It’s six months past Qualcomm’s reveal of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, this is the most powerful chipset yet for cell phones, we can consider it to enhance the performance and power efficiency of smartphones.
The Snapdragon 8 Gen 1’s offered sub-par performance with CPU throttling issues and poor battery life. This happened due to technical failures that came with using Samsung’s inferior 4nm manufacturing process.
To solve issues of the 8 Gen 1, the San Diego-based company announced its latest Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 chipset in May this year, jettisoning Samsung’s far inferior 4nm process in favor of TSMC’s N4 (4nm) manufacturing process.
With this chipset, some Smartphones are available in the market, such as the Asus ROG Phone 6 and many others. Now at this time is hard to find which chipset is better for our phone to solve this we compare Qualcomm’s new chipset with its previous version.
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 vs Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1
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- CPU Architecture & Fabrication: The chipset of Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 is manufactured by Samsung using the 4nm process. This chipset contains 8 cores based on the latest Armv9 architecture, including 1 Cortex-X2 Prime core clocked at 3 GHz, 3x Cortex-A710 Gold cores clocked at 2.5 GHz, and 4x Cortex-A510 Silver cores clocked at 1.8 GHz. In Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 has the same octa-core configuration based on the Armv9 architecture as the Snapdragon 8+, has a faster Cortex X2 Prime core that clocks at 3.2 GHz and is fabricated using TSMC’s N4 (4 nm) process. This chipset has 10% more performance and 30% more power efficiency thanks to TSMC’s advanced manufacturing process.
- GPU & Gaming Performance: The Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 has plenty of GPU horsepower thanks to its Adreno 730 GPU with a clock frequency of 800 MHz. The Adreno 730 GPU in the 8+ Gen 1 has been boosted by 10% more clock speed than its predecessor. The Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 features VRS (Variable Rate Shading) for a smoother and more immersive gaming experience.
- Wireless & Cellular Connectivity: The Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 has a Snapdragon X65 5G modem, which can deliver speeds of up to 10 Gbps with support for high-frequency mm-wave 5G at close range. Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 is different in terms of Bluetooth as compared to the previous ones which supported Bluetooth 5.2 and LE audio, the SD 8+ Gen 1 now supports Bluetooth 5.3 and Qualcomm’s aptX Lossless Audio codec, which can be used to transmit wireless music in 16-bit 44.1 kHz CD quality with negligible latency.
- ISP & Camera Performance: The Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 can capture up to 30 frames in a second to create an image processing pipeline that merges them for a brighter and more visible image in low-light conditions. Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 is similar to the previous one like video recorders supporting HDR video recording at 8K 30FPS or 4K at 120FPS. In addition, both chipsets enable 64MP photos to be taken without shutter lag.
- Hardware Support: Both the 8 Gen 1 and 8+ Gen 1 support HDR10+ certified 10-bit displays, which can offer a maximum resolution and refresh rate of 4K at 60 Hz or QHD+ at 144 Hz.
- AI & ML Performance: Both the 8 Gen 1 and 8+ Gen 1 are equipped with Qualcomm’s 7th generation AI engine, which is estimated to perform nearly 27 trillion operations per second.
Now we see all Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 and Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 features, both similar as hardware aspects, AI and Performance, and many more but this chipset is enhancing the gaming experience so far.
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