Qualcomm has Made Significant Improvements with the Snapdragon 888 Chipset

Qualcomm has made a significant improvement with their latest chipset, the Snapdragon 888. The company claims that they have improved the AI operations and shade memory required for these AI operations by a factor of 16, which is a huge leap. This means that AI operations will be faster and more efficient.

The new Adreno 660 GPU is also a major improvement, with Qualcomm claiming that it is about 35% faster than its predecessor. The company states that this is a significant sleep for the GPU, but in general, we see around a 15-20 percent performance increase with each new generation. However, this time, Qualcomm claims that the improvement is much more substantial.

The GPU has also become 20% more power-efficient, which is another welcome development. This means that smartphones will be able to run demanding games and applications without overheating or draining their batteries too quickly.

One of the key features of the Snapdragon 888 chipset is its improved ISP (Image Signal Processor). The company claims that this is the first triple-ISP implementation in the world, allowing smartphones to capture data from multiple cameras simultaneously. This means that users will be able to take higher-quality photos and videos with more advanced camera capabilities.

Qualcomm also claims that the new ISP improves performance in low-light conditions, which is a major area of focus for smartphone camera manufacturers. With this new chipset, we can expect significant improvements in camera performance, especially in low light.

The Snapdragon 888 chipset is based on the Cortex X1 chip, which features a prime core and an ARM Cortex-A78 core. This means that the chipset will be very powerful and efficient, with improved performance for demanding applications like gaming.

The chipset was manufactured using the Samsung fabrication's five-nanometer process node, which is more energy-efficient than its predecessor's seven-nanometer process. This means that smartphones equipped with the Snapdragon 888 chipset should see significant improvements in battery life.

Qualcomm has also announced that they will support LPDDR5 memory on this new chipset, which is a major step forward for smartphone performance. The company claims that OEMs who bundle LPDDR5 memory should see significant improvements in performance and power efficiency.

The Snapdragon 888 chipset is set to become the first implementation of the Cortex X1 chip, featuring a prime core that Qualcomm says will be very powerful. We can expect general improvements in AI performance due to the enhanced AI capabilities on this chipset.

Qualcomm has moved to fine nanometer manufacturing for the Snapdragon 888 chipset, and it's using the Samsung fabrication's five-nanometer node. This is a significant improvement over its predecessor's seven-nanometer process.

The company also mentions that the new GPU supports LPDDR5 memory and has improved performance compared to the Adreno 650 GPU.

The Snapdragon 888 chipset will be integrated with various smartphone vendors, including Samsung, Vivo, Oppo, and others. These companies are known for their focus on camera capabilities, and we can expect significant improvements in camera performance due to the new triple-ISP implementation.

Qualcomm claims that smartphones equipped with the Snapdragon 888 chipset should be able to handle high-end gaming at the highest graphics settings without any issues. The company also mentions that we will see a lot of improvements in camera performance, especially in low light conditions.

However, it's worth noting that there are no official benchmarks available yet for the Snapdragon 888 chipset. We'll have to wait until early 2021 to see how these smartphones perform in real-world scenarios.

