The Snapdragon 888 is already in use with many flagship smartphones such as Mi 11, Realme Race, Oppo Find X3, One Plus 9, Samsung Galaxy S21, etc. As per the latest report, it is revealed that Qualcomm will launch the Snapdragon 888 Plus in the second half of next year, and the Snapdragon 888 GPU will lock up to 840MHz. This upcoming chipset will have some upgrades over the current Snapdragon 888 SoC.
In early December, Qualcomm has officially released the Snapdragon 888 processor chip. The Snapdragon 888 SoC will become the core support for flagship Android phones in 2021. Several OEMs have confirmed that they will be in the first quarter of 2021. Launched mobile phones equipped with Snapdragon 888.
Snapdragon 888 uses 1 x 2.84GHz (ARM’s latest Cortex X1 core)+3 x 2.4GHz (Cortex A78)+4 x 1.8GHz (Cortex A55), Adreno 660 GPU, X60 5G modem baseband, Support WiFi 6E, Bluetooth 5.2.
Weibo blogger @DigitalChatStation reported that Snapdragon 888+ is currently tentatively available, and because it is planned to be released in the second half of 2021, Qualcomm has written the highest frequency of Snapdragon 888 to 840MHz to prevent manufacturers from secretly overclocking.
It is revealed that Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus will be released in the second half of next year, and the Snapdragon 888 GPU will lock up to 840MHz
The frequency lock here refers to the GPU frequency. For example, the Xiaomi Mi 11 parameter page shows that Snapdragon 888 uses Adreno 660 graphics processor with a maximum frequency of 840MHz.
It is revealed that Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus will be released in the second half of next year, and the Snapdragon 888 GPU will lock up to 840MHz
As the latest product of Snapdragon 8 series, Snapdragon 888 integrates Qualcomm’s third-generation 5G modem and radiofrequency system-Snapdragon X60, which supports all major global millimeter wave and Sub-6GHz frequency bands, as well as 5G carrier aggregation, global multi-SIM card functions, Independent (SA) and non-independent (NSA) networking modes and dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS).
The sixth-generation Qualcomm AI engine integrated on the Snapdragon 888 5G mobile platform includes a newly designed Qualcomm Hexagon processor, with a performance of 26 trillion operations per second (26 TOPS). In terms of games, the third-generation Snapdragon Elite Gaming is integrated, and Qualcomm claims that it has brought the most significant performance improvement ever made by Qualcomm Adreno GPU.
In terms of camera performance, the Spectra ISP of Snapdragon 888 supports faster billion-pixel-level processing speeds. Users can process 2.7 billion pixels per second to take photos and videos, that is, 120 frames per second, and each frame is 12 million Pixel, the processing speed is up to 35% higher than the previous generation platform.
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