Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 To Feature Next-Gen Adreno 830 GPU That Is Rumored To Be 10 Percent Faster Than Apple M2 In 3DMark Wild Life Extreme

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Qualcomm plans to bring the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 to smartphones next year, bearing the company’s first custom Oryon cores. While we expect those CPU designs to be impressive and possibly rival Apple’s A-series chipsets, a rumor alleges that we should also pay attention to the silicon’s new Adreno 830 GPU. While no specification details have been provided, an early 3DMark Wife Life Extreme result claims that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4’s next-generation graphics processor is 10 percent faster than Apple’s M2.

While no 3DMark Wild Life Extreme screenshot was provided by tipster Revegnus, he claims that the Adreno 830 obtained a score that is 10 percent higher than what was achieved by Apple’s M2 in the same test. Remember that there are two M2 variants, each sporting a different number of GPUs, with the top-end configuration maxing out at 10 GPU cores. The Adreno 830 was said to have scored 7,200 points, which aligns with the 10 percent performance difference between the M2 featuring an 8-core GPU.

3DMark’s Wild Life Extreme is intended to push smartphone and tablet chipsets to their thermal limits, test their efficiency levels, and show how they handle sustained workloads over a period of time. Given that both the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 and Dimensity 9400 launching next year are rumored to be mass produced on TSMC’s 3nm process, we expect improved power efficiency compared to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and the upcoming Dimensity 9300.

8G4 is very powerful. Is it thanks to the 3nm process?

Adreno 830 holds a comprehensive 10% performance advantage compared to Apple M2's GPU. In 3DMark Wild Life Extreme, it achieved a score of 7200 points.

CPU is also very powerful.

- Based on Geekbench 5: Single-core 2000+…

— Revegnus (@Tech_Reve) November 4,