Rumors of the Snapdragon 8 Gen3 being the successor to the current Snapdragon 8 Gen2 have given way to new information that this time points directly to Snapdragon 8 Gen4a next-generation chip that will arrive in 2025 and will have everything to become one of the most powerful SoCs today.

According to a new rumor, Snapdragon 8 Gen4 will be a very big evolution compared to Snapdragon 8 Gen3, especially in CPU performance. To illustrate, the source provided specific numbers and points to performance 2070 points and 9100 points in Geekbench 5’s single-threaded and multi-threaded tests. For comparison purposes, the Snapdragon 8 Gen3 would achieve 1,800 and 6,500 points.

Yes, I know it’s a huge leap and you’re probably wondering how such a dramatic improvement is possible. The answer is very simple, thanks to Oryon. It is not about new architecture, but about the customization layer that Qualcomm uses based on its ARM cores. This is very important so that you don’t get confused, after all it is ARM that is present in any Snapdragon SoC at the CPU level, even if you read different names in each block of cores.

These customization layers are nothing new, they have been around in the smartphone sector for years and are used by other big companies in the industry such as Apple and Samsung, allowing for significant performance improvements over the standard ARM architecture. In the case of Snapdragon 8 Gen4, we’re talking about Oryon’s customization layer, which promises improve multi-threaded performance by up to 40%.

Another interesting thing that this leak tells us is that the Snapdragon 8 Gen4 SoC will be manufactured on TSMC’s 3nm node and that it will have a configuration two high performance cores and six high efficiency cores. This division deviates from the norm, and to show the button, the Snapdragon 8 Gen2 has eight cores divided into a high-performance Cortex-X3 core, two Cortex-A715 cores, two Cortex-A710 cores and three Cortex-A510 cores.

At the end of the customization layer they are of great importance when we talk about ARM CPUs, and you only have to look at the results that Apple has achieved with its A Bionic series SoCs and with the M1 and M2 to realize this. With that in mind, I think it’s clear that this new strategy for Qualcomm could be successful and that it would allow it to strengthen its position in the sector.