As the title says, the purpose of Tony's writing this article today is to take you to see whether the Snapdragon 865 released by Qualcomm at the end of December 2019 is worthy of the title of the new generation of "God U".
Usually speaking, the chips that can be called "God U" in the past generations of mobile phone chips are often those that have achieved a perfect balance between performance and power consumption, and have balanced performance in all aspects without obvious shortcomings.
To say that before the Snapdragon 865, the Snapdragon 835 was praised by netizens as a generation of gods U in fact, it has been a long time.
Samsung's 10nm process, which was ahead of TSMC at the time, with a CORTEX-A73 architecture based on ARM customization and excellent energy efficiency ratio, and supplemented by restrained performance release, created its generation of "God U".
At that time, netizens commented on Qualcomm Snapdragon's previous processors▼ ▼
It is worth mentioning that this SoC is also an important turning point for Android mobile phones, and the gap between Android flagships and iPhones is rapidly pulled in from its appearance.
Among other things, the generation of xiaomi 6 that we are familiar with is equipped with this chip, and other well-known mobile phones such as xiaomi mix2, samsung galaxy S8 and one plus 5/5T are also used in chips.
Therefore, the title of Snapdragon 835 "God U" can be said to be worthy of the name.
However, the reason why the Snapdragon 865 is now called a new generation of "God U" is to be honest and somewhat reluctant in my opinion, because it was actually a somewhat disappointing chip when it was first released.
On the one hand, it is because it is 5G implemented through the plug-in baseband.
The external baseband will not only bring an increase in power consumption, but also make it difficult for the mobile phone to be thin, and it should be known that the Kirin 990 at the same time as it is already an integrated 5G chip, and it is one step behind the friends in 5G technology.
On the other hand, it is also because its comprehensive performance can only be played back and forth with the A12 chip released a year earlier, the A12 single-core performance is 865 ahead, and the multi-core is 865 small wins, and the performance is not much outstanding.
Snapdragon 865 can be called "God U" by netizens, in large part because Qualcomm released the Snapdragon 888 and Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 in the past two years, their power consumption performance did not meet our expectations.
Are the Snapdragon 888 and Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 powerful? Both chips are Qualcomm's strongest mobile phone chips to date.
The problem is that they will increase their power consumption while achieving stronger performance, and the poor energy efficiency ratio has made many manufacturers start to frantically stack heat dissipation on mobile phones to train dragons, otherwise it is difficult to suppress the heat of mobile phones.
Geek Bay measured the power consumption of several chips ▼
As the saying goes, there is no "god U" in this world, just because the few U that come out of the back are too pulled, and there is a Snapdragon 865, which is relatively passable god U~
Having said so much before, there is no basis for just saying it.
So Tony deliberately found four mobile phones equipped with Snapdragon 865, Snapdragon 888, Snapdragon 870 and Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, Xiaomi 11, Xiaomi 12X and 12 Pro.
Next, I'll actually test how they perform in terms of games.
The first is the proto-god game test that the bad friends like to hear.
At medium brightness at room temperature, the phone screen is uniformly set to 1080P resolution and performance mode is turned on; the original god turns on custom extremely high image quality and sets the frame rate to 60 frames, running the same map in turn.
The frame rate of the four mobile phones in twenty minutes is as follows:
Yes, you read that right, the highest average game frame rate among the four mobile phones is the Xiaomi Mi 10 Ultra with Snapdragon 865, followed by the Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro, then the Xiaomi Mi 12X, and the Xiaomi Mi 11 is at the bottom.
At first, I was shocked by this result, it was hard to believe that a mobile phone released the year before, its original god performance is actually stronger than the new flagship, so I also tested it separately and found that this is the case:
From the temperature curve of the CPU during the game, you can see that the temperature control of the Xiaomi Mi 10 Ultra is very aggressive, with an average temperature of 66.1 °C, while the Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro has an average temperature of about 46 °C:
Feedback on the body temperature, the xiaomi mi 10 ultra has reached a maximum front temperature of 40.5 °C:
The Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro has a maximum front temperature of only 38.6 °C:
At this time, some people must be curious about the average CPU temperature of the Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro than the Xiaomi 10 Ultra, and why its average frame rate of the game is only about two frames lower than the Xiaomi Mi 10 Ultra.
