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Qualcomm’s latest chip is a huge CPU and GPU upgrade for popular phones
This is easily the biggest leap for a Snapdragon 6 series chip in the last few years.
Credit: Supplied by Qualcomm
- Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon 6 Gen 4 processor for budget phones.
- The new chip brings a more up-to-date CPU, a major GPU boost, and generative AI smarts.
- HONOR, realme, and OPPO will launch the first phones with this chipset in the “coming months.”
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 6 series chips power many cheap Android phones, but they don’t offer many modern features. However, the brand-new Snapdragon 6 Gen 4 brings quite a few notable upgrades to budget devices.
Starting with the CPU, the Snapdragon 6 Gen 4 delivers an 11% performance boost over the Snapdragon 6 Gen 3. That’s nothing big on paper, but the new chip is powered by the most modern CPU we’ve seen in the Snapdragon 6 series to date. Expect an octa-core setup consisting of one Cortex-A720 clocked at 2.3GHz, three Cortex-A720 cores clocked at 2.2GHz, and four power-sipping Cortex-A520 cores at 1.8GHz. Either way, it beats the aging Cortex-A78 and Cortex-A55 used in recent Snapdragon 6 chips.
