Snapdragon 8cx Gen 4: New details about Qualcomm chipset revealed before rumoured autumn announcement

More information about the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 4 has surfaced online, this time courtesy of WinFuture. To recap, Kamila Wojciechowska revealed various technical specifications in January and February, including 4 efficiency cores, 8 performance cores and an Adreno 740 GPU.

Now, WinFuture claims to have found concrete details about the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 4 in online databases, which Qualcomm refers to internally as 'Hamoa'. According to the website, the unreleased chipset features adapted ARM cores instead of only regular ARM Cortex equivalents that Qualcomm uses in smartphone chipsets. In other words, the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 4 will mirror Apple M-series SoCs in this regard. 

Reportedly, Qualcomm has codenamed these cores 'Oryon' and have been by Nuvia engineers following the latter's acquisition by the former. WinFuture adds that Qualcomm has been prototyping at least three Oryon-derived chipsets with 8, 10 and 12 core combinations, known as SC8350, SC8370 and SC8380, respectively. Thus, it appears that the 'Qualcomm CRD' listing that appeared in March related to Qualcomm's most powerful Oryon prototype.

WinFuture assumes that all variants feature four efficiency cores. Hence, SC8350 would complement these efficiency cores with four performance cores, with SC8370 jumping to six performance cores and SC8380 utilising the maximum eight performance cores. Allegedly, these prototypes have also been developed with different TDPs and clock speeds, which would allow Qualcomm to target different use cases. Currently, the first Snapdragon 8cx Gen 4-based devices will debut in October 2023 but will not come to market until early 2024. 

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