Snapdragon 8s Elite may not included to next sub-flagship of Qualcomm: New Leaks
The new leaks render that Qualcomm’s successor will be equipped with Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 instead of 8s Elite. So, you will find the processor with Adreno 825 GPU will come with a reduced size, and the phones with the same chip are expected to be released in early April 2025.
Generally, it is difficult to follow Qualcomm’s Snapdragon lineup, but you will find the flagship a little less complicated. It is updated every year, and we are going to meet with a top-tier flagship SoC and a second “s” SoC for affordable flagships to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3.
Why is the Snapdragon 8s Elite absent?
The leaker also gives some reasons for the absence of Snapdragon 8s Elite is the absence of Qualcomm’s self-developed Oryon CPU architecture for SM8735 SoC So; it doesn’t call it an “Elite” SoC. But it will make Qualcomm’s lineup difficult if the Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 comes without the 8 Elite 4.
The specifications of the upcoming processor according to the leaker, are given below;
- Prime Cortex-X4 core colcker at 3.21GHz
- 3-performance Cortex-A720 cores clocked at 3.01GHz
- 2 more Cortex-A720 cores clocked at 2.8GHz
- 2 more Cortex-A720 cores clocked at 2.02GHz
If the aforementioned configuration for Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 and AnTUTU succeeds in earning a total score of north of two million, it will be able to compete with Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 phones, including Xiaomi 14 Ultra, iQOO 12 Pro, etc.
The Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 offers Adreno 825 for GPU, as compared to Snapdragon 8 Elite has Adreno 830, and the system-level cache is also confined to 6 MB down from 12MB L2 cache.
The launch date isn’t officially announced, but it is predicted that the Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 will be released in April, and the first consumers will be Redmi Turbo 4 Pro, Xiaomi Civic5 Pro, iQOO Z10 Turbo Pro, and so on.
