At the Snapdragon Technology Summit held in early December, Qualcomm officially launched a new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform, Snapdragon 8 series mobile platform has been the first choice for flagship mobile phones over the years, and this year is of course no exception, including Xiaomi, OPPO, vivo, Glory, ZTE and other mobile phone brands have announced at the first time that they will launch flagship mobile phones based on a new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platforms, and in the next period of time, flagship new products will appear one after another. Today we will take a look at what kind of experience upgrade the new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform will bring to flagship mobile phones.
More stable and smooth network connection capabilities
In the 5G era, network connectivity is crucial, and giving full play to the advantages of 5G connectivity can not only obtain higher network speeds, but also bring earth-shaking changes to the user's networking experience. Of course, the development of 5G is not achieved overnight, but needs to evolve step by step.
The International Communications Standards Organization 3GPP has determined the latest version of the 5G specification, that is, the recently often seen Release 16, referred to as the R16 standard, for consumers, R16 standard is committed to bringing users higher data rates, coverage and reliability, so support for the R16 standard will improve the user's 5G network experience in the next period of time.
Snapdragon 8 mobile platform to achieve support for R16 standards, the new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform built-in 4th generation Snapdragon X65 5G modem, not only support R16 standard, but also support millimeter wave and Sub-6G hybrid carrier aggregation, so that there will be a great improvement in network speed, according to Qualcomm laboratory data show that Snapdragon X65 can reach 10Gbps download speed, uplink speed also reached 3.5Gbps, but also let the smartphone into the 10 Gigabit network era.
Due to 5G deployment problems, although the current measured network speed may reach an unrealistic peak, there is no problem from the technical level, and with the continuous evolution of 5G, peak network speed will also become possible. The advanced deployment of the new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform in network technology makes the equipment equipped with the new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform technically not backward even if it takes more than a few more years.
In addition to 5G connectivity, the WiFi connection experience is also very important for users, and online videos and online games are inseparable from WiFi networks. For WiFi connectivity, the new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform adopts Qualcomm FastConnect 6900 mobile connection system, which supports Wi-Fi speeds of up to 3.6Gbps through Wi-Fi 6/6E. This ensures that games and applications can run smoothly even when there are multiple networked terminals in a networked environment.
Achieve 8K HDR video shooting comparable to professional equipment
Mobile phones have replaced the camera, become the daily camera equipment of mass users, with the increase of network speed, users share videos on social platforms more and more frequently, video has become a new direction in the social field, so the user's demand for video is also constantly improving.
To this end, the new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform has also been upgraded for ISPs, ISPs are mainly used in the field of mobile phone photography, the previous ISP only supports 14-bit, and now, the new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform equipped with the first 18-bit ISP for mobile devices, not only can make the color of the picture more abundant, but also greatly improve the performance of isPs, can achieve 3.2 billion pixels per second processing power, Image dynamic range capture capabilities are more than 4,000 times higher than the previous generation, supporting more extreme dynamic range, color and clarity.
With the blessing of 18-bit ISP, the new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform can take 240 12 million pixel photos per second, supporting up to 200 million pixels of photo shooting, so that future flagship mobile phones can have more functions to achieve in taking pictures.
Users can also use the equipment of the new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform to take 30 photos for multi-frame synthesis, thereby improving the transparency and dynamic range of the picture, especially in low light and highlight environments, the multi-frame composite performance of the new generation Of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform will effectively improve the quality of photos.
In terms of video, the new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform also realizes the shooting capability of 8K 30 fps HDR10+ video, reaching the level of professional equipment, and the picture quality and color performance of the video can be guaranteed. If you shoot 4K video, you can reach 120fps, and the smoothness of the video screen will reach a surprising point.
From the new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform will lay a very good camera foundation for the next flagship mobile phone, based on the new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform, the mobile phone will have better performance in terms of shooting quality and color, color matching algorithms and flagship sensors developed by major manufacturers, the new generation of Snapdragon 8 in photography to bring upgrades is still very worth looking forward to.
A wider range of AI application scenarios
Among the functions of all mobile phones, the role of AI may be the lowest sense of existence, the current application of AI, the highest degree of perception should be the photographic level, so many times AI is talked about together with photography, including the hottest computational photography this year, are inseparable from the support of AI technology.
Therefore, although the perception of AI is not high, it has a very important role, and strong AI performance will support mobile phones to achieve more complex image computing. The new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform is equipped with the 7th generation Qualcomm AI engine, including ultra-high performance, ultra-energy-efficient Qualcomm Hexagon processor, compared with the previous generation, tensor accelerator speed and shared memory are increased to 2 times the previous generation platform, relying on powerful AI performance, to achieve Leica Letz style filters.
