The third-generation Snapdragon 8 flagship phone is blooming, which one do you prefer?

On October 25, Qualcomm officially released the third-generation Snapdragon 8 mobile platform, which integrates Qualcomm Kryo CPU performance by 30% and energy efficiency by 20%. The all-new Adreno GPU delivers 25% faster graphics rendering than its predecessor, 240FPS mobile graphics and more realistic ray-traced effects on mobile phones, as well as a 25% increase in energy efficiency.

In addition, the enhanced Hexagon NPU on the 3rd Gen Snapdragon 8 makes generative AI inference faster, with an overall performance improvement of 98%, a 40% improvement in energy efficiency, and the ability to process more than 10 billion large model parameters and execute up to 20 tokens per second. At the same time, the third-generation Snapdragon 8 has made great strides in terms of imaging, wireless connectivity, gaming, audio, and more.

After the release of the third-generation Snapdragon 8 mobile platform, brands such as Xiaomi, iQOO, OnePlus, vivo, and Red Devil have announced that they will launch corresponding flagship terminal products based on this. Today, we've seen no less than 10 third-generation Snapdragon 8 phones released, all of which are different in design, features, and experience. Next, let's take a look at each of these phones. (The following is introduced in the order of product release)

Xiaomi 14, 14 Pro

Less than 48 hours after the launch of the third-generation Snapdragon 8 mobile platform, the Xiaomi 14 series was officially released for the first time, and Xiaomi's speed is absolutely unmatched, which is enough to see Xiaomi's attention to the third-generation Snapdragon 8.

With the blessing of the third-generation Snapdragon 8, the Xiaomi 14 series can not only easily achieve the performance of the Antutu V10 with over 2 million points, but also realize the application of multiple scenarios based on the powerful AI performance of the third-generation Snapdragon 8. For example, when users hold the mobile phone, the Xiaomi Mi 14 Pro can accurately prevent false touches through the collaboration of AI and different sensors.

The Xiaomi 14 series also supports AI recognition of grip posture, which intelligently selects the antenna with the best signal for communication to ensure that the game is in a low-latency state. On the current popular generative AI application, the Xiaomi 14 series supports the AI photo function, which can select 20-30 pictures in the gallery and perform AI image Xi, so as to generate pictures in different styles. The powerful AI computing power of the third-generation Snapdragon 8 makes AI no longer unattainable.

iQOO12、12 Pro

The iQOO Digital Series flagship models have always used only the high-performance Snapdragon 8 series mobile platform to achieve the top performance in the same period, and the iQOO12 series is no exception. The first batch of iQOO12 series equipped with the third-generation Snapdragon 8 platform has a running score of over 2.1 million points, and the frame rate performance in mainstream mobile games such as "Honor of Kings" is almost full.

As the first model equipped with vivo OriginOS 4, the iQOO12 series supports the global intelligent assistance based on vivo AI, Blue Heart V, which can recognize and respond to a variety of semantic commands, and support file retrieval, writing and drawing, and creation and arrangement. With the computing power of the 10 billion large models of the third-generation Snapdragon 8 platform, the iQOO12 series has reached a higher level in terms of response speed and experience of AI applications.

红魔9 Pro、9 Pro+

The Red Devil mobile phone focuses on the field of e-sports gaming phones, pursuing the ultimate performance and e-sports experience, so the Snapdragon 8 series platform has become the inevitable choice for each generation of its flagship products. As the only professional gaming phone on the market equipped with the third-generation Snapdragon 8 platform, the RedMagic 9 Pro series's running score of over 2.2 million points is just the basic, with the Snapdragon Elite Gaming feature on the third-generation Snapdragon 8, as well as the joint tuning of the two parties, the RedMagic 9 Pro series has top-level picture quality, smooth gaming experience and a series of end-game-level gaming experience.

According to official data, the Red Magic 9 Pro series can achieve the highest image quality in high-performance mobile games such as "Genshin Impact" and "Honkai: Star Dome Railway", and run at full frame almost all the time. Especially in "Honkai: Star Railway", not only is the frame rate full, but even the frame rate fluctuation is only 0.7, which shows that the third-generation Snapdragon 8 tuned by Red Devil and Qualcomm is very stable in game performance.

Redmi K70 Pro

Redmi brand 10th anniversary, so Redmi launched the flagship experience of the fully evolved Redmi K70 Pro, which is equipped with Xiaomi's surging OS core, through the third-generation Snapdragon 8 platform's AI computing power, bringing the furious engine 3.0, realizing AI performance scheduling, making energy efficiency higher, AI control, making the response faster, AI rendering, clearer picture quality. Based on the strong performance of the third-generation Snapdragon 8, coupled with the deep empowerment of the AI subsystem, the Redmi K70 Pro dares to play the product slogan of "performance AI revolution".

In addition to performance, the third-generation Snapdragon 8 also upgrades the Redmi K70 Pro's experience in daily use. Its Snapdragon Sound technology can improve the experience of "listening and arguing" when players are gaming, and the AI noise reduction function is combined with the Redmi K70 Pro Light and Shadow Hunter 800's native high dynamic capabilities and Xiaomi Image Brain and Xiaomi Night Owl algorithm, allowing users to easily shoot clear and bright night images.

