Just when everyone was still speculating about the launch time of Xiaomi 12, Lenovo directly released the first moto edge X30 equipped with Snapdragon 8 Gen1 chip on the 9th.
I have to say that in the first place, Lenovo's resentment is still quite deep, in the case of the first two times they have pounced on the street, this year they held their breath and came prepared.
Really sat in the "starting" seat... ▼
Not only that, the moto edge X30 is also the first Android mobile phone with an tutu running score to break through the 1 million mark, with a price of 2999 yuan, and it is full of fierceness.
It's a pity that Tony's good sisters are not very reliable this time, and they can't get this "world's first mobile phone equipped with Snapdragon 8 Gen1" at the first time.
But after turning around the Internet, I found that everyone's "enthusiasm" for this mobile phone is still very high, not the moto edge X30 itself, but the fever of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen1...
No way, last year's "Fire Dragon 888" is too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, Qualcomm can not fight a turnaround battle, everyone's eyes are all on this Snapdragon 8 Gen1
Tony first said the conclusion Ha, the problem of new processor heating still exists, but it is much better than last year's situation.
According to the test of Xiaobai evaluation, Qualcomm's generation of Snapdragon 8 Gen1, the performance of the GPU is exceptionally fierce, under the 20 rounds of 3D Mark extreme stress test, the running score directly crushed the full blood version of the A15.
But at the same time, the energy consumption and heat generation in exchange are also huge, and the maximum temperature of the 10-minute fuselage, the snapdragon 8 Gen1 is still among the best.
Good guys, it seems that Qualcomm's "fire dragon" directly evolved into "Blazing Dragon", and while gpu performance has risen sharply, the heat is also a little bit down.
To put it simply, in terms of comprehensive performance, Snapdragon 8 finally saw the taillights of Apple A15, but the heat situation was still not completely solved.
However, according to the latest updated processor ranking of Geek Bay, the CPU multi-core performance of Snapdragon 8 is really not good, and the score is even not as good as the launch of the Kirin 9000E and its predecessor 888 for nearly two years.
Although Tony did not get started with this moto X30, you can think about it with your toes and know that this is certainly not the optimization limit of the Snapdragon 8 Gen1.
After all, expecting Lenovo to optimize a new processor in such a short period of time is as unrealistic as expecting Lao Luo to buy back a hammer and start making mobile phones again.
So Tony feels that the current performance of the Snapdragon 8th Gen1 on the moto X30 still feels that there is still a lot of room for improvement.
Looking at it this way, it is acceptable.
After all, after the "high temperature baptism" of the 888 in the past year, the major mobile phone manufacturers have experienced hundreds of battles in the face of the fever of the new generation of Snapdragon 8.
If the fever is serious, the heat dissipation tablet is plugged, and if it does not work, the heat dissipation back armor is always more than difficult.
There are so many Snapdragon 8 Gen1 models in the follow-up that have not been released, and small partners who want to try early, do not have to rush at this time.
If Qualcomm has done its best in the design of the chip, then the hot pot can only be thrown to Samsung, which is the chip for them.
Nowadays, Samsung is in the chip OEM, the level is indeed "secondary".
In fact, not only Qualcomm, Nvidia's graphics card products have also been affected by Samsung's "low-quality" chip foundry, and the heat generation has not reached the best standard of design.
Nvidia's next generation of products will start using TSMC's 5nm.▼
However, because of a series of reasons such as the epidemic in 2021, the output and stock of chips are already in a "sub-healthy" state.
Needless to say, the chip production capacity must be full, and the remaining orders can only be picked up by Samsung at a lower price.
The second is the second point, and it can also be used.
The insider details here, you can turn over the article that Tony wrote before, and it is more detailed.
The good news is that qualcomm is said to have handed over part of the Snapdragon 8 Gen1 order to TSMC to do, Andny felt that if there is really a manufacturer's mobile phone, the heat gap should be quite large...
But then again, Soc is not the whole of a mobile phone, the new generation of Snapdragon 8 in the end, but also depends on the manufacturers in the optimization of each magic.
Even if the heat problem can not be solved, Snapdragon 8Gen1 is also a fierce product that can output 8KHDR and 18 bit Raw, ah, light rush this point, Tony does not believe that no manufacturer is willing to polish well.
Finally, Tony would like to talk about Lenovo's wave of "head-snatching" operations.
According to the gossip of the roadside gossip agency, the reason why Lenovo was able to grab the moto X30 before Xiaomi was because they directly ran to the United States Qualcomm to ask for goods, so in terms of speed and price, no one can have an advantage over them.
Whether this behavior is true or false, good or bad, Tony is not sure, but Lenovo's wave of operations is indeed in a number of snapdragon 8 Gen1 new flagships, taking the lead.
Flagship machine new chip debut, can sell less than 3000 yuan price, the next millet 12 plans to continue to do price benchmarking, Tony is really a bit for Ray always pinch a sweat...
Anyway, the first round of the 2022 mobile phone war has just begun, and the pressure has already come to Xiaomi's side.
Author: Jihao Editor: Polygon Line
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