Qualcomm announces Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1, for when flagship isn’t flagship enough

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And there’s a 7 Gen 1 for less expensive gaming phones

set the stage for the biggest Android smartphones of 2022, including Samsung’s flagship Galaxy — but it’s about to be surpassed by a better “Plus” version that’ll no doubt appear in buy-it-for-the-bragging-rights gaming phones and luxury handsets.

Technically, Qualcomm says it’s achieved “up to 30 percent” better power efficiency from both the CPU and GPU, and 20 percent better AI performance per watt, but that doesn’t necessarily all transfer into more battery life — some of it’s about performance, too.sustained performance from the new chip too — theoretically maintaining its clockspeed for longer as it heats up while gaming or tapping into 5G. Of course, that all depends on how phone manufacturers decide to cool the chip.

The company’s not breaking down where the extra performance and efficiencies are coming from, but you can see some of the chip’s other features in the slide above, even though many of them haven’t changed fromSnapdragon 7 Gen 1 features.

Honor, Oppo and Xiaomi are the only brands listed as building devices around the 7 Gen 1 as of today, though those phones may arrive first — they’re listed for Q2 2022, and Qualcomm says we’ll see the first devices within weeks. The 8 Plus Gen 1 devices, meanwhile, are expected in Q3.

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