The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is tipped to offer a 20% performance boost
The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is tipped to offer a 20% performance boost
The Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 doesn’t run nearly as hot as the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. Its power efficiency is really good, so if the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 will offer the same, those are actually good news. We were amazed by the difference between the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 and Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1, to be quite honest. A performance boost is always welcomed, as long as it doesn’t affect the thermals and power consumption. That being said, this is not the first time we’re hearing about the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 details. Not at all. In fact, a well-known tipster, Ice Universe, shared quite a bit of details last month.
The chip is expected to deliver “greatly improved” GPU, NPU, and ISP
The chip is expected to deliver “greatly improved” GPU, NPU, and ISP
He said that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is coming with a “greatly improved” GPU, NPU, and ISP. Those are all great news, needless to say. He also wrote that TSMC is making this chip, and that it will be a 4nm chip. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 was made by Samsung, while the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 was manufactured by TSMC. Considering the improvement the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 represented, it’s good to see the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 is also coming from TSMC. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 will move to a four-cluster architecture it seems. Its two predecessors actually use a tri-cluster setup. This chip is expected to utilize three Cortex-A510 cores clocked at 2.0GHz, two Cortex-A710 clocked at 2.8GHz, and two Cortex-A715 cores set at 2.8GHz. The last, but not least, is one Cortex-X3 core clocked at 3.2GHz. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is expected to arrive in the near future. Qualcomm will announce it before the end of the year, and we’re guessing it’s coming in November, but we’ll see. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 launched on November 30.
