Less than a week ago, Snapdragon summit, Qualcomm officially announced the next generation of flagship SoC - Snapdragon 845 specifications.This seems only an annual update, but the Snapdragon 800 series SoC change, for Next year's flagship mobile phone market and the following year's mainstream mobile phone market, often with the role of the vane.
In other words, the emergence of Xiaolong 845, means that the 2018 year flagship phone must push the main function of Snapdragon 845; means that the unicorn 980 to muster the hard and soft Xiao Long 845 computing performance and functional characteristics ; Also means that in 2019 the Snapdragon 6XX 845 specifications to be brought into the 'ordinary people's homes.'
Always on the cusp of the Snapdragon 800 series launched a new flagship product, we naturally need to all the features of this Snapdragon 845 from a simple to deep-steak. I hope everyone after reading this article, can understand To what Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 can bring us, and how to buy a smart phone in the next year.
Theoretical performance and possible actual performance
Since the phone SoC into the 64-bit era, Qualcomm has released the following three generations of 800 Series flagship product:
Qualcomm Snapdragon 810;
Qualcomm Snapdragon 820/821;
Qualcomm Snapdragon 835.
These three generations of products, 810 using eight core public version of the architecture and 20nm process, 820/821 using four core Xiaolong magic Kryo architecture and 14nm process; 835 8-core Xiaolong magic Kryo architecture and the first generation of 10nm process ( LPE).
'810 hand warmers' who
As we all know, 20nm process technology almost all the mobile phone SoC (Snapdragon 810, MediaTek Helio X20 / 23/25/27). Hold behind the process of large core CPU or multi-core Mali GPU fever, Summer hot, the actual performance of even half of the theoretical performance can not play out.
The 14 / 16nm generation, Apple folded (dual-core power tiger), Kirin folded (Hand Po 960), Qualcomm also folded in half. The reason is still unable to suppress the process of large core CPU and multi-core high performance GPU problems. Snapdragon 820/821 although not as direct as the 810 died in the tragedy, but the overheating is also frequently occur, playing the game more than 15 minutes is also reduced Caton; and this year Snapdragon 625 with low power consumption and performance Enough hardware and 14nm process to become the performance of the year to play the most stable mobile phone SoC, after a long time copying machine performance actually surpassed the 28nm process brother Tonglian Xiaolong 652.
Also this year, people really began to pay attention to process technology for cell phone performance, that 'the parameters and the actual experience is not the same, 16nm with 8 core Mali-G71 is hot, is the card, is not moving' early this year , 10nm process technology has not been optimistic about the life-threatening order, only the first generation of 10nm LPE process under the blessing of Snapdragon 835 let the flagship mobile phone life as a whole as a whole; as 810, 820 times easily 40 ℃, 50 ℃ fever , To 835 body never appeared again.
So Snapdragon 845?
It uses 10nm LPP process technology, compared to the generation of LPE, the new process can continue to raise the SoC performance ceiling to further reduce power consumption.Cpu, the eight core Kryo 385 architecture is based on the Cortex-A75 and A55 magic come, This time, Qualcomm directly raised the maximum frequency of the four A75 cores to 2.8GHz, showing the powerful potential of the 10nm process.
Of course, the Snapdragon Snapdragon GPU can not be absent from the ground up. The Adreno 630 features a new architecture with six degrees of freedom (6DoF), instant location and map construction, making the Snapdragon 845 a mobile VR and enhanced Reality (AR) one of the new equipment standard.To know that the market you can see the high-end mobile VR integrated machine, without exception, all equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon platform as a hardware solution.
In terms of the CPU and GPU performance, Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 in a 10nm LPP process will bring the actual performance to an unprecedented level close to its theoretical performance, and solve the problem of playing down the number of frames caused by the game fever for a long time from the hardware.
Shooting and audio and video processing
Know why more than one synthesis to enhance the quality of the sudden appearance of Niubi algorithm has become a camera phone in the image quality of 'do whatever' capital? The reason is the Qualcomm Xiaolong 820, 821, 835 and 660 built-in DSP support Vector Extensions (Hexagon Vector Extensions, HVX) technology.
