Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 5G Mobile Chipset Will Power Flagship Smartphones Of 2021

Qualcomm has announced its new flagship processor in the form of the Snapdragon 888 5G Mobile Platform. The technology giant claims that the new Snapdragon 888 uses the most advanced 5nm process technology and will “transform” premium mobile devices coming in early 2021.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 5G Mobile Chipset

As per?Qualcomm, Snapdragon 888 comes with innovations in 5G, artificial intelligence (AI), gaming, and camera technologies enabled through major architectural advances. The company promises breakthrough performance and efficiency through the new chipset.

Much of this is through Qualcomm Kryo 680 used in the chip, that promises to generate “up to a 25% uplift in overall CPU performance” as compared to the previous generation of?Snapdragon 800 series. Allowing top frequencies of up to 2.84GHz, it is the first commercial CPU subsystem to be based on the Arm Cortex-X1.

Qualcomm mentions a similar breakthrough advancement in the Qualcomm Adreno 660 GPU used in Snapdragon 888. Claiming it to be “its biggest performance leap yet,” the new GPU is able to deliver up to 35% faster graphics rendering compared to the previous generation. The Adreno 660 GPU comes with a larger thermal envelope or sustained use cases in flagship devices, making it flexible enough for a range of top devices.

Snapdragon 888 also employs the 6th generation Qualcomm AI Engine along with the new Qualcomm Hexagon 780 processor, delivering a combined 26 TOPS. This marks a 73% increase vs previous generation, leading to an industry-leading AI inferencing performance while improving power efficiency up to three times versus previous generation.

The industry-leading numbers attained by the Snapdragon 888 on various benchmarks can be seen in the image below.

Qualcomm Unveils Snapdragon 888 5G Mobile Chipset, Its Most Powerful Yet For Flagship Smartphones

Due to the pandemic, Qualcomm was not able to provide hands on access to the latest premium tier Snapdragon reference design to third party device reviewers. Therefore, it has collated the results across select industry benchmarks testing system, CPU, GPU and AI use cases.

Qualcomm expects the commercial devices based on Snapdragon 888 to be available in Q1 2021.