Every year, when Qualcomm releases its flagship mobile phone SoC, it will release a “Plus version” mobile platform based on the same process but with “overclocking” and other methods to significantly improve the performance after nearly half a year.
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In the past period of time, with the gradual maturity of new processes and new processes in mass production, the market and mobile phone manufacturers also need a more powerful mobile SoC platform to prepare the material basis for the upcoming launch of new flagship mobile phone iterations in the second half of the year. , This product iteration cycle sets the product release rhythm of almost all Android flagship mobile phone manufacturers. The “Plus version” released in the second half of each year often means a more radical performance release and a more stable overall user experience.
But this situation has changed a lot on the Snapdragon 8+ released tonight: First of all, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 series, in the process selection part of the Plus version, has changed from the Samsung 4nm of the Snapdragon 8 to the Snapdragon 8 series. In addition to the greatly improved yield and relatively better power consumption control, the TSMC 4nm process of the Dragon 8+ is also a more expected part of the Snapdragon 8+.
In addition, the catching up of competitors including Dimensity 9000 / 8100 has also put new pressure on Snapdragon 8’s market share in flagship Android phones. In addition, due to the yield rate of Snapdragon 8 Samsung 4nm process technology and the energy efficiency ratio of ARM architecture and other factors, the actual power consumption performance of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ using TSMC’s 4nm process has become the most concerned about this chip by many people. part.
In the CPU part of the Snapdragon 8+ mobile platform, the same ARMv9 architecture as the Snapdragon 8 is still used, which consists of one Cortex-X2 super core + three Cortex-A710 performance cores and four Cortex-A510 energy efficiency cores.
However, in the highest frequency part of the CPU of the Snapdragon 8+, compared with the increase of the Snapdragon 8 from 3.0GHz to 3.2GHz, the CPU performance was improved by 10%; and the GPU part was also increased by 10%. While improving performance, it further reduces the overall running power consumption of the SoC.
Judging from the current data released by Qualcomm, in terms of power consumption performance, compared with the Snapdragon 8, the CPU/GPU power consumption of the Snapdragon 8+ has been reduced by nearly 30%. Of course, since the new phone equipped with Snapdragon 8+ has not yet been released, we have not been able to obtain more and more detailed test data for this part. We can only wait for the subsequent launch of new phones equipped with Snapdragon 8+, and conduct a more in-depth energy efficiency test to judge the optimization of battery life and heat generation of Snapdragon 8+ relative to Snapdragon 8.
In addition to the energy efficiency ratio data on paper, Qualcomm also specially demonstrated the performance of the Snapdragon 8+ when running a typical “baking machine masterpiece” such as “Yuanshen”: in the official test data given by Qualcomm, in “Yuanshen” 》Running for 60 minutes and 810p image quality, the average game frame rate can be maintained fairly stable at around 60fps.
But for today’s Android flagship mobile phone experience, the performance of mobile phones in high-load scenarios such as games is important, but it is far from the only criterion for judging mobile phone experience. This point has also been mentioned many times in the answer of Ma Xiaomin, senior director of Qualcomm marketing, when he accepted the question of Geek’s Choice.
Therefore, when it comes to the actual experience part, the power consumption of Snapdragon 8+ is reduced, which also means that the battery life of mobile phones used in daily use can be further increased. In addition, a series of new technologies including “Snapdragon Vision” have appeared when Snapdragon 8 was released. The standard has reappeared in the specifications of the Snapdragon 8+.
In addition to the Snapdragon 8+, the first Snapdragon 7 series SoC after the new naming method, the Snapdragon 7 mobile platform, was also released tonight with the Snapdragon 8+.
Among them, the “Snapdragon Listening” technology improves the connection stability, anti-interference and performance of Bluetooth device playback by optimizing a series of hardware such as Qualcomm Snapdragon SoC, baseband, Bluetooth audio SoC, and voice communication suite on the playback device. Music playback quality. These futures also have the opportunity to appear on smartphones powered by the Snapdragon 7 mobile platform.
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In addition to “Snapdragon listening”, the three ISP 14bit concurrent shooting, Android Ready SE trust management engine and other functions that have appeared in the Snapdragon 8 series flagship phones before have been “delegated” to the configuration list of Snapdragon 7. .
In addition, the Snapdragon X62 5G modem on the Snapdragon 7 supports a download rate of up to 4.4Gbps, and also supports the data card + calling card to achieve dual-card dual standby under the 5G network at the same time. These can bring the comprehensive experience of the mobile phone in the 5G scenario. to improve more.
In the second quarter of this year, we will see flagship phones equipped with Snapdragon 8+ appearing one after another. At that time, Geek’s Choice will also bring you more information on the new machine equipped with the Snapdragon 8+ platform at the first time, so stay tuned.
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