Overall, the Snapdragon 888 chipset represents a significant leap forward for smartphone performance and capabilities. With its improved AI, camera, and gaming capabilities, this new chipset is set to become the benchmark for flagship Android smartphones.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi guys this is ranjit and in this video let's talk about the new snapdragon 888 soc that was just announced and if you recall guys the current flagship soc that we use on android phones by qualcomm is the snapdragon 865 so next the logical move should have been 875 but uh qualcomm has named this one as the snapdragon 888 not even 875 or 885 but 888 and i think so they did this to showcase that they have improved this chipset quite a bit and the big highlights is that it's still an eight core processor uh but again it's using the new arm cortex x1 chip as the prime chip again it has some major improvements in the new uh dsp it has also the gpu that's the adreno 660 gpu is supposed to be almost about 35 percent faster that's a big percentage leap i would say and also the isp this is the first isp that's a triple isp we have seen a dual uh isp that's the immediate signal processor but this one has the world's first triple isp so let's break it down the various components of this chip and let's have a closer look because of course we will be finding the the snapdragon 88 with the new flagship android smartphones that will be coming in 2021 so let's look at it and as you can see this first image this gives you an idea about the chip itself and if you notice this red color uh we have this new arm cortex x1 chip and if you compare it with the older snapdragon 865 there also actually we had one a higher clocked chip that was known as the prime core here this is the prime code but this is a very different this is the first time actually we are seeing an arm cortex x1 chip by qualcomm and if you notice uh this is clock that is slightly higher compared to the other core that's it's clocked at 2.84 gigahertz but we were expecting about three gigahertz it's still at 2.84 but the big improvement is that and if you notice here the cache is actually a massive one megabyte l2 cache and if you compare this with the snapdragon 865 ah there the prime core if i remember had just 512 kilobits of case the case has doubled and you might say what is this this is actually important uh with processors the data has to move a lot faster otherwise the processor will sit idle hence by doubling the cache i think so they are able to migrate this so hopefully in heavy applications it will be a lot faster and in fact if you look at the other course uh first let me broadly divide it's actually a octa core that's eight chord chip again divided into various uh we have four high performance code the first one is that prime core as i've already mentioned that's based on the codex x1 then we also have three powerful cores they're not plot as high as the prime core they're clocked at 2.4 gigahertz and this is based on the new arm context a 78 and again the case is here also doubled guys it's 512 kilobytes of l2 cache uh with earlier snapdragon 865 if i recall it was just 256 here so here also the case has doubled so uh you should see a huge improvements and also going to the architecture this is based on the new arm cortex a78 if you recall the snapdragon 865 was arm cortex a77 so here uh we should see an improvement about 15 to 20 percent on this one uh moving to the low performance core that are energy efficient cores we are still having the arm cortex a55 here we don't see an improvement in fact last couple of generations uh qualcomm has been doing the same thing so the arm cortex a55 is the same now moving to another big deal is that if you recall the snapdragon 865 did not have an integrated boredom and these vendors had to actually purchase it separately uh that is the x55 this is not the case with earlier qualcomm chips and that's the reason one of the reasons that many vendors said that the snapdragon 865 chip is a lot more expensive now our qualcomm is back putting the what do you say modem within this chip itself and they have gone with the new x 60 modem this is the third generation of their 5g modem and has improvements like new carrier aggregation and if you look at this image as you can see uh they say that as it's now a part of the soc itself it will consume a lot less power if you recall uh obviously we don't have millimeter wave here in india but many western youtubers used to complain that on 5g specifically on millimeter wave the battery life of these smartphones was just not that good qualcomm says that now with this x60 chip with the snapdragon 888 even for the millimeter wave uh the battery life hit won't be that much and in fact uh it also has improvements to the sub six gigahertz 5g band this is actually very important because across the world uh most uh uh what do you say 5g vendors are opting for the sub six gigahertz and they have uh what do you say uh carrier aggregation and mix match of tdd and fdd with the six gigahertz pad so again a huge improvement for 5g implementation and now as this is a part of the soc i am hoping that the overall power consumption should be a lot better for the x60 modem uh now another thing is that uh with this x60 they have also improved the wi-fi yes we have wi-fi six even on the snapdragon 865 but guys if you don't recall it does not support the uh next generation wi-fi 6e that is wi-fi 6e enhanced that's going to come out in 2021 and this actually supports the wi-fi 6e and they claim speeds up to about 3.6 gigabits uh we will be seeing a lot of what do you say new devices