Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen2 outlines: new architecture and 10% more power

From China we are already expecting many details of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 which will be unveiled next November.

It’s not official yet, but from hints we already know—or rather, we’ve been intuited Qualcomm will release its next flagship chip sooner than expected By all, good going a Snapdragon 8 Gen2 That will not wait until 2023 and can already be presented to society throughout Next NovemberOnly 4 weeks left.

That seems to be the San Diego firm’s idea Give a cable from different manufacturersWhich will thus enable them to advance the new generation of mobiles flagship Just as they plan to go live with their X90 Pro+, looking sure Compete better in time With the new iPhone 14 that just landed.

Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Gen2 adopts a 1+2+2+3 architecture with clock speeds up to 2.84 GHz.

Be that as it may, and far from Qualcomm’s intention, this is the truth The wheels of the media are moving a lot Announcing the upcoming presentation, so fellow students GizChina Some were ahead of us Future details and still speculative Snapdragon 8 Gen2 Happens frequently on Chinese social networks Weibo.

Everything seems to be pointing, and the quality of the leak confirms that Qualcomm will launch its new flagship generation this year with a Snapdragon 8 Gen2 that could arrive as early as next November.

According to Liquor Chinese, Qualcomm will have new top-of-the-range chips Model code SM8550Adoption a New architecture With four leaps in performance and energy efficiency among its eight cores, a novel 1+2+2+3 Which unfortunately hasn’t got a commercial name yet.

In each case the clock speed will be 2.84 GHz for the most performance coreswith its additions between groups of two cores at 2.4 GHz which can work together or separately as needed, thus saving energy without sacrificing performance. For its part, there will be low cost groups 3 cores running at 1.8 GHz.

Sources say that compared to the previous generation, Snapdragon 8+ Gen1, Up to 10% improvement in CPU performanceBeing more efficient in the energy consumption department.

To put it in context, you already know that The current Snapdragon 8 Gen1 generation has a three-phase configurationwith a processor Octa-core Cortex-X2 units up to 3.19 GHz, along with 3 Cortex-A710 units operating at up to 2.75 GHz and four Cortex-A510 units up to 1.80 GHz in the model PlusWhich already with its TSMC 4-nanometer lithography Managed to improve energy consumption by 30%Nothing less.

In addition, we are also informed that the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen2 chipset will make a debut New faster and more efficient GPU, Adreno 740In addition to implementing a New X70 5G Modem Able to maintain current values ​​and support maximum download speeds Up to 10 Gbps on 5G networks.

We’ll be paying attention to Qualcomm, because if it’s going to show off the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 in November, the leak will happen next week… we’re impatient!