New Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 leak reveals tentative launch window and Geekbench performance

More information about the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 has started trickling in via Digital Chat Station on Weibo. The leaker states that the SoC is scheduled for a mid-October release, which sits in line with Qualcomm's teaser. This tacitly tells us the Xiaomi 15 series, the first smartphones to use the silicon, could arrive earlier than usual, at least in China.

The information comes after a Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 engineering sample benchmark leak confirmed its CPU core layout, although its performance left a lot to be desired. However, the aforementioned sample was not running at full speed. Its two performance cores can clock up to 4.0 GHz, resulting in a Geekbench 6 single-core score of ~2,700, not nearly enough to trounce Apple silicon but impressive nonetheless.

Similarly, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 can potentially score 10,000 points in the benchmark's multi-core test. While that is enough to trounce whatever Apple has to offer, it could face stiff competition from the MediaTek Dimensity 9400, which is rumoured to duplicate its predecessor's all-performance-core layout. Then there's the Samsung 3GAP-made Exynos 2500 to be worried about, too.