With the official release of the Redmi K50 series, the high-end flagship in the field of mobile phone 5G SoC has finally been put together. The top flagship in 2022 will be represented by the new Snapdragon 8 and Tianji 9000 (there will be Snapdragon 8 Plus in the middle of the year), the quasi-flagship is the world of Tianji 8100, Tianji 8000 and Snapdragon 888, as for the Snapdragon 870 and Tianji 1200 (and the derivative Tianji 1300) need to take a back seat.
So, which of these high-end flagships has the strongest theoretical performance?
Snapdragon 870
The essence of the Snapdragon 870 is the overclocking version after the Snapdragon 865 and Snapdragon 865+, using TSMC 7nm process, consisting of 1 Cortex-A77 (3.19GHz) super core, 3 Cortex-A77 (2.42GHz) large cores and 4 Cortex-A55 (1.8GHz) small cores, integrating Adreno 650 GPU. The evaluation data for this article comes from the OnePlus 9R mobile phone equipped with this chip.
Snapdragon 888
As the former flagship of 2021, the Snapdragon 888 uses the Samsung 5nm process, consisting of 1 Cortex-X1 (2.84GHz) super core, 3 Cortex-A78 (2.4GHz) large cores and 4 Cortex-A55 (1.8GHz) small cores, integrating the Adreno 660 GPU. The data in this article is from the OnePlus 9RT mobile phone equipped with this chip.
New Snapdragon 8
The new Snapdragon 8 uses the Samsung 4nm process and consists of a 3.0GHz Cortex-X2 super core, three 2.5GHz Cortex-A710 large cores, and four 1.8GHz Cortex-A510 small cores, integrating a new generation of Adreno 7 series GPUs. The data in this article is from the iQOO 9 Pro mobile phone equipped with this chip.
Tianji 1200
Tianji 1200 adopts TSMC 6nm process, adopts the "1+3+4" three-bundle architecture, as a super-large core Cortex-A78 core frequency up to 3.0GHz, 3 large core Cortex-A78 is 2.6GHz, 4 Cortex-A55 small cores are 2.0GHz, and integrates Mali-G77MC9 GPU. The data in this article is from the Reno 7 Pro mobile phone equipped with this chip.
Tianji 8100
The Tianji 8000 series includes the Tianji 8000 Standard Edition and the Tianji 8100, both of which are based on TSMC's 5nm process design, using quad-core Cortex-A78 + quad-core Cortex-A55, integrated Mali-G610MP6 GPU and fifth-generation AI processor APU 580 (2 performance cores + 1 general purpose core). Among them, the large core frequency of the Tianji 8100 has increased by 100MHz, the GPU frequency has increased by 20%, and the performance core frequency in the APU 580 has increased by 25%. The data for this review is from the Redmi K50 equipped with the Tianji 8100.
Tianji 9000
MediaTek Tianji 9000 uses TSMC's 4nm process technology, which consists of 1 Cortex-X2 super core (3.05GHz), 3 Cortex-A710 (2.85GHz) large cores, 4 Cortex-A510 (1.8GHz) energy efficiency cores, and an integrated ARM Mali-G710MC10 GPU. The data in this article is from the Redmi K50 Pro phone equipped with this chip.
Below, there is a comparison of the running scores of several chips in the benchmarking software of AnTutu, Master Lu, GeekBench 5 and GFXBnech.
Ann Rabbit Comparison
Lu Master Contrast
GeekBench 5 comparison
GFXBench runs
Overall, the comprehensive performance of Tianji 8100 is between Snapdragon 870 and Snapdragon 888, compared with Tianji 1200, the gpu performance of the predecessor has undergone earth-shaking changes, and it is competitive in the mid-range price.
It is said that the Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 has been discontinued, and can only reduce the value of the Snapdragon 888 to compete with the Tianji 8100. However, the heat and power consumption of the Snapdragon 888 are not good, and the actual experience is not the opponent of the Tianji 8100.
The comprehensive performance of Tianji 9000 is enough to compete with the new Snapdragon 8, its CPU performance is leading, GPU performance is backward, but the amplitude is not large, which is also the first time in mediatek history that it can fight with the snapdragon 8 series in the same period, which is worth looking forward to.
The question now is, are mobile phone manufacturers willing to match the Tianji chip with a better screen and a better sensor?