8 Gen 4's high-performance core it reaches a clock speed of 4.2GHz, with benchmark scores of 3,000 points in single-core and 10,000 points in multi-core on Geekbench.
We can therefore say that Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 will be a very high-performance chip, which will give competitors such a hard time Dimensity 9400 from MediaTek and the Exynos 2500 from Samsung.
