The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor has been released. The new chipset will power the most recent premium smartphones from the majority of Android smartphone manufacturers, including OnePlus, Xiaomi, Vivo, Realme, iQOO, and others. The new chipset was announced during the Snapdragon Summit 2022. Qualcomm claims that the new processor features a 35% faster CPU, a 25% faster GPU, and AI that is up to 435 percent faster. Another significant improvement is the inclusion of Ray Tracing capability in mobile phone games. The chipset also includes Wi-Fi 7, Always-Sensing Camera compatibility, and Dynamic Spatial Audio. For the chipset, the business has kept the 4nm design.
Details about Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip was just released
The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 will be used by ASUS Republic of Gamers, HONOR, iQOO, Motorola, nubia, OnePlus, OPPO, REDMAGIC, Redmi, SHARP, Sony Corporation, Vivo, Xiaomi, XINGJI/MEIZU, ZTE, according to Qualcomm. The first smartphones equipped with the new processor will be available before the end of this year.
“Because we are enthusiastic about empowering people, we create Snapdragon with the user in mind.” “In 2023, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 will revolutionize the landscape of flagship smartphones,” stated Chris Patrick, senior vice president, and general manager of mobile handsets. “With revolutionary AI, unrivaled connectivity, and champion-level gameplay, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 enables users to enhance every experience on their most trusted device.”
Features of the Snapdragon 8 Generation 2
AI Integration: The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 integrates AI throughout the system. It is equipped with a new Qualcomm Hexagon Processor, which enables faster natural language processing, multi-language translation, and superior AI camera functions. The Hexagon processor includes architecture advancements such as micro tile inferencing and a larger tensor accelerator for up to 4.35 times higher AI performance.
Gaming: Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 introduces new Snapdragon Elite Gaming capabilities, such as real-time hardware-accelerated ray tracing, which seeks to provide mobile games with life-like light, reflections, and illuminations. The updated Qualcomm Adreno GPU provides up to 25% quicker performance*, while the Qualcomm Kryo CPU provides up to 40% more power efficiency for longer battery life. With the world’s first mobile-optimized support for Unreal Engine 5 Metahumans Framework on Snapdragon, Qualcomm says that players will be able to enjoy photorealistic human characters in video games.
Camera experience: With the first Cognitive ISP, this new platform claims to provide professional quality camera experiences. Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 claims to offer real-time enhanced images and videos with semantic segmentation, which uses an AI neural network to make the camera contextually aware of faces, facial features, hair, clothes, skies, and more. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 CPU will individually optimize the photographs for “professional image tuning.” The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is also optimized for new picture sensors. The first 200-megapixel image sensor optimized for the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is the Samsung ISOCELL HP3.
