Early Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 and Dimensity 9400 benchmarks show incredible performance

01 February 2024
Incredible or impossible? The gains are much bigger than we would normally expect for a generational improvement.

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  • 18 Mar 2024

While it's obvious that qualcomm's snapdragon 8 Gen 3 battling Media Tek's dimensity 9300 (both on the 4nm node process) is fierce competition at it's finest, their upcoming successors, snapdragon 8 Gen 4 and dimensity 9400 will up the ante as both of them will be fitted on the 3nm node process.

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    • 06 Mar 2024

    Although I'm a Qualcomm loyalist having many Qualcomm powered phones with future plans to buy more, I am grateful for Media Tek's great products such as their current dimensity 9300 and upcoming dimensity 9400 which is forcing Qualcomm to constantly produce ever better chips such as 8 gen 3 and the upcoming 8 gen 4
    Between Qualcomm vs Media Tek, the competition is fierce as both companies are bringing out the best of each other so even customers of Media Tek powered phones can be grateful of Qualcomm's existence just as I'm grateful for Media Tek's existence. As for why I choose Qualcomm over Media Tek is because Qualcomm has the reputation as being more reputable and a longer history vs Media Tek.

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      • Anonymous
      • ke}
      • 01 Mar 2024

      Anonymous, 09 Feb 2024There's absolutely no way is this real; a 50% improvem... moreNot exactly, cause 8 gen 3 use 1 large, 5 medium and 2 small cores, 8 gen 4 uses 2 large and 6 medium core. So, the improved multi score can also be attributed to one extra large and medium core. If you look at single core performance, it went from 2500 to 2800 ish, around 13% improvement, which is plausible.

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        • Anonymous
        • kkX
        • 09 Feb 2024

        There's absolutely no way is this real; a 50% improvement is crazy and completely impossible in a single Generation. I believe,---like previous generations---the flagships for 2025 are going to get a 25% improvement (in Geekbench) or maybe a little more, but not whatever this is.

          I think it's due for these companies to collaborate with large game and software developers to make full use of their chipsets. It's just a shame to see their performance being wasted on smth a 2 y/o phone can run flawlessly.

            I Just Read, 03 Feb 2024This story is fake Before you get upset and post based on... moreAnders makes no sense.

              I Just Read, 03 Feb 2024This story is fake Before you get upset and post based on... moreI didn't comment on this section as I also thought this was obviously fake, and even if it has a slight chance of being real, I have no reason to believe it. However as usual you had to mention me in your comment here as well, for reasons unknown to me. Don't comment misinformation, or to be fair, literally anything about me.

                Vegetaholic, 03 Feb 2024PS4 emulation incoming :)PS4? I didn't even know there was an 8 Gen 3 that could play PS3 emulator..

                  rizki1, 01 Feb 2024insane, what do you want to do with performance this fast?PS4 emulation incoming :)

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                    • TheHappoooner
                    • Sda
                    • 03 Feb 2024

                    This is the speed of 11900k/5800x3d desktop CPU or Apple M3 arm.
                    Why do we need such powerful devices? Can I run Windows or Linux native on those devices with full app support?
                    What about thermal throttling? I still think those numbers are fake and this is SD Elite X with an active cooling solution.

                      This story is fake
                      Before you get upset and post based on a rumour (now perpetuated by Digital Chat Station) here is the DNA / FINGERPRINT / VIDEO evidence to retain as there is another 9 months for stories like this to follow.

                      Not for Darling Yext
                      If the answer is 4, the conditional interchangable variables are plus + or multiply x what is the unknown

                      Let's venture into the Apple Vineyard
                      Apples fabrication went from 4nm to 3nm with it came a name change.

                      Apple A16 Bionic 4nm to A17 Pro 3nm
                      SAME THING HERE!
                      The vast majority will already know (the exception named) or have deduced the answer from the above.

                      Because the tipster don't know this how is It they purport to have benchmark for Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, when there WON'T be a 8 Gen 4 (which will be 3nm)

                      More??? Cmon I should not be asked to provide further evidence (X account to follow)

                      But here is more
                      List Snapdragon Flagships:

                      QC 8G3, QC 8G2, QC 8G1+, (QC 8G1), [ 4nm]

                      QSD 888) [5nm]
                      QSD 870, QSD 865, QSD 860, QSD 855, [7nm]

                      QSD 845+, QSD 845, [10nm]

                      QSD 835, [10nm]

                      QSD 821, QSD 820, [14nm]

                      (QSD 810) [20nm]

                      Further or EVEN more on Nanoreview there hasn't been a Snapdragon X gen 4

                      The move from 4nm to 3 nm WILL bring a change in name, as you can see Qualcomm have used a different naming standard when the process (nm) changes

                      8 Gen 4 which to repeat these leaksters don't know or appreciate Qualcomm naming system so all to they have done is add 1 to 3 (pause that open calculator 1 ...)

                      I actually do know the name and the synthetic Benchmarks please see my separate post which will follow in November 2024. I spent too much time on this already

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                        • Anonymous
                        • 70d
                        • 03 Feb 2024

                        Redeemer, 02 Feb 2024Qualcomm chips are getting hotter and throttling harder eve... moreYou're being delusional.

                          4Ghz. Hmmm...mmm...

                          I'm assuming we'll have nitrogen cooling soon?

                            I still feels like there's no point giving crazy overkill performance like that if you can't even use your smartphone as a PC. Even though I'm not a fan of Samsung phones, I still highly value the benefit of DeX, especially when travelling light. It's the same story with Motorola's Ready For, Honor's Magic Desktop, Huawei's EMUI Desktop, and LG's Screen+. At this point, we should be able to see a modified or reworked Snapdragon 8 Gen 3/4 and Dimensity 9300/9400 for Windows on ARM.

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                              • Anonymous
                              • j}r
                              • 03 Feb 2024

                              Wasn't the SD8 Gen 4 supposed to be the first Nuvia-based one? Normally that would explain an extra-big jump, but Mediatek is matching the jump surprisingly well.

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                                • Anonymous
                                • KLR
                                • 02 Feb 2024

                                CFoote, 02 Feb 2024If the chips can hit these high speeds and allow under-cloc... morepower-save mode should limit cpu

                                but most battery power used by display anyway
                                and do you think 10secs full/high load vs 30+secs mid/low load make big difference in battery saving ?
                                30secs with screen-on will use more battery than 10secs imo

                                its not as simple under-clocking = much more longer battery life

                                  If the chips can hit these high speeds and allow under-clocking to save battery, I'm all for it. A device is useless with a dead battery.

                                    Anonymous, 02 Feb 2024500k of what, they're both above 3M points500k of potatoes.

                                      Qualcomm chips are getting hotter and throttling harder every generation. We see decent strides in Multi-core but very small gains in Single core performance. Apple will eat the competition alive with the A18 Pro.

                                        SD Elite X is supposed to have components within the 8 Gen 4. So an early test chip will not so the significant performance gain at this early stage.

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