Qualcomm is preparing to announce its upcoming flagship 5G Mobile Platform the Snapdragon 898 (SM8450) processor as the successor to Snapdragon 888 / 888+ in a few months. The chip has surfaced in the benchmark of a Vivo test device from China with the model number V2102A with 8GB of RAM, running Android 12. According to leaker Digital Chat Station, the SoC will be based on Samsung’s 4nm process technology, and the prime core will feature the latest Cortex-X2 CPU compared to Cortex-X1 in the previous Snapdragon 888.
As per the leak, it uses Adreno 730 GPU compared to the Adreno 660 in the predecessor, but the clock speed is not revealed. The Vivo test device uses lower clock speeds of 1 x 2.42GHz (Prime) + 3 x 2.17GHz (Performance) 3 x 1.79GHz (Efficiency), but for mass production, there will be an increase in the frequency to offer performance improvements as well as also optimize power consumption. Earlier rumors revealed that the Prime core will be clocked at up to 3.09 GHz.
The three-lettered "big" and "LITTLE" cores are actually the first to rock an ARMv9 design and promise up to 30% better energy efficiency, whereas the X2 core should be 16% faster than its X1 predecessor. The processor could be feature a Snapdragon X65 4th generation 4nm 5G modem, which was introduced earlier this year as the world’s first 10 Gigabit 5G and the first 3GPP release 16 modem-RF system.
The Snapdragon 898 could be introduced sometime in December, we should know more details and the exact launch date in the coming weeks.
