Stefan Mileschin

Analysis: Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 proves it

Qualcomm recently launched a new flagship Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 and proved it still can maintain a significant distance between its nearest chipset competitor.

In December 2022, the company announced a new benchmark in the high-end phone market, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. It launched in hundreds of new phones and is powering all Oppo, Vivo, Xiaomi, and even Samsung high-end phones. Just short six months later, the company announced a next-generation updated SoC branded as Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1. The company has confirmed in a briefing that the new Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 is using a new TSMC 4nm manufacturing process. The new SoC has 10 percent high CPU and GPU performance but thirty percent higher efficiency.

The fastest high-performance Cortex-X2 core is now clocked at up to 3.2GHz, performance cores now go to 2.75GHz and efficiency cores go up to 2.0GHz. This is a significant boost in clocks across the board, with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 working at 3.0GHz, 2.5GHz, and 1.8GHz, respectively, but this is just the tip of the iceberg.

The key gain is in the efficiency that will enable games to run longer, phone apps to work for a longer time, and even significantly longer voice and video calls. Video calls via apps are on the rise, and running a camera and display all the time, seems to be a significant edge case scenario for many customers. Pandemic learned us the importance of video telephony that was just enforced by WiFi6, WiFi6E, or 5G, whatever fast connection was at your disposal.

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