1 On November 16, Qualcomm 's new flagship mobile platform Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 was officially released. With the TSMC Dimensity 9200 and Apple 's A16 that have been released earlier, this year's mobile platform chips have been released. I believe everyone is as curious as me. Now that the mobile chip market has joined the TSMC Dimensity 9200, who will be the main ups and downs in the fight?
First of all, the Dimensity 9200 and Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 released this time are equipped with hardware-level mobile ray tracing technology. The difference between the two is that Dimensity 9200 is a hardware-level mobile ray tracing implemented based on ARM Immortalis-G715, while Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is achieved by adding a self-developed ray tracing unit to the new generation of Adreno GPUs.
In terms of memory support: MediaTek 's Dimensity 9200 supports LPDDR5X 8533Mbps memory, optimized for the support of UFS 4.0 flash chip, and introduced multi-cycle queue acceleration technology. Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 supports 4200MHz LPDDR5X, while Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 does not have the last two optimizations of Dimensity 9200.
Finally, MediaTek's Dimensity 9200 uses the latest second generation TSMC 4nm process technology (N4P), while Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 still uses the first generation TSMC 4nm process (N4).
Then the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is compared with Apple A16 (actually, it is a bit difficult to use A16, because the two are not on the same level. Whether it is single-core or multi-core A16, it completely crushes Snapdragon 8 Gen 2).
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8Gen2 chip's single-core score is 1524, multi-core score is 4597, while Apple's A16 chip's single-core score is 1888 and multi-core score is 5528. Both scores are higher than those of Qualcomm chips.
So, what level can Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 be equivalent to Apple?
iPhone13 pre max equipped with Apple A15 has a single-core score of 1737 and a multi-core score of 4817. The single-core score of samsung sms918u equipped with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8Gen2 chip is 1521 and the multi-core score is 4689.
The single-core score of iPhone13 pre max equipped with Apple A15 is 1588, and the multi-core score is 4212. The single-core score of samsung sms918u equipped with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8Gen2 chip is 1521 and the multi-core score is 4689.
From these data, we can see that in fact, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8Gen2 chip released this time is not only a huge gap with Apple A16, but even the A15 last year cannot surpass it. It is just that it can fight back and forth on A14. What makes Qualcomm even more embarrassing is that today's Snapdragon not only has a huge gap with Apple's A-series chips, but MediaTek's Dimensity series has also caught up. If Qualcomm, which is sandwiched in the middle, still cannot find a new breakthrough point, it will definitely be very difficult in the next few years.