in 2021 with wi-fi six this uh this is enhanced wi-fi six i'm also waiting so this chipset does support that and now let's move to the uh what do you say uh dsp that's the new hexagon 780 dsp on this one and as you can see from the image here also qualcomm says that they did huge improvements and in terms of for trillions of operations since it's calculated by that they claim that the snapdragon 855 did about 15 uh trillion operations per second whereas this 888 will be capable of doing about 36 so significantly improved i would say and because of this they said that they have made huge improvements in ai operations they claim about 43 percent faster in ai operations and these days it's becoming a lot important all this ai operations are new cameras uses it a lot of other features actually use that so it will accelerate a lot of things and in fact in terms of ai that is the tensorflow and all those things they are saying that you can get about 2x to speed and one important thing is that they say that this new hexagon that is the dsp is more power efficient it's almost three times more power efficient compared to the older counterparts and this is a huge for a mobile phone and they say that it's about 3x what do you say uh more efficient per watt so hopefully this should help get us more battery life for the same operations and in fact for the shade memory that is required for these ai operations they say that they have improved it 16 times that's huge so ai operation tensorflow and all those things uh ai computing and all those things that are happening a lot on these smartphones will be a lot faster and now we are getting the new adreno 660 gpu and qualcomm claims that this is about 35 faster this is a huge sleep guys but generally uh with every generation we see a performance sleep of anywhere about 15 to 20 percent but here they are telling about 35 improvement uh for the gpu at the same time it is 20 more power efficient so again i feel in terms of the uh what do you say gpu a qualcomm has done a great job and this also supports lp ddr5 this is not new even the older 865 did support lpddr5 not a lot of vendors used it most of them use the dd lpddr4 but if i remember rog phone 3 use the lpddr5 but here the lpddr5 can go up to 3200 megahertz and qualcomm say that if oem actually bundles lpddr5 they should see significant improvements so let's see what we get and now let's also move to the isp that's image signaling processor and we have the spectra 580 isp with this one and this is actually we have seen dual isps but this is the first triple isp that we are seeing and qualcomm says this is the first in the world and they say that uh the chipset is capable of using all the three isp at the same time so what can we do let's say if your smartphone has three cameras let's say a regular one wide angle and zoom uh technically speaking uh when you click a picture it can shoot capture all the data from all the three cameras simultaneously and they also say it can shoot 4k videos simultaneously from three different cameras so this opens up a lot of what do you say opportunities it'll be interesting to see how these smartphone vendors take advantage of this triple isp and yes it should also help in regular photography and qualcomm specifically says that this new 580 isp also improves the performance in low light so uh hopefully uh what do you say camera performance in low light will improve with this new isp uh so to sum it up i would say qualcomm has made a lot of improvements in various parts of the soc it's not like they just did the work on one part that's why i think so they're calling it the snapdragon 888 instead of the snapdragon 875 and i would say uh if we need to summarize this this is the first implementation of the cortex x1 chip that is the prime core that they're using it'll be interesting to see how it performs because it's supposed to be a very powerful uh chip and the combination with this arm context a 78 also as they have now moved to five nanometer process it should be a lot more efficient if you recall the snapdragon 865 was based on seven nanometer process from ts cm now actually they have moved to fine nanometer and this is with the samsung fabrication samsung is actually manufacturing it on the five nanometer node also uh we should see general improvements because of the enhanced ai as they have told it has improved drastically and i am also curious to see what these various smartphone vendors will do with the camera because now they have the option of that triple uh isp for example i think so some vendors uh will play around with that samsung does that single take so they can do a lot more things i'm also curious to see what vivo and oppo will do because those uh vendors actually do concentrate a lot on camera so we'll be seeing a lot of improvements in the camera area with this one and uh i would say in gp performance as we said you should see about 35 improvement so again high-end gaming at the highest graphics setting should not be a issue so overall yes it's an improvement uh we didn't don't have any benchmarks and stuff but i think so by early 2021 we should be saying flagship android smartphones with the snapdragon 888 chipset it'll be interesting to see how much of a battery savings do we get uh that is a question that we'll know only when we get hands-on with this new smartphones that are coming with this one but what do you guys think about the snapdragon 88 chipset do let me know in the comment section uh below and guys if you have any questions let me know uh i'll try to answer it also do follow me on twitter because these days i'm spending a lot of time on