Wednesday, July 26th 2023
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy Powers Samsung's Newest Flagship Device Lineup
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. announced that its flagship Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Mobile Platform for Galaxy is powering Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.'s new cutting-edge foldable smartphones, the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5 and Galaxy Z Flip5, and its latest Galaxy Tab S9 Series. Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy defines a new standard for connected computing, including groundbreaking AI experiences, desktop-level gaming features, professional grade photography, and more, for consumers around the world.
"Samsung is important to our mission to deliver the world's best mobile experiences to consumers. They continue to set the pace for innovation and we couldn't be more thrilled to have Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy power the newest flagship Galaxy device lineup—the Galaxy Z Flip5, Galaxy Z Fold5, and Galaxy Tab S9 series," said Alex Katouzian, senior vice president and general manager, mobile, compute, & XR businesses, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
"We believe the future of our products lies in delivering new and exciting experiences in a range of form-factors, all powered by the latest and greatest technology," Inkang Song, vice president and head of technology strategy team, Samsung Electronics. "Samsung is proud to feature the latest flagship Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy inside the Galaxy Z Flip5, Galaxy Z Fold5, and Galaxy Tab S9 Series. We're excited to see how these devices will enable new possibilities for our users."
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 - Technology Highlights
"Samsung is important to our mission to deliver the world's best mobile experiences to consumers. They continue to set the pace for innovation and we couldn't be more thrilled to have Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy power the newest flagship Galaxy device lineup—the Galaxy Z Flip5, Galaxy Z Fold5, and Galaxy Tab S9 series," said Alex Katouzian, senior vice president and general manager, mobile, compute, & XR businesses, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 - Technology Highlights
- Snapdragon Smart: Samsung's new Galaxy devices feature our fastest, most advanced Qualcomm AI Engine providing groundbreaking AI integrated across the entire platform. Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy features an upgraded Qualcomm Hexagon Processor that enables micro tile inferencing to help accelerate complex AI models for increased AI performance, and the latest Qualcomm Sensing Hub with dual AI processors to support ultra-low power AI experiences like AI-based echo cancelling and noise cancellation during video and phone calls.
- Snapdragon Sight : Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy helps to define a new era of professional quality camera experiences. Snapdragon's Cognitive ISP enables real-time Semantic Segmentation1 to enhance images, ultra low-light video capture, and multi-frame noise reduction.
- Snapdragon Gaming: The accelerated Qualcomm Adreno GPU enables real time hardware-accelerated ray tracing to deliver life-like light, reflections, and illuminations in mobile games. With support for the latest Vulkan APIs (version 1.3), the Galaxy series enables improved graphics performance and helps developers accelerate the transition of desktop games to mobile.
- Multi-Gigabit Connectivity: The new Samsung Galaxy devices features Qualcomm Technologies' leading connectivity solutions, including the Snapdragon X70 Modem-RF System, and Qualcomm FastConnect Mobile Connectivity Subsystem for high-speed and ultra-low latency Wi-Fi, and the latest Bluetooth audio enhancements.
12 Comments on Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy Powers Samsung's Newest Flagship Device Lineup
And this news how ?
Used to be Samsung cores on a Samsung SoC on a Samsung node.
Now it's Arm cores on a Qualcomm SoC on a TSMC node.
It is almost certain that the S24 lineup will be plagued by Exynos again.
Not that it really matters; Samsung doesn't use exotic cooling (e.g. Oneplus), and the S23s are best run in Light mode with the Cortex-X3 underclocked, it's no less of a beast.
Not even sure if software support has even been true in recent years. Generation after generation it's always Exynos/Dimensity that are suffering GPU-wise due to Qualcomm marketshare and the fact they aren't Qualcomm, it's either hard or unpopular to optimize for those platforms.
As for the 'power', I disagree. I use my phone for lots of productivity tasks and the difference is day and night. If only Android wasn't such a POS.It's bad to generalize. For me, for example, it's the other way around.
The lower midrange phones usually have really good runtimes but it's more down to the fact that the batteries are huge and there's only so much power that the existing silicon *can* draw at high load. If you take the reins completely off a 8+ Gen 1 or 8 Gen 2 of course it's going to run the battery dry, the Prime core doesn't even exist on the midranger to draw copious power.
But these days with adaptive panels that aggressively drop to 10-24Hz after your finger leaves the screen, better idle power optimizations with new cores, and better nodes, flagships are certainly not 'much' worse as they have been in the past few years.
Specifically, I want to see more 7+ Gen 2 designs, because paired with a big battery it is truly the new efficient do-everything champ to beat.