Following the flagship series Find X5/X5 Pro, the latest product of OPPO’s high-end series, Reno8 Pro, has also been upgraded to dual-core, and Mariana MariSilicon X has sunk from flagship to high-end series, allowing Reno8 Pro/Pro+ to achieve 4K 30fps video recording The specifications also support the ability of AI video enhancement, making night scene photos more clear, and portrait photos more natural, realistic and transparent.
The shipments of high-end Reno phones will be several times that of flagship Find phones. Liu Bo, president of OPPO China, revealed at the Reno8 conference that since its launch in 2019, the number of online users of the entire Reno series has exceeded 40 million. This has a positive effect on OPPO’s self-developed chips to reduce costs and accumulate experience.
What’s more interesting is that the dual-core of Reno8 Pro is also two versions, Dimensity 8100-Max plus Mariana’s Reno8 Pro+, and the first-generation Snapdragon 7+ Mariana processor Reno8 Pro.
In recent years, MediaTek’s offensive to compete for the high-end mobile phone market share is obvious, and the Reno8 Pro+ is undoubtedly the key battle for MediaTek to attack the high-end market.
The dual-core sinks, and the high-end mobile phone imaging function has reached a new height
Mariana MariSilicon X is OPPO’s self-developed image-specific NPU (Neural Network Processor), using TSMC’s 6nm process, with an ultra-high energy efficiency ratio of 11.6TOPS/W, with the main control SoC Dimensity 8100-MAX 5G processing platform, and The world’s first-generation Snapdragon 7, the dual-core collaboration of Reno8 Pro/Pro+ can bring significant improvements in photography capabilities.
The most important value of the dual-core mobile phone with the main control chip and image conversion on the market today is to improve the image function, especially the video shooting effect in the dark light environment. This is because large computing power is required to achieve more natural AI photography and real-time optimization of video shooting, but general-purpose SoCs have limitations in both computing power and algorithms.
Therefore, the Android mobile phone camp chose to add an additional chip to the main control processor to improve the image performance of the mobile phone.
However, if you want to improve photography capabilities, it is not enough to rely on a dedicated imaging chip. The mobile phone imaging system is a long chain, including front-end sensors, lenses, motors, ISP chips that carry image processing, and back-end calibration and tuning processes.
On the OPPO Reno8, working with the Mariana MariSilicon X to enhance photographic performance is also a custom camera that works much like the human visual system.
The front camera of the OPPO Reno8 series is a 32-megapixel super-sensitive cat’s eye camera, which integrates OPPO’s self-developed RGBW image fusion unit and RGBW four-in-one pixel fusion algorithm, which greatly increases the amount of light entering, and the sensitivity of the previous generation product is increased by 60%, and the noise is reduced by 35%. %, bringing a more extreme night scene portrait Selfie effect. The rear is equipped with a 50-megapixel Sony flagship outsole main camera, with flagship-level configuration.
The image function upgrade of the Reno8 series can be described as the most “expensive” image upgrade of the Reno series.
With dual cores, the Reno8 series can achieve 4K 30-frame recording, which was impossible in the past due to insufficient computing power, and supports AI video enhancement. It can easily cope with low light environment and backlight environment, and realize chip-level 4K ultra-clear night scene video and chip-level 4K HDR video.
Of course, the photo performance of the Reno8 series has also been greatly improved. OPPO test data shows that the two chips can increase the average dynamic range by 26% under different illumination. This can lead to more delicate and more realistic color photos, and it can also well retain details in super-backlit scenes.
The ultra-high computing power of the AI computing unit of 18 trillion times per second can bring natural, realistic and transparent selfies. It can also recognize the noise in the picture and eliminate them one by one just like the way the human eye perceives the world. , retain more details.
From the actual experience of Leifeng.com, with the blessing of Mariana MariSilicon X, the dark-light video shooting effect of Reno8 Pro+ is indeed improved to the naked eye.
When high-end mobile phones have dual cores, they can have chip-level 4K ultra-clear night scene video and 4K HDR video shooting capabilities, which means that the competition for high-end mobile phone photography capabilities has reached a new level.
What value does Mariana take to OPPO’s self-developed chips?
From the perspective of consumers, when OPPO applies its self-developed chips to high-end mobile phones, it can enjoy better mobile photography functions without increasing the budget.
From OPPO’s point of view, applying self-developed chips to high-end series, increasing the selling point of the Reno8 series is the easiest value to see, and the second is to let the value of self-developed chips be displayed in more mobile phones. Liu Bo revealed that OPPO has made a huge investment, placing orders for tens of millions of chips from TSMC.
The cost of designing a chip with an advanced manufacturing process is high. The fixed cost of TSMC’s 6nm used by Mariana’s MariSilicon X exceeds hundreds of millions of dollars. Therefore, if it is a chip company, to be profitable, it first needs to sell a large number of chips to amortize fixed costs.
However, Leifeng.com believes that when OPPO applies Mariana to the Reno series with larger shipments, cost is not their primary consideration. The more important consideration is to make more consumers aware of the value of OPPO’s self-developed chips , and the long-term value accumulated by OPPO’s self-developed chip experience.
As OPPO’s first self-developed chip, Mariana is more valuable in helping the OPPO chip team to run-in, verify product performance, and accumulate experience.
Mariana NPU is just the starting point for OPPO’s self-developed chips. Its longer-term goal is to build a unique competitive advantage through self-developed chips like Apple and Huawei.
The high-end battle between MediaTek and Qualcomm
OPPO Reno8 series, Reno8 Pro+ is the version of Dimensity 8100-Max (8GB+256GB version is priced at 3699 yuan
The 12GB+256GB version is priced at 3999 yuan), and the Reno Pro is the Snapdragon 7 version (8GB+128GB version is priced at 2999 yuan, 8GB+256GB version is priced at 3199 yuan, and 12GB+256GB version is priced at 3499 yuan).
From the perspective of OPPO, it will definitely be committed to providing consumers with a similar experience in the same series of products, but the differences in the underlying hardware may indeed reflect differences in daily use. There are higher configurations for heat dissipation and storage.
From the perspective of hardware parameters alone, the first-generation Snapdragon 7 platform adopts Samsung’s 4nm process technology. The CPU architecture is one A710 super core with a main frequency of 2.4GHz, three large cores of A710 at 2.36GHz, and four 1.8GHz cores. A510 small core, the GPU is the same Adreno 660 of the Snapdragon 888, the graphics rendering speed is increased by 80% compared with the previous generation of the Snapdragon 778G, and the AI performance is increased by 30%.
Dimensity 8100-Max adopts TSMC 5nm process, octa-core CPU architecture design (4 Arm Cortex-A78 cores with a main frequency of 2.85GHz and 4 Arm Cortex-A55 energy efficiency cores), and the GPU adopts six-core Arm Mali-G610.
The mobile phone is a complex system, and the mobile phone SoC is only one of the important factors that affect the mobile phone experience. Just put two processors with the same positioning in the same series of products. Although there are some configuration differences, it also allows Qualcomm and MediaTek to compete on the same platform.
The high-end and flagship mobile phone market is a market that all mobile phone manufacturers and mobile phone chip companies are competing for.
Strategy Analytics predicts that flagship phones will account for about 31% of the global market in 2022 and 35% in 2027. In addition, by 2027, the market share of high-end mobile phones will reach 17%, and flagship mobile phones will account for more than 50% of the entire mobile phone market.
The main players in the mobile phone market are all staring at the cake of the flagship market. How will this cake be divided in the end?
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