On the evening of May 20th, Snapdragon Night, Qualcomm officially released the long-rumored Snapdragon 8+ and Snapdragon 7 mobile platforms. As the main mobile platforms in Snapdragon, Snapdragon 8 and 7 series have greatly improved their performance, experience and power, bringing new impetus to the mobile phone market this year.
first generationbraveDragon 8+ Mobile Platform: Better performance and lower power consumption.
Every generation of Snapdragon 8 series mobile platforms was the focus of the market at that time. The previously launched Snapdragon 8 has been well-known terminal mobile phone manufacturers at home and abroad, such as OPPO, vivo, Glory, Xiaomi, Yijia, Samsung, etc., with its outstanding performance in AI, video and games. The adoption of Snapdragon 8+ has been affirmed, and the performance, video, games, connectivity and other experiences have been upgraded:
-In terms of AI, it supports the seventh-generation Qualcomm AI engine, which improves energy efficiency by 20%;
-In terms of audio, it supports Snapdragon Sound Snapdragon listening technology, including Qualcomm aptX Lossless lossless audio technology;
-In terms of connection, it supports the 5G downlink rate of up to 10Gbps, and supports the user scenario of 5G+5G dual-card dual-pass, which can ensure that data transmission and phone calls do not conflict with each other, and maintain the industry-leading level in the speed of 5G uplink carrier aggregation and Wi-Fi;
-In terms of images, it supports taking photos with a maximum of 200 million pixels, supporting simultaneous shooting of 8K HDR video and 64 million pixel photos, and single-frame progressive HDR;
-In terms of games, it supports HDR games, VRS Pro, stereoscopic rendering and physical rendering features;
-In terms of security, Snapdragon 8+ also supports Android Ready SE authentication, which can provide vault-level security features.
The CPU comprehensive performance of Snapdragon 8+ is about 10% higher than that of Snapdragon 8, and the highest CPU frequency is also increased to 3.2GHz. At the same time, Snapdragon 8′ s GPU has reached the leading position in the industry in terms of performance and energy efficiency. On this basis, Snapdragon 8+ will continue to increase the frequency by about 10%, which will further improve the extreme GPU performance.
With the enhancement of performance and other characteristics, people pay more and more attention to the power consumption of mobile phone processors, and the power consumption endurance performance of Snapdragon 8+ has also been improved obviously.
Snapdragon 8+ adopts TSMC’s latest 4nm process, which makes its power performance more excellent. When running Aztec Ruins, the GPU power consumption of Snapdragon 8+ is 30% lower than that of Snapdragon 8, and the energy efficiency of Snapdragon 8+ will be more advantageous in the same performance. The picture on the right shows the comparison of CPU. The CPU of Snapdragon 8+ uses Cortex-X2, A710 and A510, which are very large cores. The CPU power consumption of Snapdragon 8+ is about 30% lower than that of Snapdragon 8 under the same performance.
Compared with Snapdragon 8, Snapdragon 8+ reduces the power consumption of the whole SoC by 15%. On the performance of the whole machine, except CPU and GPU, Qualcomm has also made great adjustments in other modules, which makes the overall SoC performance excellent.
In the performance of e-sports games, first of all, take the familiar "Bench" as an example. When the ambient temperature is 25 degrees and the highest picture quality is 810p, the Snapdragon 8+ curve is very stable after continuous testing for 1 hour, and the frame rate fluctuates little, and the average frame rate can reach 60.2 frames. In terms of power consumption, the average power consumption of Snapdragon 8+ can be reduced by 30% compared with Snapdragon 8 under the same test environment and conditions.
In addition, let’s take a look at the performance in "the glory of the king", and intercept two sets of test scenes of 90 frames+extreme image quality and 120 frames+high definition image quality. Compared with Snapdragon 8, the energy efficiency of Snapdragon 8+ has improved by about 30% in both cases.
For the daily usage scenarios of users, based on the battery capacity equal to less than 4000mAh, Qualcomm also gave the endurance data of more scenarios of Snapdragon 8+ compared with Snapdragon 8:
-In terms of games, Snapdragon 8+ is nearly one hour longer than Snapdragon 8, and quite a lot of it is played in the 3 rd and 4 th innings of the glory of the king;
-Video playback time can be increased by more than 80 minutes, which is close to the length of a movie;
-Voice calls and WeChat video calls under the 5G network also increased by more than 5.5 hours and 25 minutes respectively;
-social media, web browsing and App browsing can increase by more than 50 minutes, which is close to an extra commute time;
-The most amazing thing is playing music. The playing time of Snapdragon 8+ music can be increased by nearly 17 hours.
