Snapdragon SM8550 Exposure
Recently, Qualcomm’s latest Android flagship chipset Snapdragon 8+ Gen1 mobile platform was officially released, CPU main frequency reaches 3.2GHz, bringing a 10% performance increase.
Compared to the previous generation of the platform, GPU frequency increased by 10%; With the same performance, the CPU and GPU power consumption of Snapdragon 8+ are both reduced by up to 30%.
Achieving both energy efficiency and performance breakthroughs, and supporting the ultimate gaming, professional imaging, powerful AI, and full-speed connectivity, bringing the ultimate terminal experience across the board.
According to Digital Chat Station, Snapdragon 8+ domestic mass production schedule delivery is the end of April, and the first batch of new machines have to debug to June system package.
He also stressed that at the end of the year there will be the SM8550 (Snapdragon 8 Gen2), which is also with a new TSMC + ARM architecture. For some manufacturers, the choice between using Snapdragon 8+ Gen1 or Snapdragon 8 Gen2 will be a matter of product positioning.
In addition, Ice Universe also brought his report about Snapdragon SM8550. He claimed that the energy efficiency ratio of SM8550 is better than Snapdragon 8 Gen1, Snapdragon 888, and Snapdragon 8+ Gen1.
Ice Universe furthermore said that the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S23 Series will not have any reason to use its own Exynos chipset because of the growing gap between Qualcomm’s Snapdragon and Exynos chipset.