twitter that's at the rate kikiranji anyways guys that's it for now thanks for watching this is ranjit and i hope to see you in my next video take care guyshi guys this is ranjit and in this video let's talk about the new snapdragon 888 soc that was just announced and if you recall guys the current flagship soc that we use on android phones by qualcomm is the snapdragon 865 so next the logical move should have been 875 but uh qualcomm has named this one as the snapdragon 888 not even 875 or 885 but 888 and i think so they did this to showcase that they have improved this chipset quite a bit and the big highlights is that it's still an eight core processor uh but again it's using the new arm cortex x1 chip as the prime chip again it has some major improvements in the new uh dsp it has also the gpu that's the adreno 660 gpu is supposed to be almost about 35 percent faster that's a big percentage leap i would say and also the isp this is the first isp that's a triple isp we have seen a dual uh isp that's the immediate signal processor but this one has the world's first triple isp so let's break it down the various components of this chip and let's have a closer look because of course we will be finding the the snapdragon 88 with the new flagship android smartphones that will be coming in 2021 so let's look at it and as you can see this first image this gives you an idea about the chip itself and if you notice this red color uh we have this new arm cortex x1 chip and if you compare it with the older snapdragon 865 there also actually we had one a higher clocked chip that was known as the prime core here this is the prime code but this is a very different this is the first time actually we are seeing an arm cortex x1 chip by qualcomm and if you notice uh this is clock that is slightly higher compared to the other core that's it's clocked at 2.84 gigahertz but we were expecting about three gigahertz it's still at 2.84 but the big improvement is that and if you notice here the cache is actually a massive one megabyte l2 cache and if you compare this with the snapdragon 865 ah there the prime core if i remember had just 512 kilobits of case the case has doubled and you might say what is this this is actually important uh with processors the data has to move a lot faster otherwise the processor will sit idle hence by doubling the cache i think so they are able to migrate this so hopefully in heavy applications it will be a lot faster and in fact if you look at the other course uh first let me broadly divide it's actually a octa core that's eight chord chip again divided into various uh we have four high performance code the first one is that prime core as i've already mentioned that's based on the codex x1 then we also have three powerful cores they're not plot as high as the prime core they're clocked at 2.4 gigahertz and this is based on the new arm context a 78 and again the case is here also doubled guys it's 512 kilobytes of l2 cache uh with earlier snapdragon 865 if i recall it was just 256 here so here also the case has doubled so uh you should see a huge improvements and also going to the architecture this is based on the new arm cortex a78 if you recall the snapdragon 865 was arm cortex a77 so here uh we should see an improvement about 15 to 20 percent on this one uh moving to the low performance core that are energy efficient cores we are still having the arm cortex a55 here we don't see an improvement in fact last couple of generations uh qualcomm has been doing the same thing so the arm cortex a55 is the same now moving to another big deal is that if you recall the snapdragon 865 did not have an integrated boredom and these vendors had to actually purchase it separately uh that is the x55 this is not the case with earlier qualcomm chips and that's the reason one of the reasons that many vendors said that the snapdragon 865 chip is a lot more expensive now our qualcomm is back putting the what do you say modem within this chip itself and they have gone with the new x 60 modem this is the third generation of their 5g modem and has improvements like new carrier aggregation and if you look at this image as you can see uh they say that as it's now a part of the soc itself it will consume a lot less power if you recall uh obviously we don't have millimeter wave here in india but many western youtubers used to complain that on 5g specifically on millimeter wave the battery life of these smartphones was just not that good qualcomm says that now with this x60 chip with the snapdragon 888 even for the millimeter wave uh the battery life hit won't be that much and in fact uh it also has improvements to the sub six gigahertz 5g band this is actually very important because across the world uh most uh uh what do you say 5g vendors are opting for the sub six gigahertz and they have uh what do you say uh carrier aggregation and mix match of tdd and fdd with the six gigahertz pad so again a huge improvement for 5g implementation and now as this is a part of the soc i am hoping that the overall power consumption should be a lot better for the x60 modem uh now another thing is that uh with this x60 they have also improved the wi-fi yes we have wi-fi six even on the snapdragon 865 but guys if you don't recall it does not support the uh next generation wi-fi 6e that is wi-fi 6e enhanced that's going to come out in 2021 and this actually supports the wi-fi 6e and they claim speeds up to about 3.6 gigabits uh we will be seeing a lot of what do you say new devices in 2021 with wi-fi six this uh this is enhanced wi-fi six i'm also waiting so this chipset does support that and now let's move to the uh what do you say