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Snapdragon 8 gen 2 has arrived and will be there to serve Android phones of 2022, it will have a lot of performance and efficiency upgrades over the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1.
The chip is fabricated on the same 4nm node as the Apple A16 Bionic, and hence, these two chips are likely to have comparable performance. Qualcomm, however, has gone for a different chip architecture this year to boost the raw performance of the chip. On paper, performance has improved on all fronts.
The new Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
- Even though Qualcomm lays all its focus on power efficiency, the chip offers notable performance upgrades.
- The new Kryo CPU used here promises up to 35 per cent higher performance and 40 per cent better power efficiency.
- There's a new Cortex-X3-based Kryo Prime core that runs at 3.2GHz, accompanied by four performance cores clocked at 2.8GHz, which brings 5 performance cores in total.
- The efficiency cores are reduced to just three, but clocked at 2GHz.
- Then there's the GPU that premises 25 per cent improved performance and 45 per cent better power efficiency.
- Similar to the Dimensity 9200, it supports hardware-accelerated ray tracing.
- The chip also supports up to LPDDR5X RAM and UFS 4.0 storage format. Hence, Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 phones are expected to offer much faster read/write speeds.
Other major highlights include support for the QHD+ display up to 144Hz or 4K display at 60Hz, and AV1 video decoding is also supported now for the QHD+ display up to 144 Hz or 4K display at 60Hz, and Av1 video decoding is also supported now. When it comes to the cameras, the chip is optimized to work with Sony. Phones can record up to 8K HDR video and 30fps, 4K at 120fps and Dolby Vision recording.
The first devices powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 will be here by the end of 2022, says Qualcomm
Qualcomm confirmed the following companies will be launching Snapdragon 8 Gen 2-powered devices: Redmagic, Honor, ZTE, Xiaomi, Meizu, Vivo, Sony, Redmi, OPPO, nubia, Motorola, OnePlus, Sharp, Asus, and iQOO.