Snapdragon 7 Gen 4 impresses with Geekbench debut alongside Honor 400

Qualcomm recently showed off its newest mid-range smartphone SoC, the Snapdragon 7 Gen 4. Its marketing material claimed lofty a performance uplift, and now, its maiden Geekbench run shows Qualcomm isn't lying. As anticipated, it showed up on the platform alongside the Honor DNN-AN00, which is almost certainly the Honor 400 because the Honor 400 Pro is tipped to arrive with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC.

The Snapdragon 7 Gen 4 scores 1,351 points in Geekbench's single-core benchmark. That represents an 18% performance over its last-gen counterpart, which scored 1,147 points in the same benchmark. It is even better in the multicore test, where the Snapdragon 7 Gen 4 (4,145) is 32% faster than the 7 Gen 3 (3,129). This Honor 400 variant has 15 GB of RAM and runs Android 16.

A cursory peek at Geekbench's back end reveals the Snapdragon 7 Gen 4 packs an Adreno 722 GPU. It looks like an incrementally better version of the Adreno 720 found on the Snapdragon 7 Gen 3, but the listing doesn't reveal anything more. Overall, the chip makes good on its promise, at least on the CPU front. Plus, we have to bear in mind the Honor 400 here is like a pre-production sample, and it will only get better with proper software.