Qualcomm teases new flagship product amid Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 launch rumors

Qualcomm has announced a launch event for a new flagship Snapdragon product, set for April 2, 2025, in China. While there's no official confirmation yet, this event is expected to fully unveil the much-rumored Snapdragon 8s Gen 4. Although this rumored affordable flagship SoC is said to be a proper successor to last year's Snapdragon 8s Gen 3, it's tipped to miss out on the Oryon cores.

That's likely the reason why it won't be named Snapdragon 8s Elite, which some of the previous rumors have hinted at. Recent reports suggest that the upcoming Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 will feature a 1+3+2 architecture, which is very different from the custom 2+6 Oryon configuration found in the Snapdragon 8 Elite.

These leaks have also hinted at the possible clocks of the cores, and the configuration could look something like this:

• 1x Cortex-X4 prime core running at 3.21 GHz
• 2x Cortex-A720 performance cores clocked at 2.80 GHz
• 3x Cortex-A720 cores running at 3.01 GHz
• 2x Coretex-A720 efficiency cores clocked at 2.02 GHz

The recent leaks claim that the Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 will feature the Adreno 825 GPU. It's said to be within the same generation as the Adreno 830 found in the Snapdragon 8 Elite but with fewer GPU cores. As far as benchmark scores go, the SoC can reportedly get over 2 million points on AnTuTu, putting it above the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 but possibly not much higher up than the non-s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 (12/256 GB RedMagic 9S Pro curr. $636.65 on Amazon).

Xiaomi and iQOO will reportedly be the first manufacturers to offer smartphones with the rumored Snapdragon 8s Gen 4. Past reports claim that this SoC will power the Xiaomi Civi 5 Pro, Redmi Turbo 4 Pro, and iQOO Z10 Turbo Pro, and the first two will reportedly be available in mid-April 2025.