Snapdragon 8 Gen 4's Adreno GPU rumored to run at 1,250MHz

Rumors suggest that the upcoming Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 will have an impressive GPU. An early AnTuTu result showed a GPU score of 1,330,057, a massive increase over the 896,416 points of the top Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 result currently on AnTuTu’s ranking page.

According to Ice Universe, the Adreno 830 is being tested at a clock frequency of 1,250MHz. For comparison, the Adreno 750 in the 8 Gen 3 runs at 903MHz for the regular AB variant and 1,000MHz for the AC variant (usually labeled “for Galaxy” or “Leading”). The Adreno 735 inside the 8s Gen 3 has fewer cores but runs at a higher 1,100MHz.

Excited commenters on Weibo asked whether the performance variant of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 will have even higher clocks – the leakster cautioned that these are still experimental runs and that the final clock speeds might be different.

The Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 will also have very high CPU clock speeds for its Oryon cores – a Geekbench result showed the two fast cores running at up to 4.09GHz (and the six other cores at 2.78GHz). For comparison, the highest CPU clocks on a phone are found inside iPhone 15 Pro’s Apple A17 Pro chipset (3.78GHz). On the Android side of things, the Dimensity 9300+ and Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Leading are on par (3.4GHz).

This means that Qualcomm should be the first to crack the 4GHz barrier this October. That is as far as smartphones go, anyway, the Apple M4 chip inside the new iPad Pros runs its big CPU cores at up to 4.4GHz.

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