The first week of 2022 is coming to an end, and this week a total of two (series) Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 platform flagship phones have been released, one is the realme GT2 Pro, and the other is the iQOO 9 series.
So far, there have been four (series) Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 mobile phones on the market, in addition to this week's vivo and realme, as well as the moto edge X30 at the end of last year, and the Xiaomi 12 series.
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 performance is beyond doubt, even if Tianji 9000 debuted, theoretical performance is still the top flagship Of the Android camp SoC, but the defeat is lost in this bad power consumption, so that this year's Snapdragon continues to bear the name of "fire dragon", mobile phone manufacturers want to tap the performance of Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, you have to do a good job of "how to train your dragon" role.
Of the four brands that have launched the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 platform so far, namely motorola (Lenovo), Xiaomi, realme and vivo, which is the most qualified "dragon trainer" at this stage? What kind of strategies are used when facing high-load tasks?
Here "mobilized" four brands of Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 mobile phones, namely moto edge X30, Xiaomi 12 Pro, vivo iQOO 9 Pro and realme GT2 Pro, borrowing their game performance to give their high load strategy, performance, heat performance to find out, and this time we chose "Glory of the King" and "Original God" two games.
First look at the national game "Glory of kings", each model has tested two frame rate modes of 60fps and 90fps.
▲ The performance of the "Glory of Kings" game released at the end of last year
There is no doubt that the "glory of the king" of 60fps has no pressure on the four flagships, the frame rate change curve is quite flat, there is no picture shake throughout the whole process, the average frame rate is around 60fps, and the back temperature is maintained below 38 °C, but the iQOO 9 Pro has the lowest heat, the moto edge X30 has the lowest power consumption, and the overall balance is lost.
▲ The performance of the "Glory of Kings" game released at the beginning of this year
After the frame rate is increased to 90fps, the load of the mobile phone will be significantly improved, and it is easier to open the gap.
As can be seen from the frame rate trend chart above, the realme GT2 Pro is the flattest, the picture frame rate is not a jitter, the average frame rate can reach 90fps; moto edge X30 does not appear picture frame rate jitter, the average frame rate is slightly higher than realme, to 92.9fps, the temperature is lower, the focus power consumption is the lowest of the four; and the Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro and iQOO 9 Pro Although they have good temperature control capabilities, the former has a small frame rate jitter, The latter exhibits a more severe frame rate jitter.
If "Glory of kings" is only pediatric, then the "original god" who eats CPU resources is the touchstone of performance and power consumption.
A "original god", the style of the four flagships has changed dramatically, unsurprisingly, no frame rate waveform chart is flat, especially the recently released iQOO 9 Pro frame rate fluctuations the most, 10 minutes of the game we also recorded that it produced 83 frame rate jitter, of which 25 times more serious jitter, the average frame rate of 44.7fps, but its power consumption and temperature control is the best of the four - it can be seen that iQOO 9 Pro to cope with high load scenarios, priority power preservation and temperature control.
The average frame rate of Xiaomi, moto, and realme can reach more than 50fps, of which the realme GT2 Pro released on the first working day of this year has an average frame rate of 56.2fps, and there are 57 frame rate jitters (including 10 more severe jitters) in 10 minutes, and the power consumption and temperature are the highest of the four - it seems that the strategy of the realme GT2 Pro is the opposite of Vivo's iQOO 9 Pro, which is relatively more focused on performance.
Xiaomi's 12 Pro can be said to find a relatively balanced point between realme and iQOO, with a back temperature of 45.2 °C and an average frame rate of 53.2fps, so that game performance and gripping experience can be taken into account.
However, Xiaomi is not the most balanced manufacturer, moto dege X30 in this regard to do more extreme, with lower power consumption, slightly higher than the temperature of Xiaomi, in exchange for up to 58fps average frame rate, as low as 29 frame rate jitter (3 times more severe jitter) of the best performance performance.
Through the comparison of the performance of the three modes of "Glory of the King" and "Original God" of the two games, it can basically be seen that the four Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 models are tending to cope with high loads, each summed up in one sentence: iQOO 9 Pro is the most concerned about temperature control, preferring to sacrifice part of the performance to keep calm; realme GT2 Pro pays more attention to performance and tends to firepower; Xiaomi 12 Pro and moto edge X30 take a comprehensive route, performance and temperature control are wanted, But Xiaomi will be relatively conservative, and the moto will go a little further in performance, and in exchange for good results.
To tell the truth, the performance of moto surprised me, as a mobile phone brand that is not so mainstream now, the first Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 was launched, and humans (users) were also the first to peek at the "dragon" attribute of Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 from Moto edge X30, and the fuselage of edge X30 was indeed hot when it was just released, perhaps the advantage of being listed earlier, so that manufacturers have more space to optimize through OTA updates, so that today's more effective balance.
But I'm not saying that the moto edge X30 can be fully crushed, but in the current time period, the moto's strategy is more balanced; and the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 is destined to be a SoC that requires power consumption and performance game, in addition to hardware design, manufacturers will inevitably spend more time and energy to adjust, give them some more time to tune, and after a while the performance may be different.
Not to mention the next one plus 10 series, Redmi K50 series and other new opportunities to appear in turn, how will they be tuned? Just wait and see.