Most top-tier Android telephones and tablets use both Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 or 8+ Gen 1 System-on-a-Chip (SoC) designs from Qualcomm. Now there’s a brand new chip on the block for subsequent 12 months’s large gadgets: the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2.
On the firm’s Snapdragon Summit 2022, which is being celebrated in sunny Hawaii, Qualcomm introduced its latest top-tier chip for telephones and tablets. It can doubtless make an look in gadgets from Samsung, ASUS, and OnePlus subsequent 12 months, and it’s packing fairly the punch.
The brand new Kryo CPU, which is sporting a brand new, Arm Cortex-X3-based Prime core operating at as much as 3.2 GHz, performs as much as 35% higher than the earlier era. We additionally get 4 efficiency cores operating at 2.8 GHz and three effectivity cores operating at 2.0 GHz. So far as graphics go, the brand new Adreno GPU performs 25% higher, whereas additionally being 45% extra environment friendly than earlier than. Given how loopy highly effective the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 already was, we’re excited to see the prospects of how this chip will carry out.
Efficiency isn’t every little thing, although. Qualcomm is claiming huge AI workload enhancements, with the corporate saying you must anticipate as much as 4.35 occasions higher AI efficiency than on earlier chips. It’s additionally the very first Snapdragon chip that comes with INT4 precision help for 60% higher efficiency/watt.
The chip additionally contains new AI options for cameras. The Qualcomm Spectra 18-bit triple Cognitive ISP (that’s a mouthful) is promising real-time Semantic Segmentation, which Qualcomm says can “acknowledge and optimize” a number of components of a body, comparable to your face, your hair, or the background. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 additionally helps as much as 200MP cameras, which can most likely change into all the craze now, in addition to 8K HDR video recording.
Different enhancements embrace the Snapdragon X70 5G modem, which provides “5G AI,” no matter which means, in addition to Wi-Fi 7, making certain your telephone can be prepared for the newest know-how as quickly because it’s out — as a result of what’s scorching proper now’s Wi-Fi 6E, and Wi-Fi 7 received’t be out till at the least a few years. You additionally get Snapdragon Safe, to maintain your telephone and information protected from malicious actors, and Snapdragon Sound, which now contains spatial audio.
You’ll be able to anticipate the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 to reach beginning in 2023, though some corporations may wish to get began sooner than standard.