Qualcomm is expected to officially unveil the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 in October this year, so it is no surprise that the flagship’s engineering sample is being thoroughly tested and benchmarked to iron out the problems before commercial units are sent to the company’s phone partners. However, early results show that the chipset’s performance is beyond disappointing, with the performance cores said to be running at a significantly lower resolution than what previous reports suggested.
Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 engineering sample likely throttling, leading to lowered clock speeds and a ‘less than ideal’ AnTuTu score
We have reported earlier that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 was being tested with a boost clock speed of 4.00GHz and above, with the design rumored to be finished in April. This would mean that the SoC would obtain a high single-core score. Combine the aforementioned frequency and its ‘2 + 6’ CPU cluster, and you can expect a massive boost to multi-threaded performance. Unfortunately, none of these attributes are witnessed in a benchmark video posted on the Chinese website Bilibili, which was spotted by @negativeonehero.
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As you can tell from the images, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 does not exceed the 2.40GHz clock speed limit and only obtains a score of 1.85 million in AnTuTu. These lackluster results could be due to thermal throttling since there are occasions when engineering samples exhibit such behavior. Then again, an early Geekbench 6 leak revealed that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 not only obtained a 46 percent multi-core lead against the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, but it comfortably beat Apple’s A17 Pro too, and was competing with the M3.
Additionally, the rumored Adreno 830 GPU was allegedly faster than Apple’s M2 in 3DMark’s Wild Life Extreme benchmark. The AnTuTu results show a completely different side of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4. However, before we start voicing our disappointment over the lack of impressive results, an X user with the handle @TangS63121 claims that the specifications and other details are from a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 engineering sample, with the image seemingly altered.
This means that we should definitely treat the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 score with a truckload of salt, but at the same time, we will keep our eyes peeling for more benchmark leaks like this to gain some clarity.
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