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Windows on ARM promises well: reveals Snapdragon 8cx Gen 4 specs

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News Windows on ARM promises well: reveals Snapdragon 8cx Gen 4 specs Pierpaolo Figuccia January 23, 2023 0 Today, famous leaker Kuba Wojciechowski shared information about the Qualcomm

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Windows on ARM promises well: reveals Snapdragon 8cx Gen 4 specs

Today, famous leaker Kuba Wojciechowski shared information about the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen4 chip codenamed “Hamoa”.

Windows on ARM promises well: reveals Snapdragon 8cx Gen 4 specs

Kuba Wojciechowski revealed in a tweet that Qualcomm is internally testing a SoC codenamed “Hamoa”, which can be equipped with a maximum of 8 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores. This processor will be part of the “Windows on Arm” category and will be sold to laptop, PC and tablet manufacturers.

Wojciechowski added that “Hamoa” can reach each of the 8 high-performance cores with a clock frequency of 3.4 GHz; Each of the 4 efficiency cores has a clock frequency of 2.5 GHz, while the difference is 900 MHz.

Additionally, every 4 cores of the chip is a block, and each block has a 12MB shared L2 cache, which means that 3 blocks provide 36MB of L2 cache. Additionally, they come with 8MB of L3 cache, 12MB of system-level cache, and 4MB of GPU cache. The SoC supports up to 64GB of RAM LPDDR5X running at 4200MHz.

Wojciechowski also confirmed that Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen 4 will borrow GPU Adreno 740 from Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 and support DirectX 12, OpenCL/DirectML and Vulkan 1.3 libraries. You can provide support for a discrete GPU via PCIe 4.0.

The GPU will be able to manage 2 screens in 4K and 1 screen in 5K at the same time for a total of 3 screens. The chip supports 4K/120 FPS decoding and 4K/60 FPS encoding using the AV1 codec.

Additionally, the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 4 will include a more powerful NPU Hexagon Tensor capable of delivering up to 45 TOPS in theoretical IA performance.

Processors that support NVMe, UFS 4.0 and Thunderbolt 4 and DisplayPort 1.4a connections. The chip supports Wi-Fi 7 and the communication module is X65.

Finally, the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 4 will be released in 2024.

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