For Android devices, a DSP is almost a coprocessor that can intervene in many scenes of taking photos, videos, playing videos and motion perceptions, working at lower power consumption and higher efficiency, avoiding CPU and GPU wake up at the same time to achieve better results.No matter Google Pixel HDR +, HTC U11's HDR Boost or vivo X20 default multi-composite film production mechanism, are due to the presence of Hexagon DSP.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 built-in Hexagon 685 is already the third generation of support vector extensions DSP, and it still supports All-Ways Aware technology (instead of the CPU to do the daily work of sensor data recording to reduce power consumption), still equipped with Snapdragon nerve engine ; And as the dominant VR, AR related SoCs in SoCs, the Hexagon 685 also works better with CPUs and GPUs to perform tasks related to immersive experiences.
Although the status of DSP has risen significantly, the ISP is still an indispensable existence. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 845's Spectra 280 ISP has the same dual 14-bit specification as before, and supports up to 16 million pixels or 32 million pixels. ... These are everyday actions, to see what it is the most Niubi upgrade:
60 frame 4K HDR video capture; 10-bit color video capture / HDR10 video capture; 480 frame 720P HD slow motion shooting. Yes, after the fun camera, Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 focus on video recording capabilities, the phone shoot More video quality, with high-end sensors and lenses, to achieve 'a cell phone instead of a card camera and DV'.
Imagine the Samsung Galaxy S9 and HTC U12, after the display panel supports P3 gamut and HDR10, the two new machines next year may also be more than a 'recording HDR10 video' function.If you are a Vlog player, maybe When to try to shoot all the equipment into a cell phone experience how.
VR + AR = XR
Prior to this Snapdragon Summit HTC Vive summit, HTC announced the cooperation with Qualcomm introduced the brand's first equipped with Snapdragon platform mobile-class VR one machine Vive Focus. Qualcomm announced that it will cooperate on a large scale Force the field of VR and AR, XR and 5G era to synchronize.
So, what is XR? Very simple, that is, VR and AR together. As we all know, VR completely screen the real content, the user into the virtual world; AR is in the real world based on interactive content, For example, a 4S shop in the actual exhibition car, through the perspective of AR glasses, you can see the engine structure, the size of the car space and acceleration time of one hundred kilometers and other parameters of information. Existing VR and AR can not be integrated, the former more features Suitable for the consumer market, which is more suitable for business.
XR is probably what it looks like DC and Marvel's brain may provide us some clues - Iron Man Jarvis and Batman Bat Computer, more or less VR and AR technology at the same time applied to a device.
In the real world, XR allows you to walk into the furniture store without leaving home, take you close touch to feel the texture of furniture, furniture and then fancy furniture at home instantly correspond to the size, decide whether to buy; you can also make Pokemon Go gaming experience from the screen into an immersive, wear glasses, waved his hand to catch the super-dream master ball.
5G era of unlimited network latency and bandwidth soared, will allow real-time synchronization of data from MB to GB level growth.At that time, streaming media platform for audio and video content have become immersive content, webcast from The video format becomes VR, and people who are not close look out to wear XR glasses ... Creating a second world above the real world level is what Qualcomm hopes for XR.
XR rely on 5G, Qualcomm is also the vanguard of 5G connection technology; now Snapdragon 845 equipped with LTE Advanced-Pro level of the strongest Modem, XR-related support in each feature as the top priority, you You can see the ambition of Qualcomm 'Lao Zi began to get Snapdragon nerve engine 820 from a while, you Kirin a year later seized the AI to blow it, then we started blowing from 4.5G XR, time to see you How to blow '.
Connectivity
Earlier mentioned 5G NR and LTE Advanced-Pro, then we are talking about the connectivity of the Snapdragon 845. Snapdragon X20 Modem is the sequel to the X16 Snapdragon 835 body, but also Qualcomm-led LTE Advanced-Pro The strongest specifications of the times.We first look at the parameters:
Downlink Cat.18 (1.2Gbps, you are not mistaken, the second generation of Gigabit), three carrier 4 * 4 MIMO, licensed band + unlicensed band carrier aggregation (lower spectrum occupancy to achieve higher rates, the absolute black technology) , Uplink Cat.13 (150Mbps), dual-card dual VoLTE (this is too friendly to people), the whole network ... ...
