Four major upgrades will make the third-generation Snapdragon 8 mobile platform firmly in the top spot in 2024
Qualcomm, the leader in Android's flagship smartphone SoC, announced the launch of its new flagship mobile platform, the third-generation Snapdragon 8 mobile platform, which is a powerful product that combines device-side intelligence, powerful performance and energy efficiency. Not only is performance a leap forward again, but it is also the first mobile platform purpose-built for generative AI.
1 30% increase in CPU performance and 20% increase in energy efficiency
In terms of CPU, the third-generation Snapdragon 8 mobile platform adopts the "1+5+2" architecture, including one main processor based on Arm Cortex-X4 technology, with a frequency of up to 3.3GHz, five Cortex-A720 performance cores up to 3.2GHz (2.96GHz Cortex-A720*2, 3.15GHzCortex-A720*3), and two Cortex-A520 efficiency cores. The maximum frequency is 2.27GHz. Compared with the previous generation, the performance is improved by 30% and the energy efficiency is improved by 20%.
In terms of GPU, the third-generation Snapdragon 8 mobile platform is equipped with Adreno750@903MHz, and officials say that its performance and energy efficiency have been improved by 25%. In addition, Adreno750 supports a new generation of image motion engine (AdrenoFrame Motion Engine 2.0), which can achieve up to 240FPS ultra-high frame rate mobile game graphics on mobile phones. It also supports gaming super-resolution technology, which supports gaming resolutions up to 8K.
In addition to ray tracing, the third-generation Snapdragon 8 mobile platform introduces real-time global illumination and reflection technology to achieve more realistic lighting and shadow effects. UE5Lumen is the first to support this technology and is optimized specifically for the Snapdragon platform.
The third-generation Snapdragon 8 mobile platform supports LPDDR5X memory, with a frequency of 4.8GHz and a bandwidth of 77GB/s. LPDDR5X is a low-power double-rate synchronous dynamic random access memory (LPDDR5 upgrade) that can significantly improve the performance and responsiveness of mobile phones by increasing the memory bandwidth speed without increasing power consumption.
2 Integrate three 18-bit sensing ISPs to improve the multi-camera experience
The third-generation Snapdragon 8 mobile platform integrates three 18-bit sensing ISPs that support a single 108 million pixels. Support 8K/30HDR format video recording, and support 4K/120 HD slow motion video. Its display resolution and refresh rate support up to 4K/60Hz, QHD+/40Hz; The external display resolution and refresh rate support up to 8K/30Hz, 1080P/240Hz.
Qualcomm, Samsung and Sony have collaborated on sensors to support DualConversation Gain HDR for the first time, super-resolution upscaling for ultra-high-resolution sensors, and Sony's LYTIA dual-layer transistor sensor technology. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 mobile platform uses up to 60% less power for multi-camera switching, supports Dolby HDR and bokeh-free photo technologies, and also supports the trinamiX NIR sensor and ST's smoke sensor.
3 The world's first "5.5G" baseband product, not only for mobile phones
The third-generation Snapdragon 8 integrates the new Snapdragon X75 baseband, the world's first "5GAdvanced-ready" baseband product that supports ten-carrier aggregation and promises 10Gbps downlink speeds in Wi-Fi 7 and 5G. This new modem includes full-band support from 600MHz to 41GHz.
Its mmWave hardware (QTM565) is fused with Sub-6 hardware. Some of its chips take up 25% less physical area and can also have up to 20% energy efficiency improvements.
On the whole, the Snapdragon X75 is not positioned as a mobile phone baseband chip, but as the world's first next-generation 5G-Advanced solution, facing a larger market and field, it will play a huge role in the industrial Internet of Things, smart city, smart agriculture, automotive field, wireless broadband, enterprise private network and other fields.
It is worth mentioning that the third-generation Snapdragon 8 mobile platform still continues the industry-leading connectivity capabilities, supporting technologies such as Wi-Fi 7 and dual Bluetooth connectivity, laying the foundation for subsequent experience upgrades.
4 AI empowerment is everywhere, and 1 second map production has become a reality
AI is the focus of the third-generation Snapdragon 8 mobile platform, the NPU has been upgraded to Hexagon, and Qualcomm has equipped it with an independent power supply circuit, which has improved energy efficiency by 40%, the overall performance by 98%, and the AI computing power has exceeded 73TOPS. In addition, a direct channel is added between the Hexagon NPU vector unit and the memory, which is more efficient.
The new Snapdragon 8 mobile platform supports multi-model generative AI, including MetaLlama 2, which can process more than 10 billion large model parameters and execute up to 20 tokens per second. Qualcomm also provided a new all-in-one AIStack development platform, which supports more than 20 different models and various AI frameworks such as Pytorch.
With the support of powerful AI computing power, Snapdragon phones can achieve many new ways to play on the device side. For example, StableDiffusion can quickly generate images on smartphones, which only takes less than 1 second to generate images locally, which is even more advantageous than large models in the cloud, and the performance in privacy is also more reassuring to users.
Qualcomm is also introducing a new audio platform with SnapdragonSound technology, which leverages AI for advanced noise cancellation.
Commenting on the advancement and application of AI, Qualcomm CEO Ammon said, "We are entering the AI era, and generative AI on the device side is essential to create powerful, fast, personalized, efficient, secure, and highly optimized experiences. Snapdragon is uniquely positioned to help shape and capitalize on the opportunities of generative AI on the device side, and the generative AI experience empowered by Snapdragon will be ubiquitous in the future. ”
5 The first batch of models on the third-generation Snapdragon 8 mobile platform
The third-generation Snapdragon 8 mobile platform will be widely adopted on mobile end devices. Asus, Honor, iQOO, Meizu, NIO, Nubia, OnePlus, OPPO, realme, Redmi, Red Devil, Sony, Xiaomi, vivo, ZTE and other brands will also launch mobile phones equipped with the third-generation Snapdragon 8 mobile platform.
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