Some time ago we talked about it Snapdragon 888 Pro but today we have the official status: it is called Snapdragon 888 Plus Qualcomm's new top-of-the-range processor that we will see on most powerful smartphones of 2021 (and part of 2022). Qualcomm presented the new flagship processor at the Mobile International Congress in Barcelona. This chipset is a improved version of the regular 888. However, the changes are quite minimal.
Here is Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus comes out in the open: official the new processor with up to 3.0 GHz clock. What a bomb gentlemen!
Technically, the Snapdragon 888 Plus is not much different from the regular 888. It is still the same 5nm processor with un Cortex-X1 super core, three Cortex-A78 high performance e four Cortex-A55 energy efficient. The only difference is that the speed of maximum clock has been increased from 2.84 to 3 GHz. Responsible for the graphics without modifications is the integrated video accelerator Adreno 660. Qualcomm does not indicate how much more productive the new chip has become in terms of CPU or GPU.
The main improvement, according to Qualcomm, was the Sixth Generation Qualcomm AI Engine updated, responsible for working with operations related to artificial intelligence. If in Snapdragon 888 its performance was 26 TOP (trillions of operations per second), in the version 888+ this figure has been increased to 32 TOP. As a result, artificial intelligence tasks should be completed around 20% faster.
For communication in Snapdragon 888 Plus, the proprietary modem is responsible Snapdragon X60 with 5G support, which provides data transfer at speeds up to 7,5 Gb / s. The processor supports up to 16GB LPDDR5 RAM, 4K 60Hz or QHD + 144Hz displays, Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.2, photos up to 200 megapixels and 8K videos at 30 fps.
The first devices powered by this SoC will launch in the third quarter of this year.
