Snapdragon 8cx Gen 4 appeared on Geekbench

It has been reported previously that Qualcomm has been developing and testing its Snapdragon 8cx Gen 4 since August 2022, but it has not been confirmed until recently when it suddenly appeared in the Geekbench 5 benchmark test under the device name “8cx Next Gen”.

According to TechPowerup, the test results for the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 4 were not impressive, with a single-core performance benchmark score of 613 points and a multi-core performance benchmark score of 5241 points. This score is not only much lower than that of Apple’s M2 Max chip (2070 points for single-core and 15356 points for multi-core) but also inferior to the third-generation Snapdragon 8cx (1010 points for single-core and 5335 points for multi-core).

Insiders suggest that this may be due to compatibility issues or because the chip is an engineering sample, as the test frequency was only 2.38GHz. Previously leaked information indicated that the performance core frequency of the fourth-generation Snapdragon 8cx can reach 3.4GHz, while the efficiency core frequency is around 2.5GHz. However, the Geekbench 5 database confirms the specifications of the fourth-generation Snapdragon 8cx, with an 8+4 architecture for the CPU, 8 performance cores, and 4 efficiency cores, which is consistent with previous information. This test was carried out on a platform with 16GB of memory and Windows 11 operating system.

This chip, codenamed “Hamoa,” uses NUVIA technology’s custom Oryon core and is compatible with the Arm instruction set. Its GPU is based on the Adreno 740 and supports DirectX 12, OpenCL/DirectML, and Vulkan 1.3. It is equipped with an AV1 codec and a Hexagon Tensor NPU that can provide 45 TOPS of AI performance. In addition, it supports LPDDR5X-4200 memory with a maximum capacity of 64GB, as well as NVMe, UFS 4.0, Wi-Fi 7, and Snapdragon X65 5G modem, and can even connect to an external discrete graphics card via Thunderbolt 4.