At the Snapdragon Technology Summit, Qualcomm officially released a new generation of flagship chip Snapdragon 888.
Qualcomm officially explained that this generation of chips is named Snapdragon 888 instead of Snapdragon 875, because 8 has always been Qualcomm's number representing the flagship, and the number 8 is also the lucky number in the world. For some people, it means infinity, success or inner wisdom, while for others, it means luck.
It is worth noting that Liu Zuohu, the founder and CEO of OnePlus, asked the majority of netizens for their opinions on Weibo: Next year, OnePlus will be celebrating its eighth anniversary. How about next year’s OnePlus flagship phone called OnePlus 888?
According to the conventional naming of OnePlus, the next-generation flagship of OnePlus should be the OnePlus 9 series. Liu Zuohu hinted that the possibility of naming it OnePlus 888 will not be ruled out.
It is reported that OnePlus' next-generation flagship will be the first to be equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 processors.
The Snapdragon 888 mobile platform uses 5nm process technology, built-in Kryo 680 CPU, the core uses 1 ARM's latest Cortex X1 super core 2.84GHz + 3 A78 large core 2.4GHz + 4 A55 small core 1.8GHz.
Officially, the Snapdragon 888 mobile platform is the first mobile platform to adopt the Cortex X1 architecture. This is a brand new architecture that can increase CPU performance by 25%, and Qualcomm has also increased the overall efficiency of the entire CPU cluster by 25%.
Not only that, Snapdragon 888 integrates Adreno 660 GPU, the graphics rendering speed is up to 35% higher than the previous generation platform.
Adreno 660 supports variable resolution rendering, allowing mobile games to run faster and higher resolution, and still maintain high visual fidelity, while also reducing GPU workload.
To sum up, compared with the Snapdragon 865 processor of the OnePlus 8 series, the Snapdragon 888 of the next-generation flagship of OnePlus has made significant progress in performance, which is worth looking forward to.
