On December 1, 2021, Qualcomm officially released the new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform at the annual Snapdragon Technology Summit. As a standard of next year's flagship model, the new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform redefines the new form of the future flagship mobile phone with its excellent performance, breaking through the technical boundaries on the basis of the original and giving terminal products stronger strength. While everyone is still playing with the new name of the Snapdragon 8 mobile platform that is more concise and clear, have you noticed that the Adreno GPU in it is no longer named after a number, opening a new generation.
A new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform
In addition to the renaming, the biggest highlight in this overall upgrade is the improvements made by the new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform in the GPU. Nowadays, for a terminal, graphic rendering ability and rendering speed is the most intuitive experience for users to use mobile phones, especially when the mobile game has become the main entertainment means for many users, large-scale mobile game events at home and abroad have also become a hot spot of national concern, people have new requirements for the picture quality of mobile games, how to present more grand scenes, more exquisite details and more realistic light and shadow effects to mobile game users, it has become a topic of common thinking of technology providers.
The new Adreno GPU brings a new gaming experience
Snapdragon 8 mobile platform equipped with the new Adreno GPU may be such a "hardcore product", compared to the previous generation, the image rendering speed increased by 30%, but the power consumption was reduced by 25%, with the Snapdragon 8 mobile platform 3.0GHz Cortex-X2 super core + 3 Cortex-A710 large core and four Cortex-A510 small core combination, to achieve the overall performance ratio of the combination.
The new Generation Snapdragon 8 mobile platform runs big games
During this Snapdragon Technology Summit, Qualcomm set up a special game experience area to visually show us how the terminal equipped with the new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform will have an effect when the game is actually running. The exhibition area displays domestic popular works including "Glory of the King", "Peace Elite" and "Original God", and we can see that the equipment using the Snapdragon 8 mobile platform can easily achieve the performance of "Glory of the King" 120Hz, and the operation of "Peace Elite" can also be perfectly reached 90Hz, and the original god picture is maintained at a stable 60Hz.
Here we have to mention the introduction of a new feature for the snapdragon Elite Gaming complete solution - the Adreno image motion engine. It is able to optimize motion estimation with historical frame data and GPU, generating more frames for a running game game, allowing the game to run at double frame rate without increasing power consumption. This makes the Snapdragon 8 mobile platform can fully cope with high frame rate games, which gives strong support to more games in the future on this indicator. At the same time, the Snapdragon 8 mobile platform is also optimized for CPU multi-threading, occlusion culling, delayed rendering, vertex shader load, etc., effectively reducing the GPU workload caused by computing, reducing the efficiency, and not overheating in temperature control.
Nowadays, most of the mobile game masterpieces will choose Unreal Engine (Unreal) as the development platform, and Qualcomm has been cooperating with Unreal Engine for 10 years, it can be said that Unreal Engine has played a crucial role in introducing Qualcomm in the Android field, and this year, Qualcomm has developed an exclusive optimization for Screen Space Ambient Occlusion based on Unreal Engine. Effectively improves Unreal Engine 4 standard scenario performance by 60%, Time Domain Anti-Aliasing Technology (TAA) by 50%, and brings a mobile version of Unreal Engine 5 next year.
Smoke effect rendered by the new Generation Snapdragon 8 mobile platform
In the future, on the equipment using the Snapdragon 8 mobile platform, we can see the realistic smoke effects simulated through stereoscopic rendering, through the high-speed calculation of particle graphics, with a picture effect comparable to the end game, whether in the face of particle light effects or smoke drifting, flow, can allow players to have a more immersive experience, which is not only for mobile phones to add functions, but also for XR devices.
In addition to the picture, snapdragon 8 mobile platform in the sound to add Snapdragon Sound Snapdragon listening technology, through cooperation with Audiokinetic and Wwise software, in the audio processing to mobilize Hexagon (AI) processor, can achieve ultra-high sound quality sound and 360 degrees of spatial audio and other features, so that the game's music and sound effects are more shocking and realistic, in the auditory sense of presence. Ensuring immersive gaming enjoyment while providing ultra-low latency audio and seamless voice and music, enhance the user's gaming experience in all aspects.
When it comes to mobile gaming, another crucial metric is naturally connectivity, the Snapdragon 8 platform integrates the 4th generation Of Snapdragon X65 5G modem and RF system, which can reach 10Gbps download rates at 5G network rates in millimeter wave and Sub-6G. Qualcomm FastConnect 6900 mobile connectivity system achieves the fastest Wi-Fi speed of up to 3.6 Gbps through Wi-Fi 6/6E. The 5G connection features with high reliability and low latency can meet the needs of large bandwidth and high network capacity in future efficient transmission and connection scenarios, and can be said to have the most competitive mobile connection strength in the market today.
Handheld machine equipped with the 1st generation Snapdragon G3x platform
In addition, the 1st generation of Snapdragon G3x platform released by Snapdragon at the summit also applies the same Adreno GPU as the Snapdragon 8 mobile platform, which supports 144FPS, 10-bit HDR game experience and Snapdragon Sound Snapdragon listening technology. In terms of transmission, the Snapdragon G3x also supports sub-6Hz 5G, millimeter wave 5G, Wi-Fi 6E and external 4K displays, which is a platform designed for portable mobile gaming devices. At present, Qualcomm has cooperated with Razer to develop a new handheld based on the Snapdragon G3x, which contains a 6.65-inch OLED screen, supports a maximum 120Hz refresh rate, and has a built-in 6000mAh battery, which is believed to become a new game carrier that can bring different experiences to developers and players.
The new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform is fully upgraded
In addition to game performance, Snapdragon 8 mobile platform in the connection, AI, imaging, audio, security have a comprehensive leap, as Qualcomm's most cutting-edge technology achievements of the set of the company, Snapdragon 8 mobile platform in the future for a long time will still be the first stare of the future Android flagship phone At the same time, the independence of the Snapdragon brand also allows Snapdragon to have greater room for development in the future, I believe that soon everyone will be able to personally experience the ultimate experience brought to us by the Snapdragon 8 mobile platform.