Qualcomm officially launched its Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 mobile platform this morning, and Red Magic has just announced that Red Magic 8 Pro series will be the first gaming phone powered by Snapdragon 8 Gen 2.
The Snapdragon 8 Gen2 is made with a 4nm technology, with one Cortex-X3-based Kryo super-large core with a dominant frequency of 3.2GHz and four performance cores (2 x Cortex A715+ 2 x Cortex A710, All 2.8GHz) and three Cortex-A510 energy efficient cores (small cores, 2.0GHz). Compared with Snapdragon 8, final CPU performance is 35% higher and power consumption is 40% lower. New generation Adreno GPU, performance improved by 25%, power consumption reduced by 45%, support Vulkan 1.3, support hardware-level ray tracing technology.
The Snapdragon 8 Gen2 is integrated with the new Hexagon processor, and the tensor unit is greatly enhanced, with some scenarios boasting a 4.35-fold performance improvement. Equipped with X70 5G baseband and the new FastConnect 7800 unit, it supports 5G dual-card dual-pass (up to 10Gbps downlink), Wi-Fi 7 (up to 5.8Gbps, Double Wi-Fi 6), Bluetooth 5.3, Bluetooth LE audio, 48kHz lossless audio, spatial audio, etc.
In addition, the new sensing ISP (3 18bit) supports the latest CMOS from Samsung and SONY, with a maximum of 200 million pixels per pixel and supports up to 8K 30P or 4K 120P video shooting.
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The first batch of Snapdragon 8 Gen2 will be carried by Xiaomi, Redmi, Honor, iQOO, OnePlus, OV and other manufacturers, and the new machine will launch one after another from the end of 2022.