Qualcomm unveiled Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 at the annual Snapdragon Tech Summit on Wednesday — as its new 5G mobile platform for next-generation flagship Android phones.
The Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 – based on a 4nm process technology- will be equipped with the 7th Gen Qualcomm AI Engine that is rated to have two times larger shared memory along with a two times faster tensor accelerator to deliver a better per-watt performance over the 6th Gen Qualcomm AI Engine available on the Snapdragon 888.
Qualcomm has not yet revealed the exact names of the Kryo CPU and Adreno GPU available on its new chip. However, the Kryo CPU particularly has Arm Cortex-X2 cores that can be clocked up to 3GHz. The CPU is claimed 20 faster performance and 30 percent power efficiency over its counterpart available on the Snapdragon 888.
The new Adreno GPU is also rated to deliver a 30 percent boost in graphics rendering and 25 percent improvement in power saving in comparison with its predecessor.
Qualcomm has integrated its Snapdragon X65 5G Modem-RF System within the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 that is designed to reach 10 Gigabit download speeds.
The other notable addition to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 is Snapdragon Sight Technology that brings the first 18-bit image signal processor (ISP).