According to the above rich usage scenarios, it is believed that the increase of battery life will be one of the most obvious experience upgrades that Snapdragon 8+ brings to users.
Overall performance, the main frequency of Snapdragon 8+ GPU increased by 10%, the overall performance of CPU increased by 10%, and the highest main frequency of CPU reached 3.2GHz. The overall power consumption of SoC is reduced by about 15%, and the power consumption of CPU and GPU is reduced by 30% respectively.
first generationbraveDragon 7 mobile platform: 4nm process andbraveDragon 8 feature blessing
In addition to the first generation of Snapdragon 8+, Qualcomm also launched the first generation of Snapdragon 7 mobile platform, which is the first appearance of Snapdragon 7 Series platform after the brand naming system in Snapdragon was updated. Snapdragon 7′ s CPU is sunk on the basis of Snapdragon 8, which adopts a super-large core of A710 with a main frequency of 2.4GHz, three large cores of A710 with a frequency of 2.36GHz and four small cores of A510 with a frequency of 1.8GHz. On the whole, Snapdragon 7 has inherited the characteristics of Snapdragon 8, which is quite different from the previous generation of Snapdragon 778G. In terms of process, Snapdragon 7 adopts Samsung’s 4-nanometer process to achieve lower power consumption and longer battery life.
This time, Snapdragon 7 Series mobile platform brought three firsts:
Snapdragon 7 is the first 7-series platform supporting the 7th generation Qualcomm AI engine. Compared with the previous generation Snapdragon 778G, the detection accuracy of Snapdragon 7 can be improved by 25%, and the area required for face recognition is reduced from 25×25 pixels to 20×20 pixels, and it can detect up to 300 facial feature points, which is the same as that of Snapdragon 8. I believe that many friends have encountered the situation that people’s eyes are closed when taking pictures. If we can achieve more accurate face detection, we can only take pictures when people’s eyes are open or when people are smiling.
Secondly, Snapdragon 7 is also the first 7-series platform that supports 200 million pixels shooting. It is based on 14-bit three ISPs, and can support the single-frame progressive HDR feature, which significantly improves the image quality compared with the previous generation Snapdragon 778G.
Finally, Snapdragon 7 has sunk the features of Qualcomm Trust Management Engine supported by Snapdragon 8 to the 7-series platform for the first time, and has also passed the Android Ready SE certification, which can provide vault-level security features.
In addition, Snapdragon 7 can also provide a good performance in the mobile game experience, mainly through the following aspects:
First, the GPU graphics rendering speed of Snapdragon 7 is 20% higher than that of Snapdragon 778G. Snapdragon 7 also supports some Snapdragon Elite Gaming features, including Qualcomm Adreno image motion engine, which is a GPU-based frame prediction technology, which can save half the power consumption at the same frame rate or provide a higher frame rate at the same power consumption.
Snapdragon 7 also supports Game Quick Touch, which ensures that the touch response speed of the game can be improved by more than 20% compared with that of Snapdragon 778G, and supports top GPU features such as variable resolution rendering. In addition to GPU, the game experience is closely related to CPU, display, connection and other factors. In terms of display, Snapdragon 7 supports QHD+ display, which is more detailed than FHD+ display supported by Snapdragon 778G.
In terms of audio, Snapdragon 7 supports the Snapdragon Sound Snapdragon listening technology, which can prevent howling in the game and dynamically adjust the volume according to the real-time audio environment/scene.
In terms of connection, Snapdragon 7 is the first 7-series platform that integrates Snapdragon X62 5G modem and RF system conforming to Release16 standard, with the highest downlink rate of 4.4Gbps, which is obviously improved compared with the previous generation Snapdragon 778G, and it can also support 5G+5G dual card dual communication. Wi-Fi has been upgraded from the previous generation of FastConnect 6700 to FastConnect 6900, which can provide faster and ultra-low latency Wi-Fi connection.
Generally speaking, the mission of Snapdragon 7 is to sink the best mobility characteristics and innovation of Snapdragon 8. The first generation of Snapdragon 7 can provide an excellent gaming experience, which is enhanced by GPU, supported by some Snapdragon Elite Gaming features, immersive audio experience, display features, and some connection features that first landed on Snapdragon 7 Series.
Finally:
According to Qualcomm’s official announcement and current rumors, mobile phone products equipped with Snapdragon 8+ and Snapdragon 7 mobile platforms will be launched as soon as this quarter by brands such as Black Shark, Glory, iQOO, Lenovo, Xiaomi, moto and Nubia, and PConline will also pay attention to it with you.
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