Qualcomm schedules Snapdragon flagship launch event

Qualcomm scheduled a new product launch event that’s set to take place later this week on Wednesday, April 2. The event will see the debut of the brand’s next-generation flagship chipset though it’s not expected to be a more powerful version of the Snapdragon 8 Elite but rather a successor to last year’s Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 chip which powered upper midrangers like the Motorola Edge 50 Ultra, Honor 200 Pro and Poco F6.

Qualcomm Snapdragon flagship launch event poster (machine translated from Chinese)

According to the latest rumors, the 8s Gen 4 chip will feature a 1+3+2+2 architecture with 1x Cortex-X4 prime core clocked @ 3.21 GHz, 3x Cortex-A720 cores @ 3.01 GHz, 2x Cortex-A720 cores clocked @ 2.8 GHz, and 2x Cortex-A720 cores clocked @ 2.02 GHz.

Qualcomm is also expected to bring an Adreno 825 GPU, which will be similar to the Adreno 830 found in the SD 8 Elite but with fewer cores, alongside 6MB SLC cache and 8MB L3 cache. The new chip is said to score over 2 million on AnTuTu.

The first batch of phones with the 8s Gen 4 are expected to launch later in April with the iQOO Z10 Turbo Pro and Redmi Turbo 4 Pro leading the way.

Source (in Chinese)