Qualcomm’s next-generation flagship SoC may be named Snapdragon 898

This SoC will use the core of the Armv9 architecture, which are a Kryo 780 Prime (Cortex-X2), three Kryo 780 Gold (Cortex-A710), and four Kryo 780 Silver (Cortex-A510), two of them will run at a higher frequency, and the other two will run at a lower frequency. Its GPU is Adreno 730, VPU and DPU are Adreno 665 and Adreno 1195, respectively, to further improve machine learning capabilities and enhance security. At the same time, it is equipped with the Snapdragon X65 5G baseband, providing a data transmission speed of up to 10Gbps, which is higher than the 7.5Gbps of the Snapdragon X60. It is understood that smartphones equipped with this SoC can also support 100W fast charging.

Previously, the preliminary benchmark test results of SM8450 were leaked. In Geekbench, the Snapdragon 895 single-core benchmark score was 1250 points, and the multi-core benchmark score was 4000 points. If the Apple A14 Bionic is used as the comparison object, its single-core benchmark test score is 1596 points, and the multi-core benchmark test score is 4027 points. Although there is not much difference in multi-core performance, there is a certain gap in single-core performance.

It is rumored that Qualcomm is likely to obtain TSMC’s (TSMC) 4nm process capacity in the second half of 2022, and will release a so-called SM8450 Plus product, which will convert the foundry from Samsung to TSMC. This situation may be similar to the relationship between Snapdragon 780 and Snapdragon 778. The two products are similar but maybe slightly different. The new SoC is expected to be released in December this year, and TSMC OEM products will be released in the middle of next year.