Xiaomi will release Xiaomi 11 series on December 28, one of the biggest highlights is the world’s first equipped with Snapdragon 888, it is said that there is still a period of exclusivity. This morning, Xiaomi to the new machine warm-up, Lei Jun posted that Xiaomi 11 is the first to carry Snapdragon 888, the world’s first is a strength and officially released Xiaomi 11 Snapdragon 888 performance Comparison with Kirin 9000 and Snapdragon 865.
In terms of specifications, the CPU part of Snapdragon 888 adopts a 1+3+4 architecture design, including a 2.84GHz Cortex-X1 core, three 2.42GHz Cortex-A78 cores, and four 1.8GHz Cortex-A55 cores, claiming a 25% increase in CPU performance and a 25% increase in energy efficiency ratio.
The GPU part is the Adreno 660, which is officially claimed to have achieved the most significant performance improvement to date, with graphics rendering speeds up to 35 percent faster than the previous generation platform.
In terms of scores, Qualcomm has used the Snapdragon 888 reference design prototype in three previous videos for the AnTuTu scores, with scores of 740,847, 73,916, and 733,554 respectively. A huge amount of technical development, debugging, and finally the full potential of it. Now the official Xiaomi phone has brought the performance of the Xiaomi 11 Snapdragon 888 to light.
Xiaomi 11 Snapdragon 888 Performance: fantastic performance, the new standard of performance in 2021 (Official Text, Translated)
Extreme performance is the gene engraved in the bones of Xiaomi’s digital flagship. Starting from the first generation of Xiaomi in 2011, after ten years, each generation of the digital flagship, almost all use the most powerful processor of the year, but also almost all are the first in the industry.
Xiaomi 11, as the beginning of the new decade of Xiaomi, the performance will naturally not disappoint. The world’s first Android strongest core – Snapdragon 888, compared to the previous generation flagship Snapdragon 865 comprehensive improvement, with the most powerful mega-core, the most significant GPU performance upgrade ever, the most powerful AI computing power on the ground, so ferocious performance, bursting in more than ten billion transistors, and concentrated in a thumb-sized A tiny chip.
First Cortex-X1 Super Large Core: Performance soars 30%, Open the era of Android super big core
At present, most of the Android flagship platforms on the market still use the same Cortex-A77 as the “big core” and “super core” as Snapdragon 865, in fact, as early as May, Arm has released a new performance core Cortex-A78 to replace Cortex-A77 and a new design and focus on improving the peak performance of the core Cortex-X1, the latter is also the real sense of Arm “super core.”
In addition to the “normal operation” of four custom A55 1.8GHz small cores, Snapdragon 888 also has a 2.84GHz mega-core based on X1 and three 2.42GHz large cores based on A78, a combination that will deliver much more powerful single-core performance and multi-core performance than both previous generation flagships and friendly processors.
According to Arm’s official data, the performance of X1 at the same frequency is improved by up to 30% compared to A77, from the frequency of each core, relying on X1 and A78 more powerful IPC (instruction per clock), even if the frequency remains the same as the previous generation, there is still a huge performance increase.
The current flagship processors in the Android camp all have super core designs, but these super cores are all frequency and cache boosts, and the architecture is no different from the big cores. The Snapdragon 888 is the first new flagship platform with a true super core, the “giant monster” Cortex-X1, which only pursues the peak performance. Super big core, more open the door to a new world of Android phone performance.
Single-core performance is an important indicator of cell phone CPU performance, in many theoretical tests can be seen in the single-core performance special test. The significance of single-core performance improvement is believed to be self-evident, because almost all operations in cell phones are inseparable from the operation of high-performance cores, especially in some scenarios with high requirements for instantaneous performance, the performance advantages of X1 cores will be fully reflected.
The X1’s single-core performance is up to 30% better than the A77, and with the higher frequency, the gap between the Snapdragon 888’s “mega-core” and “big-core” single-core performance will be wide. The Snapdragon 888 is the first chip of X1, its performance is undoubtedly very much expected.
In the Geekbench 5 test, the single-core performance reached 1135, and the multi-core was as high as 3818, both scores won the most Android platform, which is enough to prove the excellent CPU performance of Snapdragon 888.
The most powerful Adreno 660 GPU to date
35% increase in performance! The biggest boost ever
Qualcomm’s Adreno series GPUs are the “gold standard” of mobile graphics processors, featuring excellent performance and sufficient sustained performance output, with better energy efficiency compared to friendly processors.
The Snapdragon 888 is equipped with a new generation of GPU called Adreno 660, which has a 35% performance increase over the previous generation of Adreno 650, and with the third generation of Snapdragon Elite Gaming technology, the Adreno 660 has the largest gaming performance increase in Snapdragon history.
