A Peek At The TSMC Fabbed Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1
Qualcomm have moved from Samsung to TSMC for his or her refresh of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip, predictably named the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1. Qualcomm have instructed it is best to anticipate a modest efficiency enhance, a 3.2 GHz peak CPU enhance which is a ten% p.c enchancment, and the identical enhance in GPU efficiency. The actual enchancment would be the energy effectivity, because the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 supposedly gives a 30% enchancment over the unique.
The facility financial savings come from a 15% discount in CPU energy necessities and 30% much less for the GPU, which ought to find yourself equating to round an hour of additional utilization. Don’t let the ability financial savings trick you into pondering that the GPU is slacking off, as it would provide 10bit color depth in addition to the small efficiency enhance.
Will probably be attention-grabbing to see if switching foundries mid-generation resolves a few of the issues now we have seen with the unique Snapdragon 8 GPU.
You probably have a while this weekend, there’s an open beta of a brand new on-line multiplayer FPS known as Leap which runs from 10:00am PT immediately till to Might 22 at 6:00pm PT. It truly releases June 1st, if it seems to be an satisfying expertise.
