Since the beginning of this year, domestic mobile phone brand new products frequently, flagship models almost all chose a new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform as the top version, it can be seen that Snapdragon 8 in the minds of manufacturers is still the best of the high-end flagship model In the more than ten models that have been released, we have selected the main models of some domestic head manufacturers, but also taking into account user response and discussion, from performance, games, photography, security and other aspects of simple testing, test models including Xiaomi 12 Pro, Honor Magic 4 Pro, iQOO 9 Pro and OnePlus 10 Pro, in the end under the blessing of Snapdragon 8, how each manufacturer plays its greatest advantage, let's take a look at it.
Why do flagship phones choose Snapdragon 8?
We have chosen the domestic commonly used running software Antutu as a unified test platform, of which the Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro Antutu running score is 1020596, the Honor Magic 4 Pro running score is 996636, the OnePlus 10 Pro running score is 1025509, and the iQOO 9 Pro pro is 1015670. The running scores of the four mobile phones have performed well, and it can be seen that in terms of comprehensive performance, several mobile phones have reached the top Android flagship standards and surpassed other mobile phones on the market.
Four mobile phones Antu Rabbit running score results
This is due to the super performance of Snapdragon 8, due to the use of the most advanced 4nm process technology, and the new Arm v9 architecture, the 8 cores of the Snapdragon 8 mobile platform not only have a single performance enhancement, but also have better synergy, of which the frequency of the main core Cortex-X2 has reached 3.0GHz, the other three performance cores have also reached 2.5GHz, and the 4 small cores are 1.8GHz. This results in a 20% increase in overall CPU performance. The new Adreno GPU improves graphics rendering speeds by 30% and consumes 25% less power. The Snapdragon 8, equipped with the 7th generation of Qualcomm AI Engine, also has a 4x AI performance improvement, which is very impressive, of which the Hexagon tensor accelerator processing speed is 2 times that of the previous generation, and the shared memory is also expanded to 2 times the previous generation. Therefore, in the Antutu running score, the new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform can break through one million points is also expected, it can be said that it is the first glare of the current flagship mobile phone in the industry
Snapdragon 8 mobile platform features overview
In addition to running scores, we also tested the game on these four phones and monitored the frame rate through performance dogs. You know, the current flagship mobile phone has generally been able to support the operation of 60 frames or even 120 frames of games, although the flagship mobile phone is not as special as the game phone has special requirements for game performance, but can run the game at a high frame is also the market for the flagship phone tacit demand.
Frame rate performance of the four mobile phones "Glory of Kings" game
We chose Honor of Kings for testing, and since the game can support 120 frames for play, it is currently the best choice for high frame testing. Through about 20 minutes of game time, summarized into the above table, we can see that the four mobile phones can guarantee a high frame rate of about 120 frames, of which, Xiaomi 12 Pro and iQOO 9 Pro are the most stable in the 120 Nephew Glory test, I believe that for heavy game lovers these two mobile phones are a good choice.
Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro game frames
iQOO9 Pro game frame count
In order to be able to achieve a high frame rate game experience, Snapdragon 8 has also made full progress in GPU performance, the improvement of the Adreno GPU graphics unit has brought more than 30% performance of Snapdragon 888, energy efficiency ratio is also increased by 25%, Vulkan graphics performance is increased by 60%, ensuring a better balance between game graphics and stability.
LTPO 2.0 technology has become standard during the period
In addition to performance, AI computing power is also the current comprehensive strength of the mobile phone needs to consider the indicator, AI involved in the content of our daily use of all aspects, including photography, application, scheduling, etc., in order to more intuitive display, we chose the screen display frame rate as a consideration of AI. Since these four mobile phones all use the screen of LTPO2.0 technology, it can actively monitor the scene through AI, so as to achieve 1-120Hz non-inductive frequency conversion, and its main purpose is to make the mobile phone more power-saving and prolong the standby time. It can be seen that the four mobile phones can actively adjust the screen frame number in different scenarios, for example, when reading, a lower screen display frame number will be used, and when playing, the screen frame rate effect will be fully mobilized, so as to achieve a better visual performance. The realization of these functions also comes from the use of the 7th generation Qualcomm AI engine of Snapdragon 8, the tensor accelerator speed and shared memory are increased by about 2 times, and through the system-level optimization program, the AI performance is finally improved by 4 times, and the power consumption is reduced by 50%, making the phone smarter and can also have better battery life.
Finally, let's talk about taking pictures, the camera modules used by these four mobile phones are slightly different, please see the following table for details.
Four phone camera specifications
In order to perform better, we will shoot the same scene with four mobile phones to show you their camera ability, because the shooting day is cloudy, compared to the sunny day, it is more testing the camera's shooting ability.
Shoot samples for comparison
Through the sample view, each mobile phone has a good shooting performance, even if the light is not so cloudy, you can also record clear details, the overall look and feel is also very delicate, the picture is more pure and layered. The light in the scene and the noise in the picture are well controlled, and under the premise of high chiaroscuro contrast, there is good control over the glare, and there is no obvious overexposure. Some of the photos use a large aperture or portrait mode, which can be seen to be well represented in the details of the edges. The difference is that manufacturers have a big difference in color tuning, especially the OnePlus 10 Pro has a completely different color presentation from other brands under the Hasselblad color grading, which is still a matter of opinion. But what is certain is that they all make full use of the Upgrade of Snapdragon 8 on the ISP, the new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform for the first time on the smartphone commercial 18-bit ISP, to achieve a dynamic range data volume increased by 4096 times, can process 3.2 billion pixels per second, so that in the dynamic mode can increase up to 4 stops of choice, night mode effect is also increased by 5 times, for the mobile phone has an absolutely broad room to play, but also allow users to feel the real upgrade experience. After receiving data from Sensor, ISP to complete a series of steps such as lens correction, bad pixel correction, color interpolation, Bayer noise removal, white balance correction, color correction, etc., at the same time, the AI engine also plays an important role in it that cannot be ignored, it can be said that every face detection, scene recognition, photography or video recording, there is support from Snapdragon 8.
Snapdragon Sound technology
Snapdragon and Honor's dual TEE security system
In addition to the above-mentioned functions, Snapdragon 8 also brings more functions to the phone, such as iQOO 9 Pro and Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro support for SnapdragonSound, and Qualcomm 3DSonicMax ultrasonic fingerprint sensor used by iQOO 9 Pro, etc. The most noteworthy of which is the in-depth use of The Honor Magic 4 Pro on security, including "dual-unit intelligent collaborative sounding technology". It can combine the polyphony screen and the top earpiece for collaborative sound generation, while ensuring sound quality and timbre, reducing the leakage of sound, and making our calls more private. In addition, there are SIM card loss mode, positioning blur, clipboard self-removal, etc., through the Snapdragon 8 first introduced under the Android operating system of the dedicated trust management engine, so that the phone is always in the Qualcomm Hypervisor dual trust execution environment, protection and isolation of sensitive information, to achieve end-to-end user information security.
In short, on the basis of Snapdragon 8, domestic Android mobile phones have made breakthroughs in many aspects, allowing smart phones to evolve to a new form, and also making us look forward to the future performance of mobile phones with the Snapdragon 8 mobile platform as the core this year.