of Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor officially announced last weekHowever Samsung was mysteriously missing from Qualcomm’s list of official partnersIt was then reported that the Korean company could use a special version of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 with a higher clocked CPU. Now it looks like the company’s upcoming high-end phones will also use higher clocked GPUs.
The standard version of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 (SM8550-AB) features a prime CPU (Cortex-X3) core clocked at 3.19GHz, four mid CPU cores clocked at 2.8GHz and three power efficient CPU cores (Cortex-A510) It has a clock. At 2 GHz, the Adreno 740 GPU runs at 680 MHz. In comparison, apparently of Galaxy S23 It uses a variant of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor (SM8550-AC), with the main CPU core clocked at 3.36 GHz and the GPU clocked at 719 MHz. But to master this overclocked chipset, samsung Also, proper cooling mechanisms should be used.
Qualcomm occasionally releases high-clock versions of their flagship smartphone chipsets, whose model numbers end in AC. For example, the Snapdragon 855 had the model number SM8150, while the Snapdragon 855+ with a faster CPU had the model number SM8150-AC. It’s not clear what this chipset will be called: Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Pro, Snapdragon 8+ Gen 2, or something else.
The stock Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is claimed to have a 35% faster CPU and 25% faster GPU compared to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. The last two generations of chips tended to overheat and throttle under sustained load.
