Not just the ultimate performance. Snapdragon also offers these buff rewards for mobile phones.

This year, the flagship products of Android manufacturers are no longer satisfied with the competition of hardware configuration and photography, but have opened up more dimensional product function upgrades. With the development of games, audio, AI application experience and security, Android flagship has also brought users a more comprehensive experience, such as Xiaomi's CyberFocus, HyperBoost full-link game frame stabilization technology, realme full-speed antenna matrix system, and glory dual TEE security system.

Various manufacturers have further expanded the product functional experience. On the one hand, Android products that focus on material configuration gradually subdivide the demand positioning, and through the expansion and polishing of various functions, the product experience is more perfect. On the other hand, thanks to a series of technical support brought by the new Snapdragon mobile platform, the current Android flagship has enough room to play at different function points, bringing excellent experience and expanding the diversified attributes of the Android market.

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The Snapdragon mobile platform we are talking about is actually more than just a processor. For Snapdragon 8, the processor is only a small part of this platform, and Snapdragon is a complete platform with more than 50 chipsets. In addition to the familiar CPU, other modules include important GPU, modem, NPU, ISP, audio, security and so on, and each part has leading technology.

In addition to providing performance guarantee for the current Android flagship, Snapdragon Mobile Platform also has complete solutions covering video, games, audio, wireless connection, AI application and security, which is why Android manufacturers trust and choose Snapdragon as the high-end platform.

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First of all, let me introduce the ——GPU, which is the biggest upgrade of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform this year. GPU directly affects the graphics processing performance of the whole machine and plays an important role in the game scene. Different from other chips, Qualcomm's GPU is not directly based on ARM's public architecture, but a self-developed Adreno GPU, so it has high customization ability in game performance.

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In addition to GPU performance support, Qualcomm also provided a series of technologies and optimization schemes for Snapdragon Elite E-sports Game Technology Suite, which upgraded the game experience from the software and hardware level, optimized mobile games and brought excellent game experience to mobile phones.

As early as the previous generations of Snapdragon 8 series mobile platforms, Qualcomm provided a new generation of graphics drivers and better physical rendering technology through Snapdragon Elite Games, and brought the real 10-bit HDR and 144Hz high-brush game experience to the mobile terminal for the first time. Let the higher refresh and smoother game experience be further popularized, and also bring better picture color performance.

With the release of the new generation Snapdragon 8 mobile platform at the end of last year, the elite games in Snapdragon have been further upgraded. Among the new functions added by the new generation Snapdragon 8 mobile platform, the end-game stereoscopic rendering technology pioneered by the mobile terminal at present is included. This technology is applied in the game to create realistic picture effects. Through rendering, smoke can spread and flow in the environment, thus making the game screen more realistic.

The VRS variable resolution rendering technology pioneered by Qualcomm on the mobile side has also been upgraded to an advanced version of VRS Pro variable resolution rendering. VRS Pro allows game developers to allocate graphics resources more finely according to different game scenes, reduce the workload of GPU, and save the power consumption of the whole machine while ensuring the image quality.

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The fourth generation of Snapdragon Elite Games also introduced Adreno image motion engine for the first time. By using game historical frame data and GPU to optimize motion estimation, high-quality and high-frame-rate game pictures can be realized, which brings better power control.

After years of updating and iteration, Snapdragon Elite Game has become the most complete game solution in the whole industry. There are many products focusing on mobile games on the market now, all of which use the configuration of Qualcomm's flagship mobile platform. With the numerous functions and more free setting options brought by Snapdragon's elite games, some hardcore players can better adjust their games and keep a perfect balance between excellent screen experience and power consumption. At the same time, better performance screen support can also enable game manufacturers to further upgrade the image quality of their own games. More and more mobile game users can have the opportunity to play more well-made mobile games on their mobile phones without increasing the power consumption of the whole machine.

In addition to Qualcomm's continuous efforts in game experience, major mobile phone manufacturers have also provided their own mobile phone performance optimization schemes in terms of games and performance. For example, the Red Devils, as a top professional gaming mobile phone, launched a performance enhancement system for the Red Devils Arc based on Snapdragon 8 mobile platform, including the fast reading and writing technology of MAGIC WRITE, the memory acceleration technology of RAM BOOST and the image enhancement technology of MAGIC GPU.

Redmi also improved the algorithm, but the graphics performance was also optimized for game assistance. The iTurbo algorithm of K50 e-sports version can improve the file copying performance by 300% and the ROM random reading and writing performance by 20%, allowing users to experience top graphics and improve the overall game experience.

Through the optimization of Snapdragon elite games and the improvement of hardware reading and writing ability, most game phones on the market can achieve more stable output of game pictures with high frame rate, so that game phones can really play a role.

In recent two years, photography has become a new growth point of mobile phone business of major manufacturers. The application of large pixel sensor and various shooting stabilization technologies makes the shooting experience even better. Facing the rapidly upgrading image system, Snapdragon has greatly improved its image support. The color depth of 18bit brings richer color expression, and the dynamic image processing ability is greatly improved. In addition, the "super multi-frame synthesis" technology allows users to shoot night scenes with excellent colors and higher definition even in extremely dark environments.