Leica Letz-style filters simulate the leica camera's camera style through AI, so that the phone will have a more professional effect when taking photos, especially when shooting black and white photos, not only can bring richer levels of black and white, but also can show rich details.
In addition, relying on AI technology, the mobile phone equipped with the new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform can identify 300 feature points of the face in real time, the speed is 3 times higher than before, and the face recognition can be accurately carried out in the ultra-wide-angle mode, which will be better helped to prevent distortion. In addition, if this technology is combined with beauty photography in the future, it will also bring about improvements in the beauty effect.
The application of AI on the new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform is not only this, Qualcomm is also currently working with partners to carry out sound analysis functions based on AI technology, through sound to determine whether users have asthma or depression and other conditions, the future we will see more abundant AI application scenarios.
Another feature of AI is the fact that there is a fact, whether it is in the system operation scheduling, photography, games, etc., more or less THERE IS INVOLVED, so AI needs to remain online at all times, so that it can quickly complete the processing of relevant data. The new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform equipped with the third generation Qualcomm sensor hub can maintain the AI system with a very low power consumption, ensuring that ai can do more work at low power consumption.
The game is guaranteed to be smooth while providing better picture quality
Games have always been one of the most important functions of mobile phones, how to package the smooth operation of the game is very important for game manufacturers and mobile phone manufacturers, in the previous direction of everyone's efforts are smooth, and when the performance and technology of the mobile phone reach a new height, in addition to the smooth, the requirements for picture quality have also increased, both smooth, but also high quality has become a new trend in future games.
How do you achieve both fish and bear paws? Qualcomm mainly starts from two aspects, first of all, in the new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform, Qualcomm is equipped with a new generation of mobile GPU Adreno 730, compared with the previous generation, the new Adreno GPU graphics rendering speed increased by 30%, power consumption reduced by 25%. At the same time as the performance upgrade, Qualcomm also added Adreno image motion engine technology, which can achieve twice the number of frames at nearly the same power consumption, solving the problem of game fluency.
In addition, Qualcomm also added a variable resolution rendering advanced version for the new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform, in the game screen, for the user's attention to the key parts, the screen is still maintained complete rendering, resulting in higher image quality, and the edge of the screen is partially rendered, the limited performance is prioritized in the part that the user is most concerned about, thereby improving the picture quality of the game screen.
Finally, Qualcomm also brings stereoscopic rendering technology to the new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform, with the help of this technology, it can improve the rendering effect of particle graphics, and screens such as smoke will obtain more realistic effects, which also plays a role in improving the quality of the game.
In addition to these new technologies, the new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform also supports more than 50 optimizations of the previous Snapdragon Elite Gaming, which makes the new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform have excellent performance in terms of gaming.
In order to meet the personalized needs of different players for game settings, the GPU control panel has been added to the new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform, so that gamers can also implement separate GPU settings on mobile devices such as mobile phones.
In the future, during the game, players can set the GPU setting interface to set frame rate, resolution and other information, and can adjust the performance output of the GPU more targetedly, so as to make the game screen smooth and stable, bringing the game experience at the end game level.
Give wireless headphones lossless audio performance
Now wireless headphones have become a trend, more and more mobile phones cancel the 3.5mm headphone jack, for ordinary users, perhaps such a change has not brought impact, but for users who love music, will worry about the performance of wireless headphones in sound quality.
In order to improve the sound quality of wireless headphones, Qualcomm has added Bluetooth 5.2 and Snapdragon Sound Snapdragon listening technology to the new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform to ensure the stability of wireless connectivity. In conjunction with Qualcomm aptX Lossless audio technology, wireless headphones can have CD-level sound quality performance.
Mobile phone security reaches vault level
Mobile phones have become the most important tool for everyone, and a lot of important information will also be stored in mobile phones, such as bank card information, personally identifiable information, etc., so the security of mobile phones should also be further enhanced. The new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform is the first Snapdragon platform to use a dedicated trust engine, providing a higher level of security for mobile phones, requiring additional trust confirmation when calling mobile phone information.
The new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform has reached the Android Ready SE standard at the security level, which applies to digital car keys, digital driver's licenses, etc., and has reached a very high level of security.
summary
From the release of the new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform, we can see that from Qualcomm's point of view, the future flagship mobile phone is not simply the pursuit of extreme performance, performance is only one of the characteristics of the flagship mobile phone, and in other fields, the flagship mobile phone should also have a better experience, the flagship mobile phone is more important is a comprehensive experience.
The new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform for the flagship mobile phone laid a good experience foundation, for the user cares about the performance, games, cameras, network and security and other aspects of the model are optimized and upgraded, the future terminal manufacturers based on the new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform on the basis of the corresponding tuning optimization, in terms of experience is still very worth looking forward to.