What else can be nonsense? Next year listed mobile phone SoC, in addition to Snapdragon 845, no one can come up with such a ruthless Modem 怼 X16 is the world's first gigabit LTE Modem, but also the LTE Advanced-Pro era Open logo, X20 commercial can only further establish Qualcomm 4G LTE connectivity without solution dominance in the hard work of Qualcomm, the end product from 4G to 5G process is simply to push the boat.
Right, and Wi-Fi, the Snapdragon 845 fully supports the 802.11ad specification and supports dual-core 2.4GHz, 5GHz and 60GHz Wi-Fi - in simple terms, you can sit at home and enjoy only you Access to the highway, no one can rub your network, there is no crosstalk, other people's cell phones and even you are using Wi-Fi are not found.
Bluetooth, the Snapdragon 845 has a Bluetooth 5.0 radio capabilities equipped with Snapdragon 845 devices can be directly connected to two Bluetooth speaker devices to separate the left and right channels, without having to go through other devices.This can greatly enhance the user experience Bluetooth power amplifier And reduce equipment power consumption.
One More Thing
As the industry's most influential and most-core chip maker, Qualcomm's flagship SoC represents not only the best performance experience for Android devices, but also the rhythm master in the smartphone industry each year.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 has a semi-self-researched magic to change the CPU, self-study GPU / ISP / DSP / Modem, they can use their own technology to solve the problem, this is the real high-tech products. The A11's GPU into their own, for the sake of SoC also a higher degree of self-cultivation, more impeccable.
The Snapdragon 845 also joins the new SPU, and Jin Li's 'built-in security chip' will no longer be a selling point as future high-end smartphones will have a chip responsible for data security and communications security Similarly, Xiaolong 845 in XR hair force, will also promote high-end Kirin and other high-end SoCs developed for VR and AR features and features.
Or an old saying, the healthy competition among chip makers will always promote the technological development of the industry Qualcomm as a leader, but also really bring the pace of technological advances in smart phones. 2018 you can enjoy the Snapdragon 845 flagship aircraft Of the top experience, you may be able to enjoy the same experience in the high-end models of more than 2,000 yuan in 2019. Lack of MediaTek competition, next year's high-end smart phone market, leaving only the choice of end-users may be left Equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 products.
Less than a week ago, Snapdragon summit, Qualcomm officially announced the next generation of flagship SoC - Snapdragon 845 specifications.This seems only an annual update, but the Snapdragon 800 series SoC change, for Next year's flagship mobile phone market and the following year's mainstream mobile phone market, often with the role of the vane.
In other words, the emergence of Xiaolong 845, means that the 2018 year flagship phone must push the main function of Snapdragon 845; means that the unicorn 980 to muster the hard and soft Xiao Long 845 computing performance and functional characteristics ; Also means that in 2019 the Snapdragon 6XX 845 specifications to be brought into the 'ordinary people's homes.'
Always on the cusp of the Snapdragon 800 series launched a new flagship product, we naturally need to all the features of this Snapdragon 845 from a deep into a Pa. I hope everyone after reading this article, can understand To what Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 can bring us, and how to buy a smart phone in the next year.
Theoretical performance and possible actual performance
Since the phone SoC into the 64-bit era, Qualcomm has released the following three generations of 800 Series flagship product:
Qualcomm Snapdragon 810;
Qualcomm Snapdragon 820/821;
Qualcomm Snapdragon 835.
These three generations of products, 810 using eight core public version of the architecture and 20nm process, 820/821 using four core Xiaolong magic Kryo architecture and 14nm process; 835 8-core Xiaolong magic Kryo architecture and the first generation of 10nm process ( LPE).
'810 hand warmers' who
As we all know, 20nm process technology almost all the mobile phone SoC (Snapdragon 810, MediaTek Helio X20 / 23/25/27). Hold behind the process of large core CPU or multi-core Mali GPU fever, Summer hot, the actual performance of even half of the theoretical performance can not play out.
The 14 / 16nm generation, Apple folded (dual-core power tiger), Kirin folded (Hand Po 960), Qualcomm also folded in half. The reason is still unable to suppress the process of large core CPU and multi-core high performance GPU problems. Snapdragon 820/821 Although not as direct as the 810 died in the tragedy, but the overheating is also frequently occur, play the game more than 15 minutes is down Caton; and this year Snapdragon 625 with low power consumption and performance Enough hardware and 14nm process to become the performance of the year to play the most stable mobile phone SoC, after a long time copying machine performance actually surpassed the 28nm process brother Tonglian Xiaolong 652.
