Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 officially launched. Of course, there are a number of advantages that distinguish the latest 8 flagship chipset from its predecessor, Snapdragon 8 Gen 1.
The presence of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset will revolutionize your smartphone and will provide an extraordinary experience. Not without reason, this refers to several improvements and breakthroughs in the chipset.
What are the advantages of Snapdragon 8 Gen 2? Let's see!
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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Officially Released
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 was officially released at the Snapdragon Summit event in Hawaii, November 15 2022. There are several advantages to this chipset that you need to know about.
Senior Vice President and General Manager of Mobile Handsets at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., Chris Patrick, stated that he believes that Snapdragon will revolutionize the flagship smartphone landscape in 2023.
“We are passionate about enabling people to do more, so we designed Snapdragon with the user at the center. Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, will revolutionize the flagship smartphone landscape in 2023," he said as quoted from the official website Qualcomm.
Among them, there is Snapdragon Smart which enables breakthrough AI experiences such as language processing which is of course faster with multilingual translation and INT4 support.
Then, there is the addition of Snapdragon Sight™ technology which includes the new Cognitive ISP to provide support for real-time semantic segmentation when capturing photos and videos. Where, this chipset provides a breakthrough in the form of adjustable quality improvements.
Then, there is the Snapdragon Elite Gaming™ which delivers industry-standard gameplay.
Then, there are Snapdragon Connect enhancements including unrivaled connectivity featuring the world's first 5G AI processor on a mobile platform. Also, being the only commercial Wi-Fi 7 SoC with High Band Simultaneous Multi-Link.
Not only that, but there's also the addition of Snapdragon Sound™ technology that supports spatial audio with dynamic tracking to deliver the ultimate in ultra-immersive gaming and multimedia experiences. Here's an explanation of each of its advantages!
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Snapdragon Smart
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 provides an integrated AI breakthrough supported by the fastest and latest Qualcomm AI Engine. Processing will be faster with advanced and multilingual AI camera features.
Snapdragon Sight
This chipset makes it possible to automate photo enhancements and Cognitive ISP first with semantic segmentation that uses AI nerves to contextually create the camera to recognize clothing, faces, facial features, hair, sky and more.
Snapdragon Elite Gaming
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 also comes with the latest features, namely Snapdragon Elite Gaming, which is getting faster with hardware in real time. Then, \provides real light, reflection, and illumination for mobile games.
In addition, the Qualcomm® Adreno™ GPU has also been increased up to 25% and also the Qualcomm® Kryo™ CPU which allows power efficiency to reach up to 40% higher.
With this feature gamers can play longer thanks to the existing battery. In addition, game players will also get photorealistic images.
Snapdragon Connect
This chipset is called the most advanced 5G platform in the world. Where, Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 offers unrivaled connectivity from 5G, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 featuring Snapdragon X70 5G Modem-RF System with Qualcomm® 5G AI Processor harnesses the power of AI to speed up the download and download process.
Snapdragon Sound
In addition, Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is also supported by Snapdragon Sound technology for premium music, calls and games.
This technology delivers spatial audio with dynamic tracking for immersive, full surround sound.
Then, 48kHz lossless music streaming is supported so that every detail of the music sounds as desired.
Snapdragon Secure
Furthermore, there is also Snapdragon Secure which protects Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. These features offer isolation, cryptography, attestation and more designed to protect user data.
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HP Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
Later this chipset will be present in a number of smartphone brands. Of course, you can't wait to use a smartphone that is complete with this chipset.
It is targeted that the first commercial devices using this chipset will be available at the end of 2022.
This latest chipset will be used by OEMs and a number of global brands such as:
- ASUS Republic of Gamers
- HONOR
- iQOO
- Motorola
- nubians
- oneplus
- SHARP
