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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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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        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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          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.

                    "The rich get richer and the poor get poorer", except in the case of SoCs, the already fast chips get faster while the low-end ones get heavily stripped down rebrands and overclocks instead of a brand-new chip on a brand-new architecture.
                    Let's see, Qualcomm doesn't have a 4G chip for sub-100$ phones, and if you think Mediatek is filling the gap you're wrong. Mediatek is still hellbent on rebadging the helio G3x and G8x series. If anyone Unisoc is doing great there. But even then, those Unisoc chips are really old at this point.
                    Let's move our budget up a bit, in the 150-300$ range, you get the SD 68x, 695, 778 and 7s Gen 2. All of these are several years old. (7sG2 is just another rebrand). We don't talk about 6 Gen 1. The 6 series chipsets are terribly lacking features and performance while the 7 series is only available on 300$+ phones.

                      AnonD-641645, 02 Feb 2024If it heats up while doing light tasks, then there's s... moreI know

                        Techgeek91, 01 Feb 20248+gen 1 is still a good midranger, better than mtk 8 series... moreIt's definitely only beating the Dimensity 9000+ and 8200, but nothing more than that. Still a good chip if you're not going too heavy on it though.

                          Anonymous, 02 Feb 2024So did their last chip, which is useless due to heavy throt... moreI said 'significantly' for a reason.

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                            Anonymous, 02 Feb 2024When every current phone works at 60 or 40% of the chip... moreWhat are 60% or 40% of 150%? Get it?

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                              Anonymous, 02 Feb 2024When every current phone works at 60 or 40% of the chip... moreYou see, the real problem lies with consumers. Yes we tech savvy buyers know it's getting pointless, but average consumer doesn't care, they just wish to be able to say "I got most powerful phone".

                              Rare example where companies aren't at fault, they are just catering to what people want and is profitable for them.

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                                Anonymous, 02 Feb 2024When every current phone works at 60 or 40% of the chip... moreTrue...is just marketing

                                  According to Gary Explains. A couple of years ago... A whole load of Apple Silicon employees. And senior employees left Apple Silicon and moved to Qualcomm and possibly Mediatek. As it takes a year or two to upgrade the design of an SoC. The fruit of such work is already showing. And Apple Silicon is rapidly falling behind already. In fact the only reason why there single core scores are still ahead a bit. Is because there die size is 30% large than Androids. However. If Apples die size was 30% smaller. Then Android would work out stronger. Meaning more performance in ratio to die size. So it's clear that actually on every level pretty much. Android is the winner in a multitude of check boxes for SoC's. And we know Android handsets are clearly better than any Apple device. I actually bought an apple product for the first time for my partner. They are airpods pro 2s. And for the price. And what they are. I was not at all impressed. Now looking forward to my Asus RoG Phone 8 Pro... In a months time. Due to all this pre order stuff.

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                                    When every current phone works at 60 or 40% of the chip's power,what's the point ? We're just chasing theoretical maximums to increase benchmark numbers the last few years.Wrong direction.

                                      Anonymous, 01 Feb 2024For what 8K 60fps?!Fun fact: Even Snapdragon 8+ gen 1 can do that, of course with a third-party app.

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                                        zanezonair, 02 Feb 2024In terms of performance? I do know the difference yes. O... moreIf it heats up while doing light tasks, then there's something wrong. But if it heats up while gaming at max settings, it's no fault of the chip, it's the heat dissipation elements that can't keep up. That's why heating is not so much an issue for tablets because the heat can dissipate over larger surface area.

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