According to GFXBench 5.0 test frame rates, the Snapdragon 888 is significantly ahead of other Android models in both old and new scenarios.
In addition to the computing performance advancements, the Adreno 660 also provides stronger and more comprehensive peripheral support for Xiaomi 11, such as two new features: Variable Rate Shading and Qualcomm Game Quick Touch. Variable resolution rendering helps reduce GPU workload while significantly enhancing game performance. This will enable the next generation of mobile games to be played at a higher resolution. This will enable next-generation mobile games to run faster and at a higher resolution, while still maintaining the highest visual fidelity.
Qualcomm Game Quick Touch effectively improves touch response time when gaming, reducing touch response time by 10% at 120FPS and by 20% at 60FPS.
The most advanced technology and integrated baseband
Energy efficiency increased by 25%! 5nm process has done its job
Snapdragon 888 uses Samsung’s 5nm process, which is the most advanced process available and is one of the few 5nm 5G SoCs on the market. The GPU also has a 20% improvement in GPU efficiency with a 35% increase in performance. It is easy to see that the Snapdragon 888 will perform very well in terms of power consumption and is expected to be the first choice for a new generation of “nail biters.”
The Snapdragon 888 integrates Qualcomm’s latest X60 5G Modem, the third generation of Qualcomm’s 5G modem, which introduces more and more advanced 5G technologies from Qualcomm. X60 uses Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS) technology to achieve rapid deployment of 5G by sharing LTE spectrum, and also supports the “dual 5G” technology that many rice fans are concerned about. “The X60 is one of the most advanced chips today, both in terms of peak 5G rates and peripheral technologies.
Epoch-making upgrade Wi-Fi 6 enhanced version: Double the Internet speed! Download a movie in seconds
In addition to the power of X60, Snapdragon 888 also supports Qualcomm’s latest mobile connectivity system, FastConnect 6900, which supports new technologies such as Wi-Fi 6 Plus and Bluetooth 5.2. By pairing 160MHz in the 5GHz band with 4K QAM technology, dual-band concurrency can achieve the fastest 3570Mbps limit rate on today’s mobile platforms (compared to 1770Mbps in the previous generation).
With the support of the 160MHz bandwidth router, Xiaomi 11 single-band downlink rate will reach twice as high as the previous generation platform products, which is a huge increase. Such a high peak rate can fully meet the gigabit broadband for home use, and more importantly, it can achieve a far better intranet transmission experience, especially for some users who have NAS at home.
Sixth Generation AI Engine: 26TOPS powerful computing power! Exclusive
The sixth-generation Qualcomm AI engine used in Snapdragon 888 includes the new Qualcomm Hexagon 780 processor, which delivers three times more performance per watt than its predecessor and enables 26 trillion operations per second (26TOPS) of computing power. It includes new converged AI gas pedals, including a tensor gas pedal (2X performance improvement), a scalar gas pedal (50% performance improvement), and a vector gas pedal (support for more data types).
The stronger AI performance can bring stronger image recognition and voice recognition support to Xiaomi 11, as well as further improve image quality and expand more photography functions. Besides, Snapdragon 888 introduces the second-generation Qualcomm Sensor Hub, which has a 5x rise in AI performance, can reduce Hexagon’s load by up to 80%, and can handle multiple data streams such as 5G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and location simultaneously.
Compared to the previous generation Snapdragon 865 and the friendly A14, Snapdragon 888 remains the absolute leader.
The first triple-ISP Snapdragon platform: 35% faster-processing speed! Processing 2.7 billion pixels per second
The Snapdragon 888 is equipped with Spectra 580 ISP, the first Snapdragon mobile platform to support three ISPs. The computing performance reaches 2.7 billion pixels per second and supports concurrent shooting with three cameras. Users can shoot three focal lengths of 28 megapixel 30fps photos at the same time or three 4K HDR videos at the same time.
Such powerful ISP performance can meet the more complex multi-camera scenarios and needs of flagship phones. Xiaomi 10 series of video strength, I believe we all have seen, Xiaomi 11 will continue to make further efforts in the image, with the help of Spectra 580 ISP, I believe that the new flagship Xiaomi both photo and video recording performance will not let Mi fans disappointed.
Summary
I believe you already know about the powerful “core” of Xiaomi 11 Snapdragon 888. It is a flagship chip that will continue to deliver strong performance for Xiaomi 11, with a new architecture design and advanced process, and better power control at the same time. With Snapdragon 888, a new platform, Xiaomi 11 can bring what experience surprise, we will talk in detail at the launch, stay tuned.