- redmi
- OPPO
- REDMAGIC
- Sony Corporation
- Vivo
- Xiaomi
- XINGJI/MEIZU, and
- ZTE
Features of Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
- Qualcomm® Artificial Intelligence (AI) Engine
- AIE CPU: Qualcomm® Kryo™ CPU
- AIE GPU: Qualcomm® Adreno™ GPU
- Qualcomm® Hexagon™ Processor: Fused AI Accelerator architecture, Qualcomm® Hexagon™ Vector eXtensions (HVX), Dedicated power delivery system, Micro tile inferencing , Qualcomm® Hexagon™ Scalar Accelerator, Qualcomm® Hexagon™ Tensor Accelerator, Hexagon Direct Link
- Qualcomm Sensing Hub: Dual-core AI processor, Always-sensing camera
- Software support: Qualcomm® AI Stack
- CPUs
- CPU Cores: Qualcomm® Kryo™ CPUs
- CPU Clock Speed: Up to 3.2 GHz
- CPU Architecture: 64-bit
- Cellular Modem-RF
- Modem Name: Snapdragon™ X70 5G Modem-RF System
- Peak Download Speed: 10 Gbps
- Peak Upload Speed: 3.5 Gbps
- Cellular Modem-RF Specs: 8 carriers (mmWave), 4×4 MIMO (Sub-6), 2×2 MIMO (mmWave)
- Performance Enhancement Technologies: Qualcomm® 5G AI Suite, Qualcomm® Smart Transmit 3.0 technology, Qualcomm® 5G PowerSave Gen 3, Qualcomm® Wideband Envelope Tracking, Qualcomm® AI-Enhanced Signal Boost, Qualcomm® 5G Ultra-Low Latency Suite
- Cellular Technology: 5G mmWave and sub-6 GHz, SA (standalone), SA (standalone) including standalone mmWave, NSA (non-standalone), NR-DC (mmWave-sub6 dual connectivity), EN-DC, FDD, TDD, HSPA, WCDMA, LTE, CBRS, TD-SCDMA, CDMA 1x, EV-DO, GSM/EDGE
- Multi SIM: Global 5G Multi-SIM, Dual-SIM Dual-Active (DSDA) 5G+5G and 5G+4G
- Wi-Fi
- Wi-Fi/Bluetooth System: Qualcomm® FastConnect™ 7800
- Peak Speed: 5.8 Gbps
- Generation: Wi-Fi 7
- Standards: 802.11be, 802.11ax, 802.11ac, 802.11a/b/g/n
- Wi-Fi Spectral Bands: 6 GHz, 5 GHz, 2.4 GHz
- Peak QAM: 4K QAM
- Wi-Fi Features: High Band Simultaneous (HBS) Multi-Link, OFDMA (Uplink and Downlink), MU-MIMO (Uplink and Downlink), 320 MHz (Single channel or 160 + 160), Wi-Fi Aware R3, Wi-Fi Fi Location, Wi-Fi Optimized Connectivity, Wi-Fi QoS Management, Miracast, TDLS, Passpoint, Voice-Enterprise
- bluetooth
- Wi-Fi/Bluetooth System: Qualcomm® FastConnect™ 7800
- Bluetooth Specification Version: Bluetooth 5.3
- Bluetooth Features: LE Audio Features, Dual Bluetooth, Snapdragon Sound™ technology suite
- Location
- Location Support: Qualcomm® Location Suite
- Satellite Systems Support: BeiDou, Galileo, GLONASS, NavIC, GPS, QZSS
- Dual Frequency Support: Yes (L1/L5)
- Accuracy: Urban pedestrian navigation with sidewalk accuracy
- Additional Location Features: Global freeway lane-level vehicle navigation
- NFC
- Near Field Communications: Supported
- USB
- USB Version: USB 3.1, USB-C
- camera
- Image Signal Processor: Qualcomm Spectra™ Cognitive ISP, Triple 18-bit ISPs, Hardware accelerator for computer vision (CV-ISP)
- Real-time Semantic Segmentation Photo and Video Processing: Supported
- Triple Camera, MFNR, ZSL, 30fps: Up to 36 MP
- Dual Camera, MFNR, ZSL, 30fps: Up to 64+36 MP
- Single Camera, MFNR, ZSL, 30fps: Up to 108 MP
- Single Camera: Up to 200 MP
- Camera Features: Multi-frame Noise Reduction (MFNR), Locally Motion Compensated Temporal Filtering, AI-based face detection, auto-focus, and auto-exposure, Mega Low light photography, Engine for Visual Analytics 3.0
- Slow Motion Video Capture: 720p @ 960 FPS
- Video Capture Formats: Dolby Vision, HDR10, HDR10+, HLG
- Computational HDR Video Capture: Up to 4 exposures(with QDOL image sensors), Support for Staggered HDR Image Sensors
- Video Capture: Up to 8K 30fps or 4K 120fps video capture
- Video Capture Features: Bokeh Engine ver. 2 for Video Capture, Video super resolution, Engine for Visual Analytics 3.0
- Video Playback
- Video Playback: 8K Video Playback @ 60 FPS, HDR Vivid, HDR Playback Codec support for HDR10+, HDR10, HLG and Dolby Vision
- Codec Support: H.264 (AVC), H.265 (HEVC), AV1, VP8, VP9
- Displays
- Max On-Device Display: 4K @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz
- Max External Display: Up to 4K @ 60 Hz
- HDR: HDR10+, HDR10, HDR Vivid
- Color Depth: Up to 10-bit
- Color Gamut: Rec2020
- audios
- Qualcomm Aqstic™ technology: Qualcomm Aqstic™ audio codec, Qualcomm Aqstic™ smart speaker amplifier
- Qualcomm® aptX™ audio playback support: Qualcomm® aptX™ Voice, Qualcomm® aptX™ Lossless, Qualcomm® aptX™ Adaptive
- GPUs
- GPU Name: Qualcomm® Adreno™ GPU
- API Support: Vulkan® 1.3, OpenGL® ES 3.2, OpenCL™ 2.0 FP
- charging
- Qualcomm® Quick Charge™ Technology Support: Qualcomm® Quick Charge™ 5 technology
- Security Support
- Secure Processing Unit: Biometric Authentication (Fingerprint, Iris, Voice, Face)
- Security Features: Trust Management Engine, Qualcomm® Trusted Execution Environment (TEE), Qualcomm® Wireless Edge Services (WES), Qualcomm® Type-1 Hypervisor, Platform Security Foundations
- Sensors: Qualcomm® 3D Sonic Sensor, Qualcomm® 3D Sonic Max
- Memory
- Memory Speed: 4200 MHz
- Memory Type: LPDDR5x
- Process
- Process Nodes and Technology: 4 nm
- Part
- Part Number(s): SM8550-AB
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