So it seems that the game performance of Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 is actually OK?
In fact, after the Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro opens the original god extremely high quality, the picture quality is no different from the medium quality, only in the game center to change the GPU setting to "high quality", can really open the original god extremely high quality:
At this time, the average frame rate of the Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro has not changed much:
But after twenty minutes, its temperature has surpassed that of the Xiaomi Mi 10 Ultra, and the temperature on the front of the fuselage has reached a maximum of 41.3 °C:
It can be seen that the Performance of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 on the Xiaomi 12 Pro in the game of the original god is indeed not as good as the Snapdragon 865 of the Xiaomi 10 Ultra, which plays the original god not only has a higher frame rate than the former, but also has a lower heat.
Another strange thing is that after changing the GPU settings, the software can no longer detect the actual CPU temperature of the Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro, the temperature has been fixed at 23 °C, I don't know if this is artificial or software reasons:
Next is the game test of the glory of the national mobile game king.
Since the Xiaomi Mi 12X does not support turning on the Glory of Kings Extreme Picture Quality, and the Xiaomi Mi 10 Ultra does not have the extremely high frame rate option of The Honor of Kings:
So I chose to unify the king glory picture quality under the ultra-high frame rate, ultra-high resolution, and total picture quality HD options, and the four mobile phones ten minutes of king glory 5V5 game down the specific situation is as follows:
Poor friends can see that these four mobile phones run the glory of the king is still very easy, in addition to the Xiaomi Mi 11 game average frame rate is somewhat low, the other three mobile phones can basically maintain the whole process at 90 frames.
However, it is also the Xiaomi Mi 10 Ultra with the highest frame rate, with an average frame rate of 93.2 frames.
From the CPU temperature curve, we can see that the Xiaomi Mi 10 Ultra still adopts an aggressive temperature control strategy, with an average temperature of 50.3 °C, while the average temperature of the Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro is only 40.1 °C:
The reason why the Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro will run the 90 frames of the Glory of the King while the average CPU temperature will be 10 °C lower than the Xiaomi Mi 10 Ultra, on the one hand, because it will adjust the game's screen quality by default like the original god.
On the other hand, it is because the API provided by King glory can let the mobile phone know the status of the process at any time, thus helping the mobile phone to achieve more refined performance scheduling, which has such a performance.
But in any case, the Xiaomi Mi 10 Ultra, as a mobile phone released the year before, the frame rate of the three mobile phones released later than it played the original god and the glory of the king was even worse than it, which is really a bit unreasonable.
So as far as the game performance of Snapdragon 865 is concerned, it can indeed fight for several more years in today's environment, if calculated according to the life cycle of a chip, it is indeed no problem to call it a new generation of "God U".
Because of this, if you are using a mobile phone equipped with Snapdragon 865, I do not recommend that you consider changing to a new mobile phone at this time, and the game experience of the new mobile phone may not be better than the old mobile phone in your hand.
Can I still buy a new phone? Of course I can buy it.
After all, the place where the new mobile phone is upgraded is not only a SoC, but their experience in terms of screen, camera, and feel will also be improved.
And manufacturers in the experience of the Snapdragon 888, without exception have increased the heat dissipation area of the mobile phone, and improve the heat dissipation system, soC due to overheating caused by the phone frame lag problem can be avoided.
As for the fast power consumption caused by high power consumption, it can also be solved by increasing the battery capacity or using high-power fast charging.
Smarter manufacturers will even take the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, Snapdragon 888, Snapdragon 870 three flagships to sell together strategy for us to have one more choice, those Snapdragon 870 new machines are still quite fragrant ~
Of course, if you are not in a hurry, you can also choose to wait, after all, the party will never lose money, thank you for watching!
Images, sources:
Xiaomi official website, mobile phone performance ranking, Weibo @rice review
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