The new generation Snapdragon 8 mobile platform provides the world's first commercial three 18-bit ISP for mobile devices, which can capture 4,000 times more image data than the previous generation at the speed of 3.2 billion pixels per second. Thanks to the huge improvement of ISP's computing performance, the mobile phone equipped with Snapdragon 8 mobile platform in the market can actually take 200 million pixel photos or 8K HDR videos.

In addition to more powerful data processing capabilities, the ISP of the new generation Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 mobile platform has also brought more functions to mobile phones. Including triple concurrent shooting, it supports the three cameras of the mobile phone to work together when taking pictures or recording, and then obtains a smooth picture through algorithm optimization to avoid picture jumping and white balance drift caused by lens switching; Super multi-frame synthesis, a photo can be synthesized by taking 30 photos continuously through a mobile phone, and even in extremely dark environment, it can still have more details and purity; Video background blur engine can add soft background to video in real time, just like opening portrait mode and previewing blur effect in real time when shooting video.

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Thanks to the many functions provided by Xiaolong imaging technology, Xiaomi 12 Pro, OPPO Find X5 Pro and other flagships can be further upgraded in terms of images, bringing users a better image experience. Among them, the recently released OPPO Find X5 Pro, with the cooperation of the brand-new Snapdragon 8 and Mariana X chips, gives users more powerful night shooting ability, allowing users to take ultra-clear night photos with high definition and almost no noise, and its powerful computing power can also realize 4K video recording in dark environment. With the addition of new Snapdragon 8' s powerful computational photography capability, the current image flagship has gradually become a more professional hand-held photographic equipment.

OPPO Find X5 Pro night scene shooting sample

Nowadays, users pay more and more attention to the entertainment attribute of smart phones, which is not only the quality experience of games, but also the experience of video and audio-visual parts has gradually become one of the important factors for users to consider when purchasing. In order to create a seamless immersive audio experience between mobile phones, headphones and other terminal devices, Qualcomm also brought the Snapdragon listening technology of Snapdragon Voice to the Snapdragon mobile platform.

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Snapdragon Voice Snapdragon Listening supports Qualcomm's latest aptX adaptive audio coding technology, which can automatically adjust the transmission focus of Bluetooth audio according to different usage scenarios. For example, listening to songs with Bluetooth headphones will ensure the sound quality and provide CD-level lossless sound quality for wireless headphones; When the user switches to the game scene or watches the video, the earphone will automatically adjust to the low delay mode to ensure that the sound and picture can be synchronized in real time. In the case of voice call with others, aptX Adaptive can also provide ultra-wideband voice up to 32kHz to ensure the call quality.

Undoubtedly, compared with those audio coding technologies that use fixed bit rate, aptX Adaptive, which can dynamically adjust the bit rate, can meet the requirements of providing stability, top quality and low delay in different usage scenarios. Through Qualcomm's efforts in the audio part, the experience of the entertainment audio part will be greatly improved.

The new Snapdragon 8 mobile platform has strong support in network connection, which is the most familiar and easily overlooked. Qualcomm has always been a leader in communications. Not only Android products, but also Apple's iPhone has chosen to use Qualcomm's base strap to enhance the whole machine's 5G experience. In order to polish the mobile network function experience to the extreme, the new generation Snapdragon 8 mobile platform adopts Snapdragon X65 modem and RF system. It not only supports the most comprehensive 5G frequency band, but also integrates the support of 2G-5G multimode network downwards, supports the latest 3GPR16 standard, and enhances the functions of 5G, allowing it to further enter all walks of life and spawn a new digital ecological industry.

Snapdragon 8 integrates Snapdragon X65 modem and RF system, which is the world's first 5G modem with downlink peak exceeding 10Gbps. When we entered the 5G era, in order to ensure the stability and strength of user signals, Snapdragon 8 also integrated AI with 5G baseband, bringing AI antenna tuning technology, which greatly improved the stability of user signal connection in different handheld modes.

In addition to the above, Snapdragon Mobile Platform actually has corresponding solutions in AI application experience and security. Snapdragon 8 mobile platform is equipped with the 7th generation Qualcomm AI engine, which is the strongest and fastest AI engine built by Qualcomm so far. Based on this engine, manufacturers have further enhanced video shooting in their own flagships, such as Xiaomi CyberFocus technology and OPPO Find X5 Pro's AI color master.

At the same time, Snapdragon 8 mobile platform is the first mobile platform in the world that conforms to the Android Ready SE standard, which is suitable for digital car keys, digital driver's licenses and so on, and has reached a very high security level. Recently, Glory launched a dual TEE security system independent of Android operating system at the Magic 4 series new product launch conference, which is the first time that Snapdragon mobile platform supports a dedicated trust management engine and dual TEE on the mobile side.

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Through the above introduction, I believe you have a further understanding of the functions of Snapdragon Mobile Platform. It is precisely because of Qualcomm's continuous integration of these functions that the current Android flagship has stronger performance, and also provides faster network connection, better photos, stronger games, audio experience and safer privacy data protection. Various manufacturers have also strengthened and optimized different functions, bringing users smart phone products with more functions and more comprehensive experience.