Now, the user is more and more concerned about the mobile phone camera function, a mobile phone with a good camera function can be worth an ordinary digital camera. As a world-renowned mobile phone chip manufacturer, Qualcomm Snapdragon chip technology in the image technology evolution, especially the new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform, its quite important evolution point is to greatly broaden the possibility of mobile phone imaging capabilities to improve.
Although the previous generation of the new Snapdragon 8, the Snapdragon 888, is already excellent enough in terms of image performance to meet the daily or professional photo needs of users. However, the emergence of the new Snapdragon 8 has brought different significance to the field of moving image. Computational photography technology is more mature on the new Snapdragon 8, the chip's algorithm participates in almost the entire process of mobile phone photography, from the sensor in the front section to the CPU, GPU, ISP, AI and so on in the back section, Snapdragon 8 has achieved significant improvement.
In terms of CPU, the new Snapdragon 8 is 20% higher than the previous generation, the GPU is 40% ahead of the previous generation, and the energy consumption is reduced by 30% and 25% respectively. In terms of AI, the new Snapdragon 8 uses the 7th generation qualcomm AI engine, and the reasoning speed is 4 times faster than the previous generation. What is even more "terrifying" is that the bit width of the spectra ISP of the new Snapdragon 8 has been upgraded from 14-bit ISP to 18-bit triple ISP, which can increase the image data processing capacity of mobile phones by 4096 times.
Whether it is for ordinary mobile phone users or professionals, in the field of mobile phone chips, 18bit ISP is a very new thing. For a long time in the past, mobile phone chips have remained at 14bit ISP without change. The release of the new Snapdragon 8 has enabled the 14-bit ISP chip that has been used for many years in the field of mobile phone chips to finally upgrade to an 18-bit ISP.
For the bit width of the ISP, we can simply understand the processing accuracy and the amount of data that can be loaded, the new Snapdragon 8 will upgrade the ISP to 18bit bit width, which means that in terms of image processing, the smartphone equipped with the new Snapdragon 8 will be faster in processing image data, and the photos taken or recorded videos, whether it is color richness or dynamic range capture capabilities, will also be significantly improved. All of this, the most intuitive feeling for consumers is that using a smart phone equipped with the new Snapdragon 8 chip, the photography ability has achieved earth-shaking changes. It can be said that the emergence of the new Snapdragon 8 has redefined the professional mobile imaging system of smart phones.
Especially in the current situation when short videos are extremely popular, it seems that everyone's information access channels are short videos, and everyone has learned to use short videos to record and share their daily lives, and even some people take live broadcasting or short video shooting as a profession. However, if you want to make money by shooting short videos, video shooting is not only content, but also the texture of the video itself should be good enough. Many video shooting platforms have issued invitations to users for 8K video creation, which means that video creators need to use 8K video to create, which will become a normal operation in the field of short video.
The new Snapdragon 8's newly upgraded 18bitISP can be said to be born for professional photography and 8K video. The 18-bit ISP makes it possible for mobile phones to shoot 8K video. In the future, user video bloggers can use the new Snapdragon 8 smartphone to easily shoot 8K short videos, and with the blessing of the new 18bit ISP, the power consumption of 8K video recording has been reduced by half, which means that even if the 8K video recording is long, the mobile phone is not easy to heat up.
Overall, the improvement of the new Snapdragon 8 in terms of imagery is a starting point for Android mobile phone photography to begin to move towards a professional level, and the Android phone equipped with the new Snapdragon 8 will bring users better photography features and enjoy the immersive advanced experience brought by 8K video. It is believed that in the future, the smartphone equipped with the new Snapdragon 8 will also become a member of the professional photography equipment.