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It can be said that the mobile phone circle in the past October is lively and numerous, with quantity, new products, flagship, volume and volume. Most of the light in October will no doubt be attributed to Snapdragon 8 Gen3 and to recapture Snapdragon's flagship Xiaomi 14 series.

There is no doubt that Snapdragon 8 Gen3 represents another peak of Snapdragon's flagship processor. From the data captured by Master Lu backstage, its performance has undoubtedly become the commanding height of the current Android camp, and its power performance is so excellent that many enthusiasts call it "Little 835".

At the same time, with the launch of the "Singles Day" Shopping Festival, the release rhythm of new phones by various manufacturers has also changed from flagship machines that compete for strength to mid-range computers that are cheaper and easier to go, while the mid-market has always been the home of MediaTek. Qualcomm has also distributed products, but it is obviously not as dense as Fage.

All in all, it looks very lucky to have "8" and "6" on the new plane in October, and only the Google is still stuck in the quagmire of self-developed chips, which will be really difficult to draw for a while. Next, follow Lu sir to see which new machines are on the list in October, and what are the changes in the score?

01 performance list: the new Snapdragon 8 series "three generations in the same house", the mid-end machine opened, the whole page is full of "6"

October this year is more lively than in previous years. You should know that in the past, Singles Day was an important time for major mobile phone manufacturers to clear inventory throughout the year, and it was supposed to be the home market of performance-to-price phones, mid-range phones and walking machines. However, I do not know if it is not selling well this year. In order to give some new stimulus to the market, Qualcomm, which is at the top of the supply chain, does not follow common sense. Take the lead in releasing the next generation of flagship SoC-- Snapdragon 8 Gen3.

Judging from the paper parameters, Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 still adopts TSMC 4nm process and is still the 8-core Qualcomm Kryo CPU architecture, but the layout of large and small cores has changed from the previous generation of "1x 4x3" to "1x 5m 2", including a super-large core based on Arm Cortex-X4 architecture, and the main frequency can reach up to 3.3GHz. Five Cortex-A720 performance cores (2.96GHz Cortex-A720 * 2+3.15GHz Cortex-A720 * 3) with the highest frequency of 3.19GHz, and two energy efficiency cores based on Cortex-A520, with the highest frequency of 2.27GHz.

It can be seen that this generation of Snapdragon 8 Gen3 further increases the frequency and number of performance cores, and at the same time, adopts a pure 64-bit architecture, which means that the theoretical upper limit has been further improved in both running scenarios and daily performance releases.

In terms of GPU, Adreno GPU speed has increased by 25%, energy efficiency by 25%, and ray tracing by 40%. These performance enhancements also lead to a 10% overall energy saving, which greatly increases battery life.

Xiaomi, which also seems to have extraordinary confidence in Snapdragon 8 Gen3, has not competed for its debut for several years, and this year's high-profile promotion of its own 14 series will launch Snapdragon 8 Gen3 chip.

When the product is actually released and the relevant data are lifted one after another, the performance and game performance of Snapdragon 8 Gen3, or Xiaomi 14 series with Snapdragon 8 Gen3, have greatly exceeded everyone's expectations.

Master Lu captured in the background that Xiaomi 14 and Xiaomi 14 Pro scored 1618456 points and 1639236 points. for some of the previous leading versions of Snapdragon 8 Gen2 and Snapdragon 8 Gen2, the total score increased, and the single-core and multi-core GPU also improved, so they deserved to win the top two and two phones.

After that, the OPPO Find N3 was equipped with the Snapdragon 8 Gen2 processor. There is no doubt that, as the processor product of the current Android camp "under one person", the performance of the OPPO Find N3 is still beyond doubt in October, when the Snapdragon 8 Gen3 terminal is not yet available in large quantities, and finally ranked third with a score of 1367299.

However, the highlight of the OPPO Find N3 is not the performance, but the ultimate video experience, which is not even limited to the folding screen. The main part uses the "folded pixel" technology developed jointly with Sony. Under the premise that the lens size of the main shot is only half of that of the current largest sensor IMX989, it achieves a comparable amount of light input and light and shade effect, with a momentum of small and broad.

At the same time, the sub-camera also introduces a "periscope" telephoto, which is very rare even on the straight board, which greatly increases the available focal length when taking pictures, making the whole phone's shooting experience more complete.

Finally, the machine also introduces an independent security chip from Huiding Technology, which further adds code to the privacy security of the whole machine.

The fourth place on the list is also a folding screen product from the glorious Magic Vs2, which carries the first-generation Snapdragon 8Snapdragon, but with a down-frequency version, finally ranked fourth with a score of 1013929. This phone focuses on a light and thin, no matter in terms of weight or the thickness of the body after deployment, there is no problem in the top three of the current lightweight and large folds.

So far, the new Snapdragon 8 series chip has completed the third generation of the new and old generations on the list.

The next 5-11, is the real Singles Day should have the new plane scene, at a glance, the eyeful of "6", the mid-end market, is the battlefield of 6-series chips.

However, among these 6-series chips, one chip stood out and turned out to be the first generation Snapdragon 6 released last year on September 6, which was carried by vivo Y78t from vivo.

First of all, the Samsung 4nm process used in the first generation of Snapdragon 6 decided from the very beginning that the following 6-character chips are no longer the product of a generation. secondly, this processor has 4 2.2GHz A78 cores + 4 1.8GHz A55 cores, and the CPU performance is about 40% higher than that of Snapdragon 695. The performance of LPDDR5 memory and UFS3.1 flash memory is improved by about 35%.

