In the past two years, the mobile phone processor has developed to a bottleneck, such as Qualcomm Snapdragon 888, Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 The performance improvement of the two processors has not reached expectations, and the heat generation is relatively large, which is not particularly liked for friends who do not play games much. In this case, the performance is not particularly strong, but the Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 processor with lower power consumption is known as a generation of god U, which is loved by netizens.
Mobile phones as consumables, every year the performance requirements will be improved, especially the domestic software ecology, due to inadequate supervision, nested in each other a lot of useless functions, even if it is a flagship mobile phone, in such a software ecology, it is difficult to use smoothly for a long time. In this kind of environment, a generation of god U may also perform better in that year, and after a long time, it will definitely go to elimination.
The Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 processor is essentially an overclocked version of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865, which belongs to the SM8250 platform, which was first launched in 2020, and the Samsung Galaxy S20 series and Xiaomi Mi 10 series were first launched. It has one A77 super core + three A77 large cores + four A55 small cores, equipped with Adreno 650 GPU, built using TSMC 7nm N7P process, and its power consumption performance is relatively good.
At present, the SM8250 platform has been two years, two days ago Xiaomi officially announced that it will stop the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 models of Xiaomi 10, Xiaomi 10 Pro, and Redmi K30 Pro on July 18, 2022. This shows that the SM8250 platform has gradually come to the end of its life cycle and is about to be abandoned by the times. Qualcomm Snapdragon 870, as the processor of the SM8250 platform, will also be abandoned by mobile phone manufacturers, just like the Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 in that year, and the life cycle is basically consistent with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 800.
Although there are still a large number of Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 new machines on the market, and even Xiaomi is stopping the SM8250 platform of Xiaomi 10, Xiaomi 10 Pro, Redmi K30 Pro at the same time, but also released the SM8250 platform of Redmi K40S and Xiaomi 12X, other brands such as realme, iQOO also have a large number of Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 mobile phones, but at present to start these models still need to be cautious, even if the performance of these models is still enough, But their system maintenance is likely to be problematic, and it may not be long before they are abandoned by the manufacturer and stopped, after all, each generation of processors has its own cycle.
Nowadays, the new generation of Shen U MediaTek Tianji 8100 can be said to be a very good substitute for Qualcomm Snapdragon 870, with a better TSMC 5nm process, with stronger CPU multi-core performance, stronger graphics processing capabilities, better AI computing power, and relatively low power consumption. So now if you buy snapdragon 870 mobile phone, you must be cautious, there may be no problem in the short term, but in the next 1-2 years, it is likely that there will be system maintenance problems, although it does not delay the use, but everyone upgrades and updates, only their own mobile phones are not updated, and they will definitely feel very unhappy.