Is the fever of Snapdragon 888 serious?

The fever of Snapdragon 888 is indeed serious.

On December 1, 2020, at the Snapdragon Technology Summit held in Hawaii, Qualcomm announced the launch of the latest generation of flagship SoC-Qualcomm Snapdragon 8885G mobile platform and Snapdragon X605G baseband. This is the For the first time, the company has integrated a 5G modem into its 8-series processors.

Qualcomm previewed the new photography features that Snapdragon 888 will enable, including the ability for users to take photos at 2.7 billion pixels per second thanks to an updated ISP that supports faster gigapixel processing speeds And video, which captures 120 frames per second and each frame is 12 million pixels, Qualcomm said it is 35% faster than the previous generation in image processing.

Snapdragon 888 specifications:

Snapdragon 888 is based on Samsung's 5nm process, and the CPU uses 1x2.84GHz (ARM's latest Cortex X1 core) + 3x2.4GHz (Cortex A78) +4x1.8GHz (Cortex A55), GPU is Adreno660, uses X605G modem baseband, supports WiFi6E, Bluetooth5.2.

CPU: 888 is the first chip to officially adopt the Cortex-X1 core (the ARM basic design has some adjustments from Qualcomm). Compared with the A78, the X1 can execute 33% more instructions per clock, has doubled the SIMD hardware, and doubled the capacity of the L1 and L2 caches. The Cortex-X1 core runs at 2.84GHz.

Reference for the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Snapdragon 888