Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 Mobile Platform
Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 Mobile Platform
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Level up your gaming adventures and unleash your power with the Snapdragon® 8s Gen 4.

Empowering performance and incredible efficiency come from our prime performance Qualcomm® Kryo™ CPU and newly sliced Qualcomm® Adreno™ GPU architecture, extending your favorite premium experiences for even longer.

There's no better way to harness enduring power and performance than through legendary gaming experiences. This platform packs the entire suite of Snapdragon Elite Gaming™ features, including Real-time Hardware-Accelerated Ray Tracing with Global Illumination. Marvel at authentic light rays, shadows, and reflections. Game ...

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Benefits

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Empowering performance
Our prime performance Kryo CPU delivers incredible efficiency, along with 31% improved performance and 3.2 GHz peak speeds. Plus, this platform sees power efficiency improvement for sustained gaming, streaming, browsing, and everything in between.
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Legendary gaming
Our sliced Adreno GPU architecture features dedicated memory per slice, enabling optimal graphics efficiency with up to 49% improved performance. The comprehensive suite of Snapdragon Elite Gaming™ features, including the Qualcomm Adaptive Performance Engine and Adreno Frame Motion Engine 2.0, work in harmony to deliver ultra-smooth, high-performance gaming sessions while significantly enhancing power efficiency.
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Masterful photography
The Qualcomm Spectra™ 18-bit Triple AI ISP fuels next-gen capture with features like Limitless Segmentation, able to recognize and enhance up to 250 layers within an image at 4K resolution. Real-time skin and sky tone correction captures natural color tones in challenging environments and Night Vision 2.0 records ultra-low light videos at a smooth 4K30 FPS.
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Advanced Gen AI
Seamless on-device generative AI experiences, including support for multimodal and multilingual AI assistants are made possible by our Qualcomm AI Engine also, which features a faster NPU and 2x larger shared memory with improved bandwidth and up to 44% faster AI performance. The AI Engine also supports a variety of LLMs and LVMs, providing seamless speed and enhanced privacy with on-device processing.
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Top notch 5G and Wi-Fi 7 Connectivity
The Snapdragon 5G Modem-RF delivers outstanding AI-powered 5G connectivity performance with peak download speeds up to 4.2Gbps and more spectrum flexibility—all while maintaining astonishing efficiency. Our Qualcomm® FastConnect™ Mobile Connectivity System offers responsive Wi-Fi 7 at up to 5.8Gbps, while supporting various premium features like High-Band Simultaneous (HBS) Multi-Link for greater bandwidth and Bluetooth® 6.0 with Bluetooth Channel Sounding technology for proximity capabilities.

*All comparisons made are to previous generation, Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 Mobile Platform.

Features

  • Our Qualcomm® AI Engine includes:
    • Qualcomm® Hexagon™ NPU
      • 2x larger shared memory for improved memory bandwidth
    • Qualcomm® Sensing Hub
    • Support for INT4 and INT8 precisions 
  • Snapdragon Elite Gaming™ Features
    • Real-time Hardware Accelerated Ray Tracing with Global Illumination for improved lighting, shadows, and reflections
    • Qualcomm Adaptive Performance Engine provides ultra-fast and super-smooth performance while providing longer gameplay sessions
    • Snapdragon Game Super Resolution 2.0 intelligently upscales low-res game scenes in up to 4K
  • Our Qualcomm Spectra™ AI ISP features:
    • Real-time Semantic Segmentation for photo/video with up to 250 layers
    • Real-time skin and sky tone correction intelligently captures natural color tones even in challenging environments
    • Night Vision 2.0 captures detailed videos in low light at 4K30 FPS
    • An always-sensing camera enables features like hand gestures, face unlock, and QR code scanning
  • Featuring our integrated AI-accelerated Snapdragon® 5G Modem-RF System
  • Qualcomm® FastConnect™ Mobile Connectivity System offers leading Wi-Fi 7 with speeds up to 5.8 Gbps and Bluetooth® 6.0 technology 
  • Supports Snapdragon Sound™ Technology Suite
    • Qualcomm® Expanded Personal Area Network Technology (XPAN) keeps earbuds and headphones connected via Wi-Fi for untethered, whole-building audio coverage
  • Snapdragon Seamless experience connects all your compatible devices so you can switch between them intuitively and quickly
Specifications
Qualcomm® Artificial Intelligence (AI) Engine
GPU Name
Qualcomm® Adreno™
CPU Name
Qualcomm® Kryo™
Qualcomm® Hexagon™ Processor Features
Qualcomm® Hexagon™ Scalar Accelerator, Qualcomm® Hexagon™ Tensor Accelerator, Qualcomm® Hexagon™ Vector eXtensions (HVX), Dedicated power delivery system, Micro Tile Inferencing, Hexagon Direct Link, Large shared AI memory, Fused AI Accelerator architecture
Qualcomm® Sensing Hub Features
Dual-core AI processor, Always-sensing camera
CPU
Name
Qualcomm® Kryo™
Architecture
64-bit
Clock Speed
3.2 GHz
GPU
Name
Qualcomm® Adreno™
APIs
OpenGL® ES 3.2, Vulkan® 1.3, OpenCL™ 2.0 FP
Cellular Modem-RF
Modem Name
Snapdragon® 5G Modem-RF System
Peak Download Speed
4.2 Gbps
Cellular Modem-RF Specs
4x4 MIMO (Sub-6)
Performance Enhancement Technologies
Qualcomm® Wideband Envelope Tracking, Qualcomm® 5G Ultra-Low Latency Suite, Qualcomm® 5G AI Suite, Qualcomm® 5G PowerSave Gen 3, Qualcomm® Smart Transmit™ Gen 5 technology
Cellular Technology
5G NR, HSPA, sub-6 GHz, TDD, LTE, WCDMA, FDD, SA (standalone), NSA (non-standalone), CDMA 1x, EV-DO, GSM/EDGE, EN-DC, CBRS
Multi SIM
Dual SIM Dual Active (DSDA) 5G+5G and 5G+4G
Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi/Bluetooth System
Qualcomm® FastConnect™ Mobile Connectivity System
Peak Speed
5.8 Gbps
Generation
Wi-Fi 4, Wi-Fi 5, Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 7
Standards
802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n, 802.11ac, 802.11a, 802.11ax, 802.11be
Spectral Bands
6 GHz, 5 GHz, 4 GHz
Channels
320 MHz
Peak QAM
4K QAM
Features
MU-MIMO, OFDMA (UL/DL), MU-MIMO (UL/DL), High Band Simultaneous (HBS) Multi-Link, 8x8 Sounding

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Product

CPU

Clock Speed

Cellular Modem-RF

Modem Name

Camera

Image Signal Processor (ISP) Bit Depth

Charging

Qualcomm® Quick Charge™ technology support

Process Node and Technology

Process Node

Premium Tier

Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 Mobile Platform
Active

Up to 3 GHz

Snapdragon™ X70 5G Modem-RF System

18-bit

Qualcomm® Quick Charge™ 5 technology

4 nm

Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Mobile Platform
Active

Up to 3.4 GHz1

Snapdragon™ X75 5G Modem-RF System2

18-bit

Qualcomm® Quick Charge™ 5 technology

4 nm

  1. Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Mobile Platform also available in 3.0 GHz or 3.3 GHz CPU version. Maximum CPU speed will vary based on platform version. Consult OEM specifications for device CPU speed
  2. 5G Modem capability will vary based on platform version.
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