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Yesterday, Qualcomm released the new flagship Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1+ and the high-end Snapdragon 7 Gen 1.
The Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 is the first Snapdragon 8 1st generation. While we don’t have X1 or X2 cores, Qualcomm has implemented the more power efficient Cortex-A710 on four cores.
As for the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1+, I usually write a review article highlighting some of the improvements achieved by slightly increasing the frequency.
However, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1+ is more interesting.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1+ Performance Boost vs. Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
Yes, it does have these frequency improvements, but this year these differences are more pronounced:
- The X2 core increased by 0.2Ghz, an increase of 6.66%.
- The three A710 cores in the middle get a 0.3Ghz improvement, which increases the clock by 12%
- Even the A510 core got a 0.2Ghz boost, an 11.11% boost
- On top of that, the Andreno GPU is also clocked 10% higher.
With an overall improvement of about 10%, you should easily get 10% overall performance.
Last year, the SD888+ saw little improvement, with the X1 core only improving by 5.46%, from 2.84Ghz to 2.995Ghz. It also improves AI performance.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1+ is 30% more efficient
A 10% frequency boost isn’t even the most impressive bit. Qualcomm claims a 30% increase in efficiency.
Last year, Qualcomm could only achieve a small performance improvement, but no efficiency improvement. How could such an improvement be possible?
Simple, really, they switched from a 4nm Samsung manufacturing process to a 4nm TSMC process. However, the actual process I want to do is not that simple.
Really, it’s probably not surprising. Everyone knows how bad Samsung is compared to TSMC. I’m sure Qualcomm is starting to get pretty nervous about MediaTek having a flagship chipset with comparable specs but using TSMC.
I guess the increased pressure from MediaTek was a big factor in Qualcomm making such a radical change to its existing chipsets.
It’s really embarrassing for Samsung that Qualcomm has made such a big change mid-cycle, with such a big increase in efficiency.
overall
The Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 and Snapdragon 8 Gen 1+ were, and still are, incredible chipsets. But they also feel like Qualcomm is taking a step back from the excellent Snapdragon 865 due to the shortened battery life of phones using these chipsets.
Obviously, it’s too early to say how much improvement we’ll see with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1+, but I hope Qualcomm gets back on track and we’ll see some amazing phones in the second half of the year.
