Snapdragon 8cx Gen 4 Engineering Sample Shows Up On Geekbench With 12-Core CPU Configuration, RAM, Clock Speed Details Also Shown

The Snapdragon 8cx Gen 4 is said to be Qualcomm’s first SoC sporting the company’s custom Oryon cores, and multiple specification details of the SoC were now spotted on Geekbench. Unfortunately, the chipset obtains a low single-core and multi-core score, but thankfully, what you are about to read refers to an engineering sample.

Snapdragon 8cx Gen 4 is beaten by the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 with fewer CPU cores, indicating a commercial version will take time to arrive

The codename mentioned in the Geekbench screenshots is ‘Hamoa,’ suggesting that this is indeed, Qualcomm’s upcoming silicon. Sadly, evidence spotted by Twitter user Gustave Monce shows rather low single-core and multi-core scores, showing that the silicon is still under testing and likely needs additional tweaks before it shows performance numbers that rival Apple’s M-series.

In the Geekbench screenshot, we noticed that there is also a ‘Power Plan,’ meaning that users will probably have the option to let the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 4 run at a higher performance level or lower its clock speeds to deliver extended battery life. This feature is usually present in Windows desktops and notebooks, and the engineering sample was allegedly tested with Windows 11. On this occasion, the Power Plan was running at ‘Balanced.’

Early sample of the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 4 shows a 12-core CPU, but it achieves a poor score on Geekbench

We also reported on a massive specifications leak of the upcoming Snapdragon SoC, talking about its 12-core CPU configuration. That same configuration was spotted on Geekbench, showing eight performance cores and four power-efficiency ones. However, where the lowest clock speed is listed as 2.38GHz in the screenshots, the low-power cores are supported to operate at 2.50GHz. Then again, Geekbench always shows the lowest possible frequencies, so we do not believe this is anything to be concerned about.

The current-generation Snapdragon 8cx Gen 4 beats the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 4

The Snapdragon 8cx Gen 4 can support up to 64GB LPDDR5 RAM, and the engineering sample is showing 16GB memory, which is not out of place. What was out of place was that the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 is actually faster than the engineering sample, but there is nothing to be disappointed about this as it is usual behavior from engineering samples. However, we hope that a commercial unit is spotted on Geekbench 6 as quickly as possible, so we can look at its performance with a cleaner impression and compare it to Apple’s M2 Pro and M2 Max.