Qualcomm announces Snapdragon 888 during Tech Summit

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https://www.anandtech.com/show/16271/qualcomm-snapdragon-888-deep-dive

just borrowing this table from anandtech’s article for the quick side by side with snapdragon 865.

SoCSnapdragon 865

Snapdragon 888​

CPU1x Cortex-A77
@ 2.84GHz 1x512KB pL2

3x Cortex-A77
@ 2.42GHz 3x256KB pL2

4x Cortex-A55
@ 1.80GHz 4x128KB pL2

4MB sL3
1x Cortex-X1
@ 2.84GHz 1x1024KB pL2

3x Cortex-A78
@ 2.42GHz 3x512KB pL2

4x Cortex-A55
@ 1.80GHz 4x128KB pL2

4MB sL3
GPUAdreno 650 @ 587 MHz
Adreno 660 @ ?MHz

Looks like a nice bump up from 865. On paper it might match A14, possibly exceed in some areas?






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https://www.anandtech.com/show/16291/qualcomm-tech-summit-2020-day-one-liveblog-1000-et-1500-utc

More details (hopefully to include actual information on new cores, GPU, etc) to come tomorrow, but so far they've said it's got their "biggest jump in Adreno graphics yet", maybe they are aiming for A14 performance? IIRC Snapdragon 865, on paper, was faster than A12 / slower than A12X? Maybe I'm off there.

The rest of the presentation was marketing fluff about how everyone loves it and how it can do neat things with its modem and image processing, and it's got an "AI engine" that might be more than twice as fast in TOPS as what Apple has in the M1. So maybe more details on that stuff tomorrow too.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/1/...ssor-first-look-5g-performance-ai-photography

https://www.engadget.com/qualcomm-snapdragon-888-5g-gaming-cameras-150046640.html

ChadD we were just talking about this in the NVIDIA thread - maybe they'll have some benchmarks and details tomorrow eh?
 
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yeah, unless something crazy happens, that would be my guess as well (in terms of performance). Snapdragon always seems to lag apple by 1 generation
 
I look forward to the A14 still outperforming this when it arrives in early 2021.

(It's honestly good news for Android fans, but Qualcomm has been struggling to compete against Apple for a few years)
 
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Does it have their latest 5G modem baked in?

Guessing the CPU layout will be something like
One Cortex X1
Three Cortex A78
Four Cortex A55 (Qualcomm, didn't they used to have an uarch team? Maybe it has been long overdue to put them back to work to replace this laggard).

Of curiosity, since Qualcomm seems to be a bit faster on the uptake with arm, will it have some SVE implementation to replace NEON?
 
Does it have their latest 5G modem baked in?

Guessing the CPU layout will be something like
One Cortex X1
Three Cortex A78
Four Cortex A55 (Qualcomm, didn't they used to have an uarch team? Maybe it has been long overdue to put them back to work to replace this laggard).

Of curiosity, since Qualcomm seems to be a bit faster on the uptake with arm, will it have some SVE implementation to replace NEON?
Yeah, the X60. It tops out at 7.5Gbps on mllimeter wave and is supposed to be ready for global launches without needing separate chip versions.
 
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