I think all my friends should already know it by now.
Just two days ago, Xiaomi released three new digital series phones, Xiaomi 12S, 12S Pro and 12S Ultra, taking the lead in kicking off a new round of competition for flagship phones in the second half of the year.
In fact, compared to these new machines themselves, Tony is more concerned about the "Snapdragon 8+" chip they are equipped with.
Regarding the two previous Snapdragon 888 and Snapdragon 8 chips, I believe I don’t need to say more as everyone knows that since their release, their power consumption levels and heating performance have been controversial topics.
And on this Snapdragon 8+ chip, Qualcomm finally returned to the embrace of TSMC's foundry after two years.
According to official statements, Snapdragon 8+ has achieved a 10% improvement in CPU performance and GPU frequency compared to the previous generation.
The most important thing is that while the performance is improved, the CPU and GPU power consumption of the chip has been reduced by 30%, and the overall power consumption has been reduced by 15%.
This is a bit amazing. If Snapdragon 8+ really achieves double breakthroughs in performance and energy efficiency as Qualcomm said.
Then we can really buy the Android flagship in the second half of this year with confidence. Snapdragon 8+ even has the potential to become a new generation of God U!
However, as the saying goes, you don’t need to watch advertisements to see the efficacy. How the Snapdragon 8+ performs will only be known after actual testing.
Next, Tony will take the Xiaomi 12S Ultra in his hand as an example to show everyone whether it is really what everyone expects.
According to international practice, let us take a look at the running scores first.
in GeekBench 5’s CPU test.
The single-core score of Xiaomi 12S Ultra is 1303 points and the multi-core score is 4093 points. Compared with the Xiaomi 12 Pro single-core score of 1225 and multi-core score of 3720, it can be said that there is a significant improvement:
In the GFXbench GPU test.
Xiaomi Mi 12S Ultra equipped with Snapdragon 8+, whether it is Aztec Ruins OpenGL score or Vlukan score, is generally much higher than Xiaomi 12 Pro equipped with Snapdragon 8:
The same is true for 3DMark test and AnTuTu running scores.
Under the same test environment , Xiaomi 12S Ultra ran out scores of 2744 and 1075122 points respectively:
while Xiaomi 12 Pro scored 1836 and 1024360 points:
There is one thing to say. After running these tests, Xiaomi The performance of Dragon 8+ was somewhat beyond my expectations.
You must know that this is just a mid-year refreshed chip. In the past, Qualcomm only simply overclocked the CPU, and the performance usually did not improve so much ~
Of course, the benchmark scores are the benchmark scores.
These scores only represent the theoretical performance gap between the two chips. The power consumption and heating performance of Snapdragon 8+ during gaming is also what many people focus on.
First let’s talk about King of Glory.
When the image quality in the same test environment is turned to the highest, friends can see that both mobile phones can run stably at 120 frames when playing King of Kings, and the game screen is smooth:
After twenty minutes of game play .
The maximum temperature of the front of Xiaomi 12 Pro is 39.3 degrees, and the temperature of the back is 37.5 degrees. PerfDog measured its average power consumption as 3889.2mW, which translates into approximately 32.6mW energy consumption per frame:
And Xiaomi 12S Ultra after the game is over , the maximum temperature on the front of the fuselage is 38.7 degrees, and the temperature on the back is 37.4 degrees. Its average power consumption is only 3380mW, and each frame only consumes 28.1mW of energy:
Then there is the Genshin Impact that fans love to hear.
I have to say that Genshin Impact is indeed a qualified "performance test software". Once you play Genshin Impact with the full picture quality of the two mobile phones, you can immediately experience the difference between them.
After half an hour of Genshin Impact, The average frame rate of Xiaomi 12 Pro is 49.3 frames, while the average frame rate of Xiaomi 12S Ultra is 57.4 frames:
And can you believe that Xiaomi 12S Ultra has the highest temperature on the front and the back? The maximum temperature is much lower than that of Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro!
We can also see from the power consumption data measured by PerfDog, When Xiaomi 12S Ultra plays Genshin Impact, its single-frame energy consumption is 10.6mW lower than that of Xiaomi 12 Pro:
From these two mobile phones alone Judging from the game performance.
With the Xiaomi 12S Ultra powered by Snapdragon 8+, its power consumption has indeed been significantly reduced compared to the Xiaomi 12 Pro. Not only is the frame rate higher than the latter, but the heat generation is also lower than the latter.
If I was still skeptical about the energy efficiency performance of this chip before, now I am completely convinced!
It is worth mentioning that this time the energy efficiency improvement of Snapdragon 8+ was reflected in the daily battery life. Xiaomi 12S Ultra was used moderately, and its battery life suddenly reached ten hours:
This battery life is the same as what I have been using before. The is a qualitative leap compared to the Xiaomi 11, but this is also related to the fact that it is equipped with a 4860mAh battery.
