Qualcomm will launch the Snapdragon 8th Gen 2 next year, which will have higher power efficiency than the Snapdragon 8 Plus 1 generation, according to a source. And it provides a 20% performance improvement over its predecessors. Since Qualcomm will use TSMC's 4nm process in the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, Yogesh Brar believes the new SoC should show similar efficiency metrics to the Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1.
Judging from the way Yogesh wrote the tweet, he seemed to have seen flagship phones operated with Snapdragon 8th generation, so he made this statement. He also said the chipset runs cool, but does not share heat dissipation information, so we can't comment on how it performs during prolonged stress.
Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1's Cortex-X2 runs at the same clock speed as the Cortex-X3 of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, but the Cortex-X3 is made on an improved architecture. Similarly, Qualcomm is said to have used the latest Cortex-A715 core of ARM, so the combination of the latter and Cortex-X3 may bring performance improvements.
One Cortex-X3 core runs at 3.20GHz
Two Cortex-A715 cores runs at 2.80GHz
Two Cortex-A710 cores runs at 2.80GHz
Three Cortex-A510 runs at 2.00GHz
Yogesh does not mention whether Qualcomm is preparing two versions of the Snapdragon 8th Gen 2. The first impression currently gives people is that it is a wise move for Qualcomm to transfer its 4nm process to TSMC. Compared with the 4nm technology of Samsung , the evidence for this node is an earlier gaming benchmark, where the Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 even beats Apple 's A15 Bionic .
As Qualcomm officially announced the date of its annual Snapdragon summit, we will soon see what the company has prepared for us. If you want to learn more about the upcoming flagship chip, be sure to read our detailed rumor overview to get the situation ahead of time.
