Qualcomm announced Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, SoC for to motorize high-end new generation mobile phones and which promises improvements in processing and graphics performance, energy efficiency, cameras, support for the latest standards, new features such as ray tracing and advances in artificial intelligence capabilities.

Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 will be Qualcomm’s most advanced mobile chipset at the beginning of 2023. Or what is the same, the best mobile engine, if we do not count the custom development that manufacturers such as Apple, Samsung or Google are producing in ever-increasing quantities. It will be available at the end of 2022, and interestingly, Qualcomm does not mention Samsung in its list of early customers, which supports reports that Samsung wants to strengthen its Exynos platform.

Features Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

This SoC will be manufactured by the TSMC foundry in the technological processes 4 nm. It contains the CPU, GPU, drivers, IA and camera processor and the entire chipset in the same package.

Its main processor is a ARM with 8 physical cores which, according to the manufacturer, will increase performance by 35% compared to the current Gen1.

• 1 Cortex-X3 at 3.2 GHz.
• 2 Cortex-A715 cores for performance tasks at 2.8 GHz.
• 2 Cortex-A710 cores for performance tasks at 2.8 GHz.
• 3 cores for efficient tasks with frequencies of 2 GHz.

as for graphic part, Qualcomm says the new Adreno will improve performance by 25%. It also announces improvements in other areas, such as up to a 4.35x increase in AI performance, as well as 60% more power per watt for sustained AI tasks and up to 40% improvement in energy efficiency, which is the part you know is very important on mobile devices.

It supports Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 screens with native resolutions from FHD to 4K at 60Hz, passing through QHD+ with a refresh rate of 144Hz. Improved capacity as well cameraswith sensors up to 200 megapixels and support for video recording up to 8K HDR and 10-bit HDR.

Qualcomm is also expanding support for next-generation standards such as wireless standards, Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.3. With the modem, of course, it supports fifth generation mobile networks. Snapdragon X70 5Gwhich has support for two SIM cards, dual active features for use with two 5G networks at the same time or a 5G network and a 4G network.

Finally, note that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is the first Qualcomm chip to support the AV1 video codec for 8K HDR video playback at up to 60 frames per second. And she is also the first to have support for hardware-accelerated ray tracing for real-time lighting effects in mobile games.

The chipset will be released at the end of 2022 in the most powerful smartphones on the market from the usual manufacturers that work with Qualcomm. More information | Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 mobile platform