Meet the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 • HWzone

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A new set of commands, new cores, a new manufacturing process and new branding accompany the new senior mobile chip of the American developer, on the way to the battle for the kingdom of the Android market for 2022

A few weeks after the pleasant surprise provided to us by Mediatek with its Dimensity 9000, it’s Qualcomm’s turn to take action – and introduce to the world the processing chip that is expected to become the basis for a large number of flagships in the Android market over the coming year.

The rumored product with the name Snapdragon 898 became Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 and will offer an array of eight ARMv9 cores, with a senior Kryo Prime core based on Cortex-X2 with an operating frequency of up to 3GHz, three Cortex-A710 cores (or Kryo Gold) Powerful with an operating frequency of up to 2.5GHz and four more cost-effective Cortex-A510 cores (Kryo Silver) with an operating frequency of up to 1.8GHz, all under the latest 4 nm lithography from Samsung – so in terms of overall processing, the capabilities will be especially close to those of the chip. -Dimensity 9000 that uses the same array, with very similar frequencies and cache memories. At least on paper (when in reality we already know that chips may operate in different settings under the same application for a variety of heat and battery saving considerations that are not visible to end consumers).

Lots of improvements and lots of advanced technologies – not all of which have been given sufficient detail at this stage of the product life

The new built-in graphics adreno core of the chip, which has yet to get a model number like the ones we were used to seeing on every other Snapdragon chip from recent years, is designed to offer up to 30 percent performance improvement over the older Adreno 660 Snapdragon 888 / Snapdragon 888 Plus (with performance Theoretical 1,720GFLOPS, which brings us to an estimate in the region of 2,200GFLOPS for the new generation) – and there is also a four-channel LPDDR5 memory controller at 3,200MT / s as the base, which is a relative disadvantage compared to the Dimensity 9000 which also supports faster LPDDR5X memories.

The graphics core gives a jump similar to the one we’ve seen between generations of flagship products from Qualcomm in the past – and it’s interesting to find out if that’s enough to keep the Android Market’s performance queen, or we’ll have a makeover

Qualcomm has integrated a new senior Snapdragon X65 modem within the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, with support for second, third, fourth and fifth generation cellular networks including millimeter wave, so that the combined theoretical download speed reaches an exciting figure of 10,000 megabits per second, while the upload speed The maximum combo remains unchanged from the previous generation with up to 3,000 megabits per second. It also supports dual-channel Wi-Fi 6E wireless communication leading to theoretical transfer speeds of up to 3,600 megabits per second, as well as support for short-range 60GHz communications under 802.11ad / ay speeds of up to 10,000 megabits per second (which does not really work) Gaining market momentum in recent years, it seems).

Computational learning capabilities have also been pushed forward, although this time Qualcomm avoids publishing fully weighted TOPS performance and prefers to focus on interesting collaborations with software companies

The image processing engine in Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 includes support for sensors with a maximum resolution of 200 megapixels, photography of images up to 108 megapixels with ZSL technology (RT Zero Shutter Lag) and photography of up to three ZSL images with a resolution of 36 megapixels Pixel one at a time, in rapidly evolving computational photography worlds, plus support for 8K video capture with HDR at 30 frames per second, and 4k video capture with HDR at up to 120 frames per second.

It is not yet clear to us how other senior Qualcomm chip models will be prepared in the coming year, such as those designed to replace the Snapdragon 870 and Snapdragon 860

The mass availability of the new Snapdragon chips is expected in the first month of 2022, but Qualcomm’s partner manufacturers appear to be in line and planning to make formal announcements of smart devices based on the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 during the current month – so we can start debating what exactly We will want to buy when the models start to gradually land on the shelves.

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