In February 2024, Qualcomm's Chief Marketing Officer said at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) that Snapdragon mobile platforms will be reinvented with the Oryon CPU, and it turns out to be true. A leaked image (via Smartprix) reveals that Qualcomm is indeed bringing Oryon CPU cores with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4.
Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 is here 🔥
The new Oryon core, developed by the Nuvia team at Qualcomm, is already available on the Snapdragon X series processors for Windows PCs including the Snapdragon X Elite and Snapdragon X Plus. The newly designed CPU core is hailed as mighty powerful but also draws relatively more power than Apple's chipset.
Aside from that, the image also confirms that the upcoming flagship chipset is moving to a 3nm process node, likely developed at TSMC's foundry. Next, Snapdragon 8 Gen 4's leaked Geekbench listing confirms that it will be a 2+6 CPU setup with 2x Oryon cores clocked at 4.09GHz (a first for mobile Snapdragon chipsets), and 6x Oryon cores clocked at to 2.78GHz.
In addition to the Oryon processor, the image says there will be two Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 variants – SM8750 and SM8750P – a standard variant and likely a higher performing variant for exclusive use on the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S25 series.
