Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 - All The Launch Details

Qualcomm has announced its latest premium mobile processor, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, not the Snapdragon 898 as some anticipated. It features an Armv9 Cortex-X2 CPU core, three Cortex-A710 cores, and four Cortex-A510 cores. As well as a new 18-bit ISP with 8K HDR video recording, and a dedicated 4K video bokeh engine. Plus lots more.




#garyexplains

[makisekurisu]

It's about time the A55 got updated!

[RealLifeTech]

They completely forgot AV1 support and I can't understand why with big services (YT, Netflix, Meta jk Facebook) switching to the new codec. LPDDR5X and USB4 support didn't make it either sadly. Hope Gen 2 has all of these. But Qualcomm provided a huge upgrade nonetheless even though I'm skeptical how useful 18-bit RAW support is when sensors top out at 12-bit or always-on camera if phone makers don't implement it 🤷‍♂️

[societyglitch]

For me new naming scheme is pretty good.
Entry level - Snapdragon 4
Mid range - Snapdragon 6
Upper mid range - Snapdragon 7
High end - Snapdragon 8

Snapdragon 8 1st gen/2nd gen/3rd etc.

Only 4 variety of chips per year. It is good strategy in this time that silicon crisis is happening

[wisdomtth]

All this and just four years of software support. Damn Qualcomm

[felipe]

It'd be interesting to see comparison against M1/A-series

[androidios]

I'd like to see thunderbolt support (USB4).

[cortez]

this will heat up just like 888/888+ thats using Samsung 4nm

mediatek will get upperhand because its using TSMC 4nm

[farishanafiah]

I just checked the spec of this brand-new chipset and I found something totally interesting: "Max External Display: Up to 4K @ 60 Hz". Finally, about time! I really cannot wait to see how future Samsung DeX and Motorola Ready For smartphones will perform with this brand new chipset while using 4K monitor.

[rndompersn]

People moan about Intels naming scheme, because it uses a lot of numbers but its far better than Qualcomm who have easily the worst naming convention. Just pick a number scheme and stick to it.

[jerrycmattathil]

Bro D9000 just crushed SD this time as Garry shaoed early in animation...
LPDDR5X
RAY-tracing support
3.05 ghz cpu
Bluetooth 5.3
Av1codec
9gigapixel

[danish]

Some people now own 75 inch plus 8k TVs . It would be interesting to know how well will the 8k 30 fps video play or look on them .

[anandhum.m]

Please do a comparison between dimensity 9000 vs Snapdragon 8gen 1

[henryijeoma]

Qualcomm is about to mess up their chip naming schemes. I can only imagine how messy it's gonna be at the 7 series range

[johnsyrup]

I'm mostly intrigued by Adreno's new Frame Motion Engine. A feature that supposedly doubles framerates at same power cost is almost too good to be true.

Unless it's similar to NVIDIA's DLSS and AMD's FSR but they require individual games and apps to support them in the first place. Thus I would temper my expectation and await more info.

[mikldude]

Good video, thanks Gary.
When phone CPU`s come up in conversation, on occasion it makes me think back to early phones like my old galaxy note 4 which i really loved (after i spent some time tweaking it ), but in modern times and modern chips with modern technology,
back then what i would have given to have a snapdragon 625 or a 765 in my old note 4 :).
That could even make an interesting speed test ;) .
One thing about the new snapdragon that they do not seem to mention is thermals, or maybe that is all on the phone maker to deal with SOC heat ?
Given these days with people expecting more and more from their electronic devices and software becoming more demanding on chipsets, you would think thermals might get a mention,
or am i barking up the wrong tree ?

[RixtronixLAB]

Nice video clip, keep it up, thank you for sharing :)

[henryijeoma]

YOUR MOVE SAMSUNG. AMD better blow me away

[danijelujcic]

As soon as it was announced, I was quite sure that the 888 was going to be the last of the current three-digit naming scheme. Could've been 875, 885 and 895. 898 doesn't make any sense even for Qualcomm. And there are MANY chip naming choices that make no sense there.

[amermeleitor]

Why Qualcomm not support hardware acceleration for AV1 ????

[RealLifeTech]

Do we already know (maybe from the press materials) if it's Samsungs 4LPE or 4LPP node? Because reports mentioned 4LPE is equal to 5LPP and that a new 4LPP node was added to Samsungs roadmap.
I know it's not important on what node it's made only real world performance matters but I'm still curious and interested. 🤷‍♂️