At this time, everyone must already know it, just a few days ago, Xiaomi released its third-generation high-end flagship Xiaomi 12 Pro.
As Xiaomi's first mobile phone equipped with Qualcomm's new generation Snapdragon 8 mobile platform, the performance of the 12 Pro has attracted much attention as soon as it was launched.
It turns out that Xiaomi does have two shots in terms of mobile phone heat dissipation and performance tuning.
12 Pro King Glory half-hour test, the average frame rate of 119.9fps, temperature 43.5 °C; the original god half-hour test, temperature limit 48 °C, the average frame rate of 57fps, this game performance can be said to be quite OK.
However, the biggest surprise brought to me by xiaomi 12 pro this time is not its balanced performance, nor its first self-developed charging chip, but its new breakthroughs achieved on mobile phones based on the Snapdragon 8 mobile platform.
From these new breakthroughs, I not only saw the true strength of this Snapdragon 8, but also made me understand something that had been confusing for a long time.
That is why so many Android flagships are willing to choose to carry the Snapdragon mobile platform is not without reason, but because it is really in place in all aspects, almost almost the manufacturers light up the skill tree!
Take the preparation of the Snapdragon 8 platform in terms of imagery.
Its Snapdragon Sight imaging technology includes three 18-bit ISPs (Image Signal Processors) that capture more than 4,000 times the previous generation at 3.2 billion pixels per second.
It is thanks to the huge improvement in the computing performance of the Snapdragon 8 ISP, so Xiaomi chose to directly give the 12 Pro three 50 million pixels of ultra-clear three main cameras, and also realized the super night scene of the full focal length.
On the one hand, the improvement of imaging quality and night shooting capabilities is that the 18-bit ISP has also taken the video shooting capabilities of mobile phones to a whole new level.
First of all, it supports video shooting with the 8K HDR specification on smartphones for the first time.
This is another leap in mobile photography after snapdragon 845 first supported 4K HDR and Snapdragon 865 took the lead in supporting 8K video shooting, and the ultimate clarity of 8K resolution combined with HDR with more than one billion colors brought by the video quality is absolutely top-notch.
At the same time, Snapdragon also built a dedicated engine for real-time background bokeh of video in 18-bit ISP, so that we can see the bokeh background effect through preview when shooting video, and the video can still have a soft portrait bokeh.
In order to allow the image sensors on the phone to take full advantage of the ISP of the Snapdragon platform, Tony noted that Snapdragon has also partnered with Sony to form a new joint lab to help mobile phone manufacturers achieve better image quality in less time.
In the future, if conditions permit, Snapdragon may even directly participate in the development of Sony's image sensors in the future, and strive to improve the imaging capabilities of mobile phones to a new level through the complementary advantages of the two technical collaborations.
Therefore, over the years, on the surface, the competition of various manufacturers in the image track has become more and more "inner volume", making the imaging capabilities of mobile phones constantly breaking through and improving, in fact, behind them are indispensable to the silent promotion of the Snapdragon platform
At present, I have not seen any manufacturer can fully pull the image strength of the Snapdragon 8, it seems that they are planning to hold a big move in the back.
After talking about the image, let's take a look at the AI capabilities of the Snapdragon 8.
The Snapdragon 8 mobile platform is powered by the 7th generation Qualcomm AI engine – the most powerful and fastest AI engine built by Qualcomm to date, with up to four times the performance of the previous generation and support for floating-point operations for the first time.
On the previous Xiaomi mobile phones, in fact, there are already a lot of image processing work that will be applied to the AI performance of the platform, such as the common super moon in the camera, magic sky change, scene detection and document mode and other functions.
This time, Xiaomi is through the use of the Snapdragon 8 platform's powerful AI computing power and ISP capabilities, on the 12 Pro to bring us a rapid photo and everything to chase focus, so that the phone photo becomes fast and stable.
In addition to the previous AI dedicated to complex operations, there is actually a new AI subsystem in the Snapdragon 8 that relies on the 3rd generation Qualcomm sensor hub, which can always run at extremely low power consumption.
The addition of an AI subsystem can help the phone process more data information, such as it can automatically track our daily workout activities, or automatically turn on navigation and turn on voice control mode when it detects that you are driving.
If paired with the fourth ISP that exists on the Snapdragon 8, a new low-power smart perception ISP, manufacturers can use the front camera of the phone to achieve some very practical functions.