Meizu 21

If you want to talk about the "soul" of Meizu mobile phones, then it must be its product design style and FlymeOS experience, and these two aspects have made great progress in Meizu 21. The Meizu 21 continues the Meizu unbounded aesthetic design, with a frame width of only 1.74mm, which is officially said to challenge the world's narrowest physical quadruple equilateral, and with Meizu's unique "Meizu White" color scheme, it is absolutely YYDS!

In terms of experience, the biggest upgrade of Meizu 21 is that the new Aicy assistant has the blessing of the Flyme AI large model, which supports functions such as knowledge quizzes, copywriting, textual pictures, picture style conversion, AI image search, and image expansion. And Aicy can be used as a personal assistant to help users solve some daily problems. The Flyme AI model is supported by the powerful AI computing power of the third-generation Snapdragon 8 platform, creating a differentiated AI experience for Meizu mobile phones.

OnePlus 12

As OnePlus's decade of transcendence, OnePlus 12 has a multifaceted transcendence experience. The first is the smooth experience, based on the third-generation Snapdragon 8 platform, the joint research and development of OnePlus and Qualcomm, which is optimized for memory linkage, daily power consumption, touch speed, dual SIM network, imaging speed, etc., to ensure a smooth user experience. Secondly, with the blessing of the Snapdragon Elite Gaming feature, the OnePlus 12 has an extremely fast touch response speed, which improves the touch sensitivity of the game, so that the screen response is perfectly matched with the player's operation.

Finally, the OnePlus 12 has made a qualitative leap in image this time, with the combination of the third-generation Snapdragon 8's three ISPs, Hexagon NPU and OPPO's next-generation super light and shadow image engine, users can easily shoot images with clear details, natural light and shadow, and vivid colors, performance, games, and images can be controlled in one hand.

真我GT5 Pro

Realme GT5 Pro has a product Slogan that is "performance first, image is unparalleled", so we will introduce it from two dimensions: performance and image. Needless to say, the performance of the third-generation Snapdragon 8 comes with the Geek Performance Panel 2.0, which supports custom CPU frequency modulation and GPU free frequency modulation, allowing users to have better picture effects and lower power consumption. With the second-generation ray tracing GPU on the third-generation Snapdragon 8, the realme GT5 Pro has become the first batch of models to support ray tracing 2.0 in the mobile game "Against the Cold", meeting the needs of the future development trend of mobile games.

In terms of image, Realme GT5 Pro is equipped with SonyLYT-808Super light and shadow main camera, which can achieve image quality and color improvement through AI, and Realme combines Qualcomm and ArcSoft to launch the first super-core telephoto image system, bringing 6X lossless zoom, telephoto close-up, low-light telephoto portrait and other image functions. Thanks to the strong AI computing power support, Realme GT5 Pro also has the industry's first ultra-fast palm print unlocking, which is officially said to be comparable to the face unlocking speed through more than 10,000 model trainings, and also supports "AI gesture control": 12 kinds of air gestures to achieve full-scene air interaction such as movement and swiping, and realize new interaction methods on mobile phones.

Nubia Z60 Ultra

Nubia has been a close partner of Qualcomm, and its flagship phones have been using only the Snapdragon 8 series mobile platform to achieve flagship-level performance. The latest Nubia Z60 Ultra is inevitably equipped with the third-generation Snapdragon 8, with UFS4.0+ LPDDR5X memory combination, and with the Lingxi performance engine, it can achieve fast mobile phone operation, fast application launch, and fast game loading.

In terms of imaging, the Nubia Z60Ultra launched the "Neovision Taishan Image System", the rear three lenses cover 18mm wide angle, 35mm humanities, and 85mm portrait focal length, and all support OIS optical image stabilization and 4K 120 frames of video recording, to meet the needs of users for full-scene shooting. Paired with the three 18-bit perception ISPs of the third-generation Snapdragon 8, the Nubia Z60Ultra innovatively achieves three main cameras with 4K120 frames of high-definition video, the first mobile phone video pre-recording, ultra-wide-angle super stabilization video, and low-light video, making the video picture of each scene more high-definition and stable, and promoting the development of mobile phone imaging.

Summary:

Less than two months after the release of the third-generation Snapdragon 8 mobile platform, there have been a wealth of mobile phone terminals on the market, including the Xiaomi 12 series, Redmi K70 Pro, Meizu 21, OnePlus 12, Realme GT5 Pro, as well as the iQOO12 series, Red Magic 9 Pro series, and of course, the Nubia Z60 Ultra, which focuses on imaging, is indispensable.

The third-generation Snapdragon 8 has achieved a comprehensive transcendence in performance, AI, imaging, gaming, connectivity, energy efficiency and other dimensions, and major terminal brands can create products with different functions and different positioning based on this, so as to achieve product differentiation and meet everyone's different needs for mobile phones.