— Ice universe (@UniverseIce) May 24, 2022 According to recent rumors, the upcoming Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is going to be very energy efficient, even better than the recently released Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1. Now, according to a new rumor from tipster Yogesh Brar, the Gen 2 chip will feature a 20 percent performance boost over the 8+ Gen 1 chip. Moreover, according to the tipster the efficiency figures of the upcoming chip will be in the same ballpark as the 8+ Gen 1 chip, given both of them are manufactured on TSMC’s 4nm node.
Although the chip runs cool, watching thermals closely (hopefully no goof ups this time) Overall 8 Gen 2 is a really solid chip — Yogesh Brar (@heyitsyogesh) October 27, 2022 Previous leaks have also reported on the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 core configuration, likely featuring the following setup.
1x Cortex-X3 core running at 3.20GHz2x Cortex-A715 cores running at 2.80GHz2x Cortex-A710 cores running at 2.80GHz3x Cortex-A510 running at 2.00GHz
This deviates slightly from Qualcomm’s usual 1+3+4 tri-cluster CPU arrangement used for the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip. Instead of having two big Cortex-A710 cores, and four energy-efficient Cortex-A510 cores, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip opts for four big cortex cores (2x A715 + 2x A710), and three energy efficient cores. Obviously, the new Cortex-X3 core, built on a new ARM architecture also helps in achieving the improved performance figures. We also got a glimpse of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2’s performance in a previous Geekbench leak, featuring the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S23. Although, the chip’s official reveal is just around the corner, with Qualcomm kicking off its Snapdragon Summit from 15th November. – Galaxy S23 Debuts in Geekbench, Appuals
