Item: Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 To Hit 4.3GHz? Leakers Doubt The Claim
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Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 To Hit 4.3GHz? Leakers Doubt The Claim

Qualcomm’s next flagship chip, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 – destined for next year’s Android smartphones – seemed to have entered the rumor mill with a loud metaphorical bang, with claims of its clock speeds to hugely surpass the current flagship SoC that is the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3.

It was initially rumored to hit a clock speed of 4.0GHz, and to give you a reference – SD8G3 only managed 3.4GHz (on certain variants). This latest claim was found by @negativeonehero on X (Twitter), presumably from a Chinese leaker, who “expects” the final unit to reach as high as 4.3GHz, based on a 4.0GHz clock speed from the engineering unit.

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However, this seems to be highly debatable. 4.3GHz happens to be a figure used on the Snapdragon X Elite, Qualcomm’s laptop-bound chips that get to enjoy more thermal and power headroom, thus a similar figure on the smartphone could be highly unachievable unless exotic cooling solutions are introduced. Without it, it is only capable of doing very short bursts before heat catches up.

Even if it is technically achievable from the silicon standpoint, the limited amounts of cooling capacity available in a smartphone form factor meant it is at best uneconomical to build a cooling solution to extract the clock speeds, and at worst impractical due to the associated components required to cool the chip.

Source: Wccftech

Pokdepinion: Let’s see if the jump is big enough to level the field against Apple’s A-series SoCs.