Also this year, people really began to pay attention to process technology for cell phone performance, that 'the parameters and the actual experience is not the same, 16nm with 8 core Mali-G71 is hot, is the card, is not moving' early this year , 10nm process technology has not been optimistic about the life-threatening order, only the first generation of 10nm LPE process under the blessing of Snapdragon 835 let the flagship mobile phone life as a whole as a whole; as 810, 820 times easily 40 ℃, 50 ℃ fever , To 835 body never appeared again.
So Snapdragon 845?
It uses 10nm LPP process technology, compared to the generation of LPE, the new process can continue to raise the SoC performance ceiling to further reduce power consumption.Cpu, the eight core Kryo 385 architecture is based on the Cortex-A75 and A55 magic come, This time, Qualcomm directly raised the maximum frequency of the four A75 cores to 2.8GHz, showing the powerful potential of the 10nm process.
Of course, the Snapdragon Snapdragon GPU can not be absent from the ground up. The Adreno 630 features a new architecture with six degrees of freedom (6DoF), instant location and map construction, making the Snapdragon 845 a mobile VR and enhanced Reality (AR) one of the new equipment standard.To know that the market you can see the high-end mobile VR integrated machine, without exception, all equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon platform as a hardware solution.
In terms of the CPU and GPU performance, Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 in a 10nm LPP process will bring the actual performance to an unprecedented level close to its theoretical performance, and solve the problem of playing down the number of frames caused by the game fever for a long time from the hardware.
Shooting and audio and video processing
Know why more than one synthesis to enhance the quality of the sudden appearance of Niubi algorithm has become a camera phone in the image quality of 'do whatever' capital? The reason is the Qualcomm Xiaolong 820, 821, 835 and 660 built-in DSP support Vector Extensions (Hexagon Vector Extensions, HVX) technology.
For Android devices, a DSP is almost a coprocessor that can intervene in many scenes of taking photos, videos, playing videos and motion perceptions, working at lower power consumption and higher efficiency, avoiding CPU and GPU wake up at the same time to achieve better results.No matter Google Pixel HDR +, HTC U11's HDR Boost or vivo X20 default multi-composite film production mechanism, are due to the presence of Hexagon DSP.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 built-in Hexagon 685 is already the third generation of support vector extensions DSP, and it still supports All-Ways Aware technology (instead of the CPU to do the daily work of sensor data recording to reduce power consumption), still equipped with Snapdragon nerve engine ; And as the dominant VR, AR related SoCs in SoCs, the Hexagon 685 also works better with CPUs and GPUs to perform tasks related to immersive experiences.
Although the status of DSP has risen significantly, the ISP is still an indispensable existence. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 Spectra 280 ISP has the same dual 14-bit specification as before, with a maximum support of 16 million pixels or 32 million pixels. ... These are everyday actions, to see what it is the most Niubi upgrade:
60 frame 4K HDR video capture; 10-bit color video capture / HDR10 video capture; 480 frame 720P HD slow motion shooting. Yes, after the fun camera, Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 focus on video recording capabilities, the phone shoot More video quality, with high-end sensors and lenses, to achieve 'a cell phone instead of a card camera and DV'.
Imagine the Samsung Galaxy S9 and HTC U12, after the display panel supports P3 gamut and HDR10, the two new machines next year may also be more than a 'recording HDR10 video' function.If you are a Vlog player, maybe When to try to shoot all the equipment into a cell phone experience how.
VR + AR = XR
Prior to this Snapdragon Summit HTC Vive summit, HTC announced the cooperation with Qualcomm introduced the brand's first equipped with Snapdragon platform mobile-class VR one machine Vive Focus. Qualcomm announced that it will cooperate on a large scale Force the field of VR and AR, XR and 5G era to synchronize.
So, what is XR? Very simple, that is, VR and AR together. As we all know, VR completely screen the real content, the user into the virtual world; AR is in the real world based on interactive content, For example, a 4S shop in the actual exhibition car, through the perspective of AR glasses, you can see the engine structure, the size of the car space and acceleration time of one hundred kilometers and other parameters of information. Existing VR and AR can not be integrated, the former more features Suitable for the consumer market, which is more suitable for business.
