Qualcomm has just announced its latest mid-range SoC, the Snapdragon 6 Gen 4. The company claims that this new chipset brings “powerful performance, extended battery life, and ultra-fast 5G connectivity”.
Overall, the Snapdragon 6 Gen 4 is quite the upgrade from the Snapdragon 6 Gen 3. It is said to have an 11% improvement in the CPU, thanks to Qualcomm’s latest Kryo CPU. It also has 29% better GPU performance and 12% power savings. Which is kind of a staple for the Snapdragon 6 series.
The Snapdragon 6 Gen 4 is able to support up to 200-megapixel cameras, and it also brings Snapdragon Low Light Vision to devices using this platform. It also supports up to 64-megapixel single camera at 30FPS with Zero Shutter lag, or up to 32MP and 16MP, or up to 16MP triple cameras.
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 6 Gen 4 is manufactured on a 4nm process
This new chipset is manufactured on a 4nm process, which isn’t quite as efficient as the Snapdragon 8 Elite. It’s also the same process as the Snapdragon 6 Gen 3. That’s not a bad thing, this 4nm process is still quite efficient.
Qualcomm is using an 8-core setup for the Snapdragon 6 Gen 4. That includes one Prime core that is up to 2.3GHz, three Performance cores that clock in at up to 2.2GHz, and four efficiency cores that are up to 1.8GHz.
Qualcomm FastConnect Mobile Connectivity System is here as well, with support for WiFi 6E. There’s no support for WiFi 7 on this chipset, which is perfectly fine. Many flagship phones don’t even support WiFi 7 yet. It does support up to 2.9GHz peak speeds over WiFi. And also has the Snapdragon 5G Modem-RF System which supports mmWave and Sub-6 5G networks.
The Snapdragon 6 Gen 4 is expected to be available in devices from OPPO and HONOR in the “coming months” according to Qualcomm. This announcement comes just a couple of weeks ahead of Mobile World Congress, so we could see new Snapdragon 6 Gen 4-powered phones announced in Barcelona at the beginning of March.
