Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 unveiled: faster, more efficient, with ray tracing and Wi-Fi 7 - GSMArena.com news - GSMArena.com

Today the Qualcomm squad unveiled its caller flagship - the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset. Performance has been improved connected each fronts compared to the Gen 1 exemplary – show that we volition soon acquisition arsenic the archetypal devices based connected the Gen 2 are conscionable astir the corner.

This spot is formally known arsenic the SM8550-AB and is fabbed connected a 4nm node. Here are much details astir its components.

CPU and GPU

Qualcomm has focused connected improving powerfulness efficiency, but the caller spot inactive brings appreciable speed-ups. The caller Kryo CPU trio delivers up to 35% higher show with up to 40% higher efficiency.

The timepiece speeds are the aforesaid arsenic connected the 8+ Gen 1, but the halfway creation is not. The azygous Kryo Prime halfway (based connected Cortex-X3) runs astatine 3.2GHz (3.1872GHz to beryllium exact) to present precocious single-threaded performance. This clip around, however, it is backed by 4 Performance cores (instead of three) to amended grip multi-threaded workloads – these cores tally astatine 2.8GHz. Finally, determination are 3 (not four) Efficiency cores astatine 2.0GHz.

The Gen 2 brings enactment for new, faster representation technologies. For RAM it works with LP-DDR5X astatine up to 4,200MHz (up from LP-DDR5 astatine 3,200MHz). For retention it tin usage the caller UFS 4.0 format (up from UFS 3.1).

The latest Adreno GPU promises up to 25% higher show with up to 45% higher powerfulness efficiency. It besides brings enactment for hardware accelerated ray tracing to the Snapdragon platform. Now that ray tracing hardware is disposable from the large chipset vendors for Android, we whitethorn spot mobile crippled developers clasp the caller tech similar they did connected PC and console. Also, this GPU is the archetypal to enactment Vulkan 1.3 (along with OpenGL ES 3.2).

The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 tin thrust on-device displays with QHD+ solution astatine up to 144Hz oregon 4K ones astatine up to 60Hz. It besides supports outer displays up to 4K astatine 60Hz (with 10-bit Rec. 2020 colour gamut, HDR10+ and Dolby Vision to boot). Qualcomm besides yet enabled AV1 video decoding – streams up to 8K astatine 60fps (with HDR) are supported.

Cameras

Qualcomm boasts that Sony sensors with Digital Overlap HDR (DOL-HDR) and Samsung’s 200MP HP3 person been optimized to enactment with the Snapdragon ISP. Like its predecessor, the Gen 2 brings a triple 18-bit ISP that tin grip up to 3 36MP cameras (30fps) simultaneously oregon spell up to 200PM for a azygous camera. 108MP sensors are supported with zero shutter lag.

For video, the chipset tin grounds 8K HDR footage astatine 30fps (and seizure 64MP photos simultaneously), 4K astatine 120fps and bash slow-motion videos excessively (720p astatine 960fps). It supports respective HDR formats including HDR10+, HLG and Dolby Vision. Using DOL sensors, it tin seizure up to 4 exposures for each framework of video.

Connectivity

The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 upgrades to the caller Snapdragon X70 modem. It supports some mmWave and sub-6GHz 5G, of course. Its highest downlink speeds are 10Gbps, highest uplink is 3.5Gbps (similar to its predecessor).

This modem supports Dual-SIM, Dual-Active (DSDA) cognition wherever 2 5G SIMs (or 5G+4G) are progressive astatine the aforesaid time.

Local connectivity brings features the upcoming Wi-Fi 7 modular (802.11be), acknowledgment to the caller FastConnect 78000 system. It tops retired astatine 5.8Gbps (up from 3.6Gbps connected the erstwhile chip). Besides speed, the caller modular besides lowers latency (Qualcomm calls it "wire-like").

Snapdragon 8 Gen 2's FastConnect 7800 strategy brings Wi-Fi 7 and low-latency Bluetooth

As before, the FastConnect strategy has Bluetooth 5.3 connectivity. With the latest Snapdragon Sound strategy it tin present 48kHz lossless euphony streaming arsenic good arsenic the lowest-ever 48ms latency for gaming.

There isn’t overmuch to study connected for wired connectivity – the spot does USB 3.1 with Quick Charge 5 (which is conscionable a wrapper astir the USB Power Delivery standard).

AI

The caller Hexagon processor introduces enactment for a caller INT4 format for the archetypal clip connected a mobile Qualcomm chip. It promises 60% amended show per Watt than erstwhile techniques.

The Hexagon is faster successful wide excessively – Qualcomm claims that AI show has been accrued 4.35x. That powerfulness tin beryllium roped into helping the camera by recognizing which parts of the representation are a face, hair, clothes, inheritance and truthful connected and applying processing otherwise to them.

Coming soon

The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 volition beryllium adopted by large Android makers, Qualcomm lists the pursuing successful its property release: Asus ROG, Honor, iQOO, Motorola, nubia, OnePlus, Oppo, Red Magic, Sharp, Sony, vivo, Xiaomi, Meizu and ZTE.

It goes connected to accidental that the archetypal phones based connected the Gen 2 volition beryllium disposable earlier the extremity of this year, but doesn’t accidental which makers volition beryllium first. There is nary notation of Samsung and the upcoming S23 series.