uh dsp that's the new hexagon 780 dsp on this one and as you can see from the image here also qualcomm says that they did huge improvements and in terms of for trillions of operations since it's calculated by that they claim that the snapdragon 855 did about 15 uh trillion operations per second whereas this 888 will be capable of doing about 36 so significantly improved i would say and because of this they said that they have made huge improvements in ai operations they claim about 43 percent faster in ai operations and these days it's becoming a lot important all this ai operations are new cameras uses it a lot of other features actually use that so it will accelerate a lot of things and in fact in terms of ai that is the tensorflow and all those things they are saying that you can get about 2x to speed and one important thing is that they say that this new hexagon that is the dsp is more power efficient it's almost three times more power efficient compared to the older counterparts and this is a huge for a mobile phone and they say that it's about 3x what do you say uh more efficient per watt so hopefully this should help get us more battery life for the same operations and in fact for the shade memory that is required for these ai operations they say that they have improved it 16 times that's huge so ai operation tensorflow and all those things uh ai computing and all those things that are happening a lot on these smartphones will be a lot faster and now we are getting the new adreno 660 gpu and qualcomm claims that this is about 35 faster this is a huge sleep guys but generally uh with every generation we see a performance sleep of anywhere about 15 to 20 percent but here they are telling about 35 improvement uh for the gpu at the same time it is 20 more power efficient so again i feel in terms of the uh what do you say gpu a qualcomm has done a great job and this also supports lp ddr5 this is not new even the older 865 did support lpddr5 not a lot of vendors used it most of them use the dd lpddr4 but if i remember rog phone 3 use the lpddr5 but here the lpddr5 can go up to 3200 megahertz and qualcomm say that if oem actually bundles lpddr5 they should see significant improvements so let's see what we get and now let's also move to the isp that's image signaling processor and we have the spectra 580 isp with this one and this is actually we have seen dual isps but this is the first triple isp that we are seeing and qualcomm says this is the first in the world and they say that uh the chipset is capable of using all the three isp at the same time so what can we do let's say if your smartphone has three cameras let's say a regular one wide angle and zoom uh technically speaking uh when you click a picture it can shoot capture all the data from all the three cameras simultaneously and they also say it can shoot 4k videos simultaneously from three different cameras so this opens up a lot of what do you say opportunities it'll be interesting to see how these smartphone vendors take advantage of this triple isp and yes it should also help in regular photography and qualcomm specifically says that this new 580 isp also improves the performance in low light so uh hopefully uh what do you say camera performance in low light will improve with this new isp uh so to sum it up i would say qualcomm has made a lot of improvements in various parts of the soc it's not like they just did the work on one part that's why i think so they're calling it the snapdragon 888 instead of the snapdragon 875 and i would say uh if we need to summarize this this is the first implementation of the cortex x1 chip that is the prime core that they're using it'll be interesting to see how it performs because it's supposed to be a very powerful uh chip and the combination with this arm context a 78 also as they have now moved to five nanometer process it should be a lot more efficient if you recall the snapdragon 865 was based on seven nanometer process from ts cm now actually they have moved to fine nanometer and this is with the samsung fabrication samsung is actually manufacturing it on the five nanometer node also uh we should see general improvements because of the enhanced ai as they have told it has improved drastically and i am also curious to see what these various smartphone vendors will do with the camera because now they have the option of that triple uh isp for example i think so some vendors uh will play around with that samsung does that single take so they can do a lot more things i'm also curious to see what vivo and oppo will do because those uh vendors actually do concentrate a lot on camera so we'll be seeing a lot of improvements in the camera area with this one and uh i would say in gp performance as we said you should see about 35 improvement so again high-end gaming at the highest graphics setting should not be a issue so overall yes it's an improvement uh we didn't don't have any benchmarks and stuff but i think so by early 2021 we should be saying flagship android smartphones with the snapdragon 888 chipset it'll be interesting to see how much of a battery savings do we get uh that is a question that we'll know only when we get hands-on with this new smartphones that are coming with this one but what do you guys think about the snapdragon 88 chipset do let me know in the comment section uh below and guys if you have any questions let me know uh i'll try to answer it also do follow me on twitter because these days i'm spending a lot of time on twitter that's at the rate kikiranji anyways guys that's it for now thanks for watching this is ranjit and i hope to see you in my next video take care guys\n"