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Qualcomm released many new chips again at the annual technology summit in Hawaii. After a quick preview of the expected content yesterday, we can now get the details of the latest Snapdragon product. In addition to the first integrated 5G chipset announced today, the company also unveiled its next-generation flagship product, Snapdragon865. The product improves the image signal processor (ISP) and updates the artificial intelligence engine and compatibility functions. The company's X55 5G modem.

Snapdragon 865 has the performance and energy efficiency improvements you usually expect. For example, the company says the new Kryo 585 CPU is 25% faster and more energy efficient, while the adrenaline 650 GPU is 20% faster and 35% more energy efficient.

Greatly improve camera performance.

But the real bright spot is the improvement of cameras and games. The reconfigured Spectra 480Image signal processor (ISP) can handle four times more pixels per clock cycle than its predecessor. This allows engineers to slow down ISP's clock speed and improve its performance: it can process 2gb pixels per second. The lower clock speed does not require as much effort to perform the same process as before, thus making the spectrum 480 have higher thermal efficiency.

This means that even if your phone continues to shoot high-resolution video logs, your phone can still stay cool, which will reduce the limit that the device will not work due to high operating temperatures. This means that the Snapdragon 865 device can continuously shoot video at a higher frame rate, so Qualcomm says you can capture unlimited HD video at 960 fps, but it's important to note that "unlimited" depends on the storage and battery capacity of the device. It has much more control than existing 960fps phones, which can only record a continuous shot of about 0.2 seconds at this frame rate. If you want to shoot in slow motion at 4K, Snapdragon 865 can also be shot with 240 fps.

With the new ISP, if your phone has the sensors and hardware you need, you can also record 8K videos or take 200-megapixel photos. Snapdragon 865 has also added support for HDR video capture in the Dolby Vision Standard, which is very popular in the film industry.

New desktop gaming features.

The Snapdragon 865 will support a feature called Desktop forward rendering, which is basically used for forward rendering on Android devices (the graphics pipeline used by most game engines). Qualcomm said it would achieve "desktop-quality lighting and post-processing effects, creating new fidelity for mobile games". The company works with Unreal to bring the game engine on the desktop to mobile devices without sacrificing that it usually runs more efficiently within the temperature limits of smaller devices or within temperature limits.

I watched the recorded demo and noticed the more complex lighting and reflection effects when forward rendering is enabled. Snapdragon 865 also got Game Color Plus 2.0, which enabled HDR to join the game in the first iteration. PJ Jacobwitz, a spokesman for Qualcomm, said the new version will upgrade "games that do not use the HDR color space." Be careful. Instead of simply saturating every hue, Jacobowitz explains that the tool understands and retains the skin tone of standard dynamic colors and enhances things such as the sky and grass, so that the effect still looks realistic.

85 GPU also added a hardware embedded feature called adrenaline HDR fast mixing to enhance heavy-effect scenes, such as "complex particle system" scenes, thus doubling the rendering speed of some scenes. It also provides an updatable driver that you can download through Play Store. Therefore, when performance improves, you don't have to wait until the next Android update to install them. However, it is the device manufacturer that publishes these packages, and they will push notifications for you to install these updates.

Finally, the 865 will support 144hz playback, a smoother gaming experience than the existing 120Hz on game phones in 2019. When a fast display screen does appear on the phone, it will be the first screen to reach this speed.

Connection update

Unlike the 765 and 765G, the Snapdragon 865 does not integrate its 5G modem. Instead, it can be used with the Snapdragon X55 modem-RF system to achieve download speeds of up to 7.5 Gbps and speeds of 3 Gbps. Like the X52 modem of the 765, this will support 5G technologies such as millimeter wave, less than 6 GHz, TDD, FDD, DSS and so on. Such a rich specification only means that it will be compatible with the global 5G network.

Cheng explained that when the company designed the 865 three years ago, it did not want partners to choose between integrating 5G modems or separating them. "so we just use it as an option: spread out," he said. " He added: "if you look at the multimedia features included in the platform, you will understand why we want to separate them."

85 also supports WiFi 6 (up to 1.8 Gbps) and Bluetooth 5.1, as well as other common connection options. It will support Bluetooth UWB voice to improve the audio of the headset.

Qualcomm also highlighted its fifth-generation AI engine, which is a combination of its CPU, GPU and Hexagon 698 processors. Thanks to these components, Snapdragon 865 can perform artificial intelligence tasks of 15 trillion operations per second, twice as fast as its predecessor.

The company expects the Snapdragon 865-equipped device to be launched in the first quarter of 2020. Motorola announced in its keynote speech yesterday that it would use the chipset in upcoming devices. Whether the features described by Qualcomm are really available will depend on how manufacturers implement them in their devices. But it sounds like Snapdragon 865 can pave the way for real progress in mobile photography.

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