On Thursday, Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 7 Gen 4. This is their sort-of mid-premium chipset, which you’d find in phones over $500 usually. Qualcomm says that leading OEMs “including HONOR and vivo are expected to announce the adoption of Snapdragon 7 Gen 4 in the coming months.”
Qualcomm notes that this new mobile platform is designed to “enhance users’ favorite multimedia experiences and deliver robust performance across the board.” This 4nm chipset sports the Qualcomm Spectra Image Signal Processor. This ISP is able to accommodate a single 64-megapixel camera, or 32MP and 21MP cameras, or triple 21MP cameras. It can also output a 200-megapixel photo capture. And that’s all with zero shutter lag. Meaning, you could see devices with higher-end cameras on the Snapdragon 7 Gen 4 platform, but not with Zero Shutter Lag.
Powering the Snapdragon 7 Gen 4 are eight cores: one Performance core up to 2.8GHz, four performance cores up to 2.4GHz and three efficiency cores up to 1.8GHz. It also has the Adreno GPU, ith support for HDR gaming, OpenGL ES 3.2, OpenCL 2.0 FP and Vulkan 1.3.
Snapdragon 7 Gen 4 offers support for unrivaled Gen AI features
Of course, it wouldn’t be a hardware announcement without mentioning AI. And the Snapdragon 7 Gen 4 does have support for “unrivaled Gen AI” features, powered by its AI Engine. This delivers cutting-edge, on-device capabilities. Including lightning-fast image generation with Stable Diffusion 1.5. This is actually brand new to the Snapdragon 7 series.
The Qualcomm AI Engine does support popular LLMs and offers smarter voice assistants, real-time translation, seamless content creation and much more.
We can’t forget about gaming either. The Snapdragon 7 Gen 4 has Qualcomm’s Adaptive Performance Engine 4.0 and Snapdragon Adaptive Configuration Engine. Essentially, you’ll get great gameplay experience on the Snapdragon 7 Gen 4, but not quite as good as what you’d get on Snapdragon 8-series chips.
2025-05-15 15:06:09