Qualcomm just announced its new mid-to-high-end Snapdragon 7+ Gen 2 chipset. And no, you didn’t miss them: there was no Snapdragon 7+ Gen 1 and no Snapdragon 7 Gen 2. The original Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 it only made it to a handful of devices, but hopefully that will change now.
The Snapdragon 7+ Gen 2 promises substantial performance and energy efficiency improvements. The main core of the Kryo CPU is clocked at 2.91GHz and the full 1+3+4 CPU package offers a performance increase of more than 50% over the SD7 Gen 1.
An unnamed Adreno GPU, on the other hand, boasts a 2x performance boost. The efficiency gains are a little more modest: 13% in various scenarios.
As is usually the case with Qualcomm’s announcements, there are no detailed specs of the CPU or GPU package. The good news is that devices running on silicon are already arriving this month, so we won’t have to wait long to find out.
Other platform features include Auto Variable Rate Shading which renders the foreground game scenes in high resolution and leaves the background in low resolution to save power and resources. Also on board is Volumetric Rendering, which debuted with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 platform.
Even the ISP gets a boost. It is upgraded to 18-bit Triple ISP for better low-light photography by stacking 30 images in one. 200MP sensors are also supported, as is the capture of triple exposure HDR video from two cameras simultaneously.
When it comes to AI, Qualcomm’s AI engine delivers 2X better performance and 40% battery savings per watt.
For connectivity, Snapdragon 7+ Gen 2 uses the Snapdragon X62 5G Modem-RF system with downloads up to 4.4 Gbps. More importantly, however, phones running on the 7 series will finally be able to use the 4G/5G Dual-Sim Dual Active (DSDA) feature.
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