For example, when you share the screen to others to see, let the phone automatically hide the received message notification; or let the phone automatically lock the screen when it detects that someone is peeking at your screen, these two features are very intimate Ah!
In fact, AI can do far more than we think.
In collaboration with Qualcomm and Sonde Health Biotechnology, smartphones can now even analyze users' voices through AI to determine whether users have health risks such as asthma or depression.
The cooperation between Qualcomm and Leica's Ernst Leitz Lab is to use AI to bring us several Leica-style filters, which means that many Android phones will have the opportunity to take Leica-like photos in the future
Previously, if the mobile phone manufacturers themselves to achieve these functions, it often takes a lot of time and effort, so many manufacturers in order to achieve the same function in the same place to roll up is really unnecessary.
Now that Qualcomm has packaged these features together and platformized them, they can use their resources elsewhere.
In short, Qualcomm has paved the way for ai technology to land in various life scenarios on the Snapdragon 8 platform, and then it depends on which mobile phone manufacturer will take the lead in using these functions.
In addition to imaging and AI, Qualcomm has also made a lot of efforts in gaming.
Back in 2018, Qualcomm was already building a mobile-ready gaming solution: Snapdragon Elite Gaming.
It is a collection of technologies optimized for mobile games and can bring a great gaming experience to smartphones from the hardware and software level.
At that time, the first generation of Snapdragon Elite Gaming equipped with the Snapdragon 855 provided a variety of solutions including technologies based on physical rendering, True HDR, cinematic post-processing, system-level game stutter optimization, game network latency management and so on.
On the snapdragon Elite Gaming, the second generation of snapdragon equipped with the Snapdragon 865, it not only began to support True 10-bit HDR, but also achieved support for 144Hz ultra-high display frame rate for the first time in the industry.
Last year's Snapdragon Elite Gaming, the third-generation Snapdragon Elite Gaming on the Snapdragon 888, implemented for the first time a variable resolution rendering technology that was only available on high-end PCs and professional game consoles.
On this generation of Snapdragon 8, the latest Snapdragon Elite Gaming not only brings us a variable resolution rendering advanced version, it also brings the first stereoscopic rendering technology on the mobile side.
Many of these technologies may not have been heard of at all, but they have indeed brought about a sea of changes to the mobile game experience, during which smartphones have even spawned an important branch of game phones.
The Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro also relies on Snapdragon Elite Gaming to achieve ultra-sensitive touch with a sample rate of ten fingers and 480Hz, which makes multi-key operations such as open-lens shooting during the game can be responded to in time.
In addition to empowering mobile phones, we can also find Qualcomm using these technologies to cooperate with them in many familiar mobile games such as the Original God, the Glory of the King, the Peace Elite, the Heavenly Bright Moon Knife and the Celestial Oracle.
Over the years, Qualcomm has also carried out in-depth cooperation with game engine manufacturers upstream in the industry, and implanted optimizations for the Snapdragon mobile platform in mainstream game engines such as Unreal and Unity.
Tony can say that nowadays we can play a variety of AAA mobile game masterpieces that are comparable to terminal games on smartphones anytime and anywhere, regardless of space, which definitely has Qualcomm's share of the credit.
Then again, the previous ones are just places that are relatively easy for us to perceive, in fact, this generation of Snapdragon 8 has also made great progress in audio, connectivity and security.
For example, through the integrated Bluetooth 5.2 and Snapdragon Sound Snapdragon listening technology, the Snapdragon 8 has now implemented CD-level lossless wireless audio transmission on its own mobile platform.
The 4th generation Snapdragon X65 5G modem and RF system integrated on the Snapdragon 8 is the world's first 5G solution to support up to 10Gbps download speeds in addition to supporting SA+SA 5G dual-SIM.
It is also the world's first Android Ready SE compliant mobile platform, supporting vault-level security features to protect our digital keys, virtual currencies and other assets.
For a flagship mobile phone, it is not easy to create a top experience, hardware determines its lower limit, and software determines its upper limit, and software and hardware go hand in hand is their characteristic.
It is precisely with the strong software and hardware support of the Snapdragon platform and the multi-faceted ecological construction that manufacturers have the opportunity to create a unique And extreme experience for us according to their own positioning.
I'm already looking forward to what surprises the android phone with the Snapdragon mobile platform will bring us next!
Author: Fat Tiger Editor: Xiao Xin Xinmei Editor: Huan Yan
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