Qualcomm has finally introduced its next-gen Snapdragon Gen 2 mobile platform at Snapdragon Summit 2022. This is a little unusual for the chipset maker, as the event where Qualcomm unveils its flagship chipset generally happens in December. But here we are, and the new flagship Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset brings new improvements, specifically in the core design and AI arena. Check out the details below to know more.
The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset, which succeeds last year’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, has a Kryo CPU with the prime core clocked at up to 3.2GHz, 4 performance cores clocked up to 2.8GHz, and 3 efficiency cores at up to 2.0GHz.
Snapdragon Elite Gaming also brings another interesting upgrade, now enabling hardware-based ray tracing (much like the recently announced MediaTek Dimensity 9200 SoC). The SoC includes the new Qualcomm Adreno 740 GPU for 25% faster GPU performance and 40% improved efficiency. There’s support for Unreal Engine 5 Metahumans Framework and Vulkan 1.3 APIs.
For imaging, there’s support for the Qualcomm Spectra 18-bit triple Cognitive ISP, which enhances images and videos with semantic segmentation. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 comes with support for up to 200MP cameras (click 36MP photos simultaneously with all three cameras), 8K HDR videos, and more.
The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset will reach phones by OEMs like OnePlus, Motorola, iQOO, Xiaomi, Asus, Oppo, Sony, Redmi, and more by the end of 2022. We expect the upcoming Vivo X90 Pro+, iQOO 11, Xiaomi 13, Samsung Galaxy S23 series, and other new Android flagships to be powered by Qualcomm’s new chipset.
