A detailed specifications sheet of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 leaked a few weeks earlier, revealing the various upgrades that would arrive with the chipset when it officially launches. While Qualcomm gears up to announce its flagship SoC, we get a closer look at yet another leak, but this time, there is a components layout of the silicon, along with a multitude of supported technologies. It is highly possible that we do not have to wait for the official unveiling to happen, as we have hit the motherload with the latest revelation.
More details reveal that 5G mmWave and sub-6GHz bands will only be supported by the SM8750 variant
The last time we took at gander at the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 specifications, we learned that there will be two variants prepared by Qualcomm; the ‘SM8750’ and ‘SM8750P,’ with the latter being a Wi-Fi-only version. According to the images shared by Jukanlosreve, which were posted by Baidu user ‘SalothSar,’ the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 will continue to offer two variants, with only the SM8750 supporting mmWave 5G and sub-6GHz bands.
We have also learned that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 will take advantage of the older LPDDR5X standard. However, there was a rumor doing the rounds, mentioning that Qualcomm’s upcoming latest and greatest silicon would support LPDDR6 RAM, but according to this specifications sheet, that does not appear to be the case. Additionally, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 will support UFS 4.0 storage, occupying two lanes from the PCIe bandwidth pool to deliver up to 4,500MB/s read speeds and up to 4,000MB/s write speeds.
Comparing this performance to the NVMe standard, it is slightly slower than the Gen 4 protocol, but that does not mean that users will run into performance bottlenecks. The Adreno 830 GPU is said to drive internal panel resolutions up to 3,840 x 2,560 at a refresh rate of 144Hz. For those wondering, this resolution is higher than 4K, but it is up to Qualcomm’s phone partners to decide if they will procure displays with that abnormally high pixel count.
The same individual who posted the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 specifications sheet and components layout reveals in the Baidu thread that the underlying features have hardly changed compared to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. Even so, we are confident that the custom Oryon CPU cores should introduce more than just a single-core and multi-core performance uplift that we witnessed from the OnePlus 13 in Geekbench 6’s earlier benchmark result.
News Source: Baidu