Qualcomm announced its Snapdragon 7 Gen 4 (SM7750-AB) chipset as a direct successor to the Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 from 2023. As you’d expect, the new 4nm chip offers sizeable performance gains over its two-year-old predecessor, including faster CPU, GPU and NPU.
Snapdragon 7 Gen 4 features an updated Kryo CPU with a 1+4+3 configuration. There’s 1x prime core @ 2.8GHz, 4x performance cores @ 2.4GHz and 3x efficiency cores @ 1.8GHz. Qualcomm claims 27% faster CPU performance over the SD 7 Gen 3.
The Adreno GPU gets a 30% boost compared to the previous gen chip. Qualcomm is also bringing select Snapdragon Elite Gaming features, including its Adaptive Performance Engine 4.0. The GPU also supports the HDR10, HDR10+, HDR Vivid and HLG codecs.
The updated Hexagon NPU inside the Snapdragon 7 Gen 4 offers a 65% boost in AI tasks with the ability to run Stable Diffusion 1.5 locally.
The chip supports up to LPDDR5 RAM and UFS 4.0 storage. SD 7 Gen 4 gets a triple 12-bit Spectra ISP with support for up to 200MP still images and 10-bit photos. Video recording tops out at 4K 30FPS.
The connectivity side includes sub-6 GHz 5G, Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6.0. The chip also supports the aptX Lossless, and aptX Adaptive audio codecs as well as Qualcomm’s Expanded Personal Area Network (XPAN).
Honor, vivo and realme will announce Snapdragon 7 Gen 4 phones in the coming months. Honor 400 is expected to launch as the first device with the new chip next week.