Looking at it this way, has been polished by Qualcomm for more than half a year, and after switching to more advanced TSMC processes, Snapdragon 8+ definitely has reason to become our first choice for purchasing in the second half of the year.
After all, in addition to the performance and energy efficiency improvements of the CPU and GPU, the configuration of Snapdragon 8+ is also top-notch in other aspects.
Let’s take images as an example.
The 18-bit triple ISP installed on Snapdragon 8 and Snapdragon 8+ should be a huge upgrade made by Qualcomm in imaging in recent years. It is not an exaggeration to say that Qualcomm has crushed the toothpaste with one kick.
In the first half of the year, we have witnessed Xiaomi 12 Pro, OPPO Find X5 Pro and vivo X80 Pro equipped with Snapdragon 8, which have repeatedly refreshed our understanding of mobile computational photography.
And this Xiaomi 12S Ultra, equipped with Snapdragon 8+, a one-inch outsole and Leica support, can be said to have once again broken the ceiling of mobile phone imaging.
Whether the photos taken by this mobile phone have a strong Leica flavor or not is a secondary matter. Tony puts a few sample photos here so that friends can experience it for themselves:
What I want to emphasize here is.
Xiaomi 12S Ultra is actually the first Android phone to support Dolby Vision HDR recording. The Dolby Vision videos shot with it almost didn’t shock me with its picture quality, especially its latitude. . .
There is no doubt that such progress is obviously inseparable from the powerful ISP computing power support provided by Snapdragon 8+. It is hard to believe that mobile phone imaging can also be related to professionalism. Cameras that can shoot Dolby cost tens of thousands.
Thinking about it this way, Xiaomi 12S Ultra only sells for 5999, so you can make a lot of money~
In addition to ISP, the seventh-generation Qualcomm AI engine integrated in Snapdragon 8+ is up to 4 times better than the previous generation platform. This also provides Xiaomi 12S Ultra with It provides strong support for extending AI to more uses.
We have seen Xiaomi use AI before to bring us AI motion focus tracking and AI night scene noise reduction on Xiaomi Mi 12 Pro, which improves the phone's focusing ability and night scene performance to a new level.
On this Xiaomi 12S Ultra, these two functions are naturally inherited perfectly:
In addition, this time Xiaomi also fully utilized its AI capabilities to protect user privacy.
Xiaomi 12S Ultra transfers AI functions such as magic elimination, intelligent extraction, and intelligent recognition that originally need to be uploaded to the cloud for local processing, thereby better protecting privacy:
Although not everyone will use these functions, they cannot Deny it, today with the highly developed Internet, our personal privacy has indeed become easier to "streaking".
What is gratifying is that Snapdragon flagship chips have been working hard on security, and now more and more manufacturers are beginning to pay attention to data security and privacy protection.
Like vivo Therefore, it can be called a "flagship" chip, and the value it can give to mobile phones must be far more than that. There is nothing much to say about the
signal.
The Snapdragon 8+ integrated Snapdragon X65 5G modem and radio system remains the industry-leading 5G solution.
According to actual measurements, after Xiaomi 12S Ultra turned on 5G, the indoor download speed alone was 466Mbps. This network speed is equivalent to a wired broadband of more than 400 megabits, but the traffic is so fast that it hurts me. . .
In addition to the most basic signals, in order to do a good job in playing games, Qualcomm actually works hard . After four years of hard work, Snapdragon 8+ now supports more than 50 game features.
Among these features, there are many technologies that were originally only available on PC and console.
For example, the three-dimensional rendering technology that can create more realistic smoke drifting and flowing effects, and the variable resolution rendering technology that can increase the frame rate while reducing power consumption, have now been transplanted to mobile phones.
Another thing that many friends may not know is.
If we use a mobile phone equipped with a Snapdragon chip to connect to routers built on the Qualcomm platform, such as Xiaomi's new tri-band Mesh router, the network speed can even be improved to a certain extent.
This is the Wi-Fi technology of Snapdragon 8+ and Qualcomm platforms. It has many unique features that are stronger than the Wi-Fi standard, such as 4K QAM high-speed transmission technology, which can provide higher throughput.
Another example is the real-time dual Wi-Fi 6 technology that many people are familiar with, which can utilize two frequency bands for transmission at the same time, thus making Wi-Fi lower latency, faster, and wider.
Similarly, if the mobile phone manufacturer’s new TWS headset happens to be equipped with Qualcomm S3 or S5 audio chips, then you can enjoy the lossless Bluetooth sound quality and ultra-low latency voice calls brought by Snapdragon Listen technology.
In this way, the audio delay will be lower and the sound quality will be better when playing games. Presumably, we will be able to identify the position of the sound more quickly.
How to say something? Your uncle is still your uncle. Qualcomm’s long-term investment and technology accumulation in the mobile field over the years is indeed not the result of .
In short, I have already prepared the money. Next, it depends on what surprises the major mobile phone manufacturers will bring us in the second half of the year.
(This article is reproduced from a bad review)