XR is probably what it looks like DC and Marvel's brain may provide us some clues - Iron Man Jarvis and Batman Bat Computer, more or less VR and AR technology at the same time applied to a device.
In the real world, XR allows you to walk into the furniture store without leaving home, take you close touch to feel the texture of furniture, furniture and then fancy furniture at home instantly correspond to the size, decide whether to buy; you can also make Pokemon Go gaming experience from the screen into an immersive, wear glasses, waved his hand to catch the super-dream master ball.
5G era of unlimited network latency and bandwidth soared, will allow real-time synchronization of data from MB to GB level growth.At that time, streaming media platform for audio and video content have become immersive content, webcast from The video format becomes VR, and people who are not close look out to wear XR glasses ... Creating a second world above the real world level is what Qualcomm hopes for XR.
XR rely on 5G, Qualcomm is also the vanguard of 5G connection technology; now Snapdragon 845 equipped with LTE Advanced-Pro level of the strongest Modem, XR-related support in each feature as the top priority, you You can see the ambition of Qualcomm 'Lao Zi began to get Snapdragon nerve engine 820 from a while, you Kirin a year later seized the AI to blow it, then we started blowing from 4.5G XR, time to see you How to blow '.
Connectivity
Earlier mentioned 5G NR and LTE Advanced-Pro, then we are now the connection of the Snapdragon 845. Snapdragon X20 Modem is the sequel to the X16 snapdragon 835 body, but also Qualcomm-led LTE Advanced-Pro The strongest specifications of the times. Let's look at the parameters first:
Downlink Cat.18 (1.2Gbps, you are not mistaken, the second generation of Gigabit), three carrier 4 * 4 MIMO, licensed band + unlicensed band carrier aggregation (lower spectrum occupancy to achieve higher rates, absolute black technology) , Uplink Cat.13 (150Mbps), dual-card dual VoLTE (this is too friendly to people), the whole network ... ...
What else can be nonsense? Next year listed mobile phone SoC, in addition to Snapdragon 845, no one can come up with such a ruthless Modem 怼 X16 is the world's first gigabit LTE Modem, but also the LTE Advanced-Pro era Open logo, X20 commercial can only further establish Qualcomm 4G LTE connectivity without solution dominance in the hard work of Qualcomm, the end product from 4G to 5G process is simply to push the boat.
Right, and Wi-Fi, the Snapdragon 845 fully supports the 802.11ad specification and supports dual-core 2.4GHz, 5GHz and 60GHz Wi-Fi - in simple terms, you can sit at home and enjoy only you Access to the highway, no one can rub your network, there is no crosstalk, other people's cell phones and even you are using Wi-Fi are not found.
Bluetooth, the Snapdragon 845 has a Bluetooth 5.0 radio capabilities equipped with Snapdragon 845 devices can be directly connected to two Bluetooth speaker devices to separate the left and right channels, without having to go through other devices.This can greatly enhance the user experience Bluetooth power amplifier And reduce equipment power consumption.
One More Thing
As the industry's most influential and most-core chip maker, Qualcomm's flagship SoC represents not only the best performance experience for Android devices, but also the rhythm master in the smartphone industry each year.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 has a semi-self-researched magic to change the CPU, self-study GPU / ISP / DSP / Modem, they can use their own technology to solve the problem, this is the real high-tech products. The A11's GPU into their own, for the sake of SoC also a higher degree of self-cultivation, more impeccable.
The Snapdragon 845 also joins the new SPU, and Jin Li's 'built-in security chip' will no longer be a selling point as future high-end smartphones will have a chip responsible for data security and communications security Similarly, Xiaolong 845 in XR hair force, will also promote high-end Kirin and other high-end SoCs developed for VR and AR features and features.
Or an old saying, the healthy competition among chip makers will always promote the technological development of the industry Qualcomm as a leader, but also really bring the pace of technological advances in smart phones. 2018 you can enjoy the Snapdragon 845 flagship aircraft Of the top experience, you may be able to enjoy the same experience in the high-end models of more than 2,000 yuan in 2019. Lack of MediaTek competition, next year's high-end smart phone market, leaving only the choice of end-users may be left Equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 products.