Vivo's Y series has always focused on offline product lines, and the main selling point is pragmatism such as long life and durability, so the performance must not be too bad, at least to a degree. Vivo Y78t focuses on a 6000mAh super-capacity battery, and finally achieved a mid-stream score of 610555 with the blessing of "the first generation Snapdragon 6".

As can be seen from the scores of the remaining models, the performance gap between them is not very big. Tianji 6080 and 6020, in essence, are small improved versions of Tianji 810 and Tianji 700. the targets themselves are Snapdragon 695,680, which belong to the comparison of the "older generation" two or three years ago. and these models themselves, are mainly focused on the battery life, high brush, and design these flagship elements, used to cater to offline consumer tastes, there is not too much detail here.

Finally, I would like to mention the facade of Google-the Pixel series.

Since entering the era of self-research chips, Google's Pixel series has always been impressive with excellent computational photography algorithms, using algorithms to achieve effects beyond the hardware itself officially Pixel, or Google, the company has always been amazing.

However, the development of the Tensor chip is not as smooth as the computational photography algorithm, and its power consumption, heat and performance release have not been satisfactory. To this year's Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro, the performance of the Tensor G3 processor is still pulling, and even Google has made the operation of disabling the running software. Although Master Lu backstage did not capture the relevant data of these two models and the Tensor G3, but the public opinion is not very optimistic.

This October performance list, whether it is flagship model or civilian model, really, each has its own highlights.

02 fluency list: ColorOS 13 won the first place steadily, surging OS still has room to rise.

The fluency of the mobile phone system is not only based on hardware resources, but also the scheduling of software and the system itself are also very important for resource planning.

When it comes to the system, in October's new machine, Xiaomi 14 series of two new phones, in addition to the first brand-new Snapdragon 8 Gen3, but also launched Xiaomi self-developed surging OS system, then Xiaomi self-research system in Master Lu's debut performance?

Of course, compared with the established system, it is obviously unrealistic to parachute to the top of the list in order to achieve the debut. The top spot in the October system fluency list was scored by OPPO Find N3 and its ColorOS 13.2, with a score of 226.43.

As a system specially adapted for folding screens, ColorOS 13.2on OPPO Find N3 was first reproduced for the native application interface of 20 +, while the adaptation rate for many national applications such as sweet potato and Weibo also reached 86%.

Of course, the most creative is the "background waiting" mechanism introduced by OPPO Find N3 and the native viewing function of keynote, pages, numbers, CAD, markdown and other documents on Android for the first time.

This "background waiting" mechanism is based on the newly added "super-field-of-view panoramic virtual screen" to achieve a background scheduling operation. To put it simply, OPPO Find N3 creates a virtual desktop for the background App door within the system and outside the screen. As long as you click on these applications in the "waiting" state, you can directly use it in a complete foreground state. Make full use of the advantages of large screen and split screen.

It was closely followed by Honor Magic Vs2, which was equipped with the MagicOS 7.2 system and finished second with a score of 214.02.

On the basis of previous work, MagicOS 7.2 brings further in-depth optimization for folding screen phones, upgrading the UI adaptive layout engine on the inner screen adaptation, eliminating complicated tripartite adaptation work, making the operation more convenient, and supporting a variety of split screens, application hanging methods, and hovering play is also further enriched, including standby, watching, meeting, music, shooting, office and other application scenarios. Can release both hands for use, but also support voice print recognition, audio and video notes can be recorded.

The much-anticipated surging OS, which launched its terminal Xiaomi 14 and Xiaomi 14 Pro, ranked third and fourth on the new machine fluency list with scores of 210.47 and 204.12 respectively.

In fact, from the beginning of the publicity, Xiaomi officially announced that HyperOS is a system based on the fusion of the self-developed Vela system kernel and the deeply modified Linux system kernel. Xiaomi reconstructs the basic modules such as performance scheduling, task management, memory management, file management and so on, which greatly improves the performance and efficiency.

At the same time, in the service and framework layer above the kernel layer of the system, the HyperOS team incorporated the service framework of Android and the service framework of the self-developed Vela system into it, thus creating a new eight subsystems, of which the brand-new AI subsystem integrates the ability of large models to become the "intelligent brain" of the whole system, which can not only enable a single device to achieve strong end-to-side AI capability, but also give the whole ecological intelligence ability.

As for the hot AI model in the industry, Xiaomi said that thepaper.cn OS has implanted the AI model into the system and took the lead in supporting NPU deployment.

So at present, thepaper.cn OS itself has a solid foundation, but it only needs time to polish, and at present, its landing terminals are only high-end flagships, hardware restrictions are relatively loose, the real test of the system capability depends on its performance in the middle and high-end models.

The fluency performance of the rest of these mid-range walking machines is more based on their hardware level, but many of them rely on the excellent scheduling of the system to complete the ranking reversal, such as Huawei nova 11 SE and Glory play 50 Plus. The two phones still rank 10th and 11th on the performance list that values hardware, while they rise to seventh and eighth on the list of fluency in which software can intervene in optimization.

As I said above, a really good system can help the phone's overall experience turn decay into magic and further increase the limitations that may be brought about by the original hardware, as reflected in the Hongmeng operating system 4.0and MagicOS 7.2of Huawei nova 11 SE and Honor play 50 Plus.

03 summary: the ranking of long-used fluency list is still stable, and Snapdragon 8 Gen3 equipment will usher in a blowout in the future.

The list of long-used fluency in October remains unchanged, mainly because it takes more time to precipitate, and the longer it takes, the more it can prove whether the product can stand the polishing of "long-use".

Overall, October is a "flagship and volume" month, with both Xiaomi 14