Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 from Qualcomm has the features 2023 flagships yearn for


The past year has been extremely unpredictable for Qualcomm. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 came to mixed reviews despite a promising launch that powered some of our favorite smartphones of the year. As part of a comprehensive rebranding strategy, devices using the original chipset discovered that it overheated easily, throttled under heavy use, and had poor battery life. However, the business had success in the second part of the year, propelled by a number of superb mid-range CPUs and, most significantly, the introduction of the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1.

The few devices using the TSMC-made processor also have good battery life, so Qualcomm is free to move on to its first second-gen launch under its current branding with those heating issues seemingly in the rearview mirror. The 4nm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip, produced by TSMC once more, is now available. And while that might appear uninteresting on paper, it builds on its predecessors in some genuinely novel ways that might make the lineup of flagships for the following year some of the most dependable and durable yet.

SDM8 Gen 2: Stunning performance

Qualcomm's newest Kyro CPU is constructed using a similar, though not identical, composition to MediaTek's current high-performance efforts, as if it were intended to compete head-to-head with them. Snapdragon, like the Dimensity 9200, uses a 3.2 GHz Cortex X3 primary core, which should represent a significant improvement over the Cortex X2 of last year. Four "performance" cores—two A710, two A715—and three "efficiency" cores support it, which is a slight departure from how MediaTek built its CPU this year. These A710 cores also guarantee that 32-bit software are supported even when the market shifts to a 64-bit environment.


Qualcomm is joining the contest for hardware ray tracing, competing with MediaTek. The Adreno GPU in the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has a performance improvement of 25% over the chip from the previous year and a 40% efficiency improvement. Those are fantastic results compared to the previous year, which might aid Qualcomm in avoiding the throttling difficulties encountered on Gen 1.

We'll have to wait and observe how mobile app developers utilize better lighting and effect before making any judgments on ray tracing. While free-to-play games like Candy Crush currently dominate the mobile gaming market, other hits like League of Legends and Call of Duty: Mobile may be able to use this technology to appear more like their PC versions. It seems much more realistic given that Tencent is one of the partners for ray tracing.

Networking, AI, cameras, and beyond with Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

Hey, Qualcomm, isn't that right? In other words, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has a brand-new 5G modem at its core that supports DSDA, or Dual-SIM Dual-Active. However, the arrival of Wi-Fi 7 is more likely to thrill most smartphone buyers. Wi-Fi 6E is still relatively new, so it's possible that support for its upcoming successor will seem at best superfluous. Fixing this connectivity is essential, though, as users continue to keep their phones for three, four, or even five years. This week, TP-Link just introduced a Wi-Fi 7 router, so it's obvious that better wireless is coming soon.

While I believe that most smartphone experts are mostly interested in performance and battery improvements, Qualcomm continues to concentrate on AI. It should come as no surprise that Google's Tensor processors are exceptionally adept at handling on-the-fly photo processing, which is one of the things that makes contemporary Pixels so great. With its up to 4.35x faster speed, Qualcomm's most recent AI Engine enables the development of tools like better cinematic blur while filming and multi-language translation.


Dual AI processors have also been added to Snapdragon's Sensing Hub in an effort to improve voice recognition and enable personalized wake words. Since AI on smartphones is still in its infancy, Qualcomm's efforts to compete with Google, at least on the hardware front, are exciting to me. When device makers and other developers get their hands on these tools, we'll have to wait and watch how they translate into genuine features on upcoming devices.

Additionally, AI is changing the way Qualcomm views cameras. Snapdragon Sight now comes with the first Cognitive ISP created by the firm, a neural network driven by AI that works to identify particular items in the frame and improves their appearance in real time. Nearly all of the objects you're already taking images of—buildings, plants, people, and clothing—are supported. On the hardware side, Qualcomm has added support for 8K HDR video recording at 60FPS and, more importantly, AV1 support, which makes Samsung's excellent 200MP ISOCELL HP3 perfectly suited for the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. Once more, 8K recording strikes me as a feature that, while perhaps not immediately advantageous, will have a significant impact three, four, or even five years from now.

Your upcoming smartphone will be powered by Snapdragon 8 Gen 2.

OnePlus, Asus, Motorola, and Sony are just a few of the companies that Qualcomm has previously partnered with. Although we are aware that the two corporations expanded their collaboration earlier this year, Samsung is conspicuously absent from the list. The Galaxy S23 series won't start using this technology until early in the next year, but new hardware from other partners is scheduled to debut before the year is out.

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