What will be the next best Snapdragon processor?

next best Snapdragon processor

There is little, very little left to meet the great top of the range of 2022 and, once again, it will be Xiaomi and Samsung (except surprise) who look side by side for launching the first phone with the Snapdragon flagship for the market. the next year. In 2020 Xiaomi won the game by launching the Mi 11 with the Snapdragon 888 on board. How will the successor to this powerful chipset be?

The leaks and leaks surrounding Qualcomm’s best processor for 2022 have been few and far between. Initially, it was speculated that it will be called Qualcomm Snapdragon 895. However, the well-known lekaster Ice Universe has claimed that it will be released as Snapdragon 898 instead, which makes more sense since it would follow the nomenclature started almost a year ago.

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What will be the most striking of this Snapdragon 898?

If we pay attention to the same leaks we can also know some of their key specifications. Unsurprisingly, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 898 will feature ARM’s newest Cortex X2 CPU core. It will run at 3.09 GHz , this core being a bit more powerful than the Cortex X1 core of the Snapdragon 888+, which runs at 3.0 GHz. Not that it’s an overwhelming difference, but in terms of marketing we already know how it goes. the thing.

This main chip is expected to be paired with three high-power Cortex A710 cores and three efficient Cortex A510 cores to save power for less demanding tasks. In this way it seems clear that the Snapdragon 898 will be the first Qualcomm chip to ditch the somewhat outdated Cortex A55 CPU cores by now. It is supposed to be manufactured in 4nm, thus surpassing the 5nm of the Apple A15 and its GPU will be the true turning point. The graphics chip used in the “beast” of Qualcomm would be the Adreno 730 , which would not only mean a numbering change in its nomenclature but would be a great step forward with respect to the Adreno 660 seen in the current family of the Snapdragon 888.

Other details that have already been leaked from the processor speak of the inclusion of a new ISP Spectra 680 image processor that will replace the Spectra 580 that we found in the Snapdragon 888, in addition to a new Snapdragon X65 5G modem. On paper, this implies logical improvements when it comes to managing the images captured by the phone’s camera and greater stability in the data connection.

The Samsung Galaxy S22 or the Xiaomi 12 , except for a huge surprise, should be the first smartphones to show off this great CPU on board.