The leak comes from reputed leaker Ice Universe who claims Qualcomm’s next-in-line chip for 2022 to be christened Snapdragon 898 and that it could run at 3.09GHz max clock speed. ALSO READ: Disney+ Hotstar revamps its subscription plans w.e.f 1st September Now that’s not just more than Snapdragon 888 Plus’s 2.995GHz mark, but if true, will be a big leap for peak processing speeds. If you’re wondering, but how? Well, the probable answer is the use of Arm’s Cortex-X2 as the primary core in this chip. This is a sequel to the current Cortex-X1 that was announced in May. It is based on 64-bit Armv9 architecture, built on a 4nm process node, and promises a 16% speed jump over the X1 core (keeping the node and frequency the same). Also, note that Arm has 2x machine learning (ML) capabilities over the precursor. ALSO READ: Best Snapdragon 888 phones Coming back to Snapdragon 898, it is too early to tell whether the chip would be employing other Armv9 cores such as Cortex-A710 for high-performance tasks and Cortex-A510 for low-performance chores. If that’s the case, you could also expect a new Adreno GPU and Hexagon DSP, among other things. In another leak, we had seen alleged Geekbench scores of SD895 (could be SD898 too) around 1,250 for single-core and 4,000 for multi-core. Although, we can’t be sure if it’s correct, but seems promising for sure. Source: 1
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