The Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 will be Qualcomm’s first smartphone SoC to be equipped with custom Oryon cores as the company looks to adopt the same configuration as Apple’s A-series family. From a performance perspective, we can expect it to be the best silicon the San Diego has ever released. The chipset’s capabilities were rumored to have been tested in an engineering sample with Genshin Impact running, and for a chip that has yet to enter mass production, it delivers respectable performance.
Framerate details of Genshin Impact were not shared, but the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 could easily have maintained a 60FPS at the highest visual settings
The Snapdragon 8 Gen 4’s initial performance run inside an engineering sample was posted on the South Korean internet forum DC Inside, with the image spotted by @faridofanani96. The machine translation states that the chipset upgrade is significant, as Genshin Impact ran for 45 minutes at a 1080p resolution without exhibiting any stability or performance issues. Since Genshin Impact is locked at 60FPS, the game likely ran at that framerate, delivering a smooth gameplay experience.
Since it is an engineering sample running the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, there is the possibility that the game can run at 60FPS at a higher resolution with additional tweaking. Earlier, we reported about the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4’s Adreno 830 GPU performance, with the 3DMark Wild Life Extreme Stress Test score rumored to have been 10 percent faster than the Apple M2 results.
Even if it is a rumor, the fact that a smartphone SoC got the better of an Apple Silicon designed explicitly for larger form factor machines such as Macs is a sight to behold, but there is also the consideration of power consumption, which is a metric that was not mentioned when performing the test.
Overall, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 shows tremendous promise, but we will wait for the commercial shipments to come through to see how Qualcomm’s upcoming flagship SoC holds up against the competition. MediaTek is also preparing its 3nm champion, the Dimensity 9400, for an unveiling later in the year, so it will be exciting to see both clash with one another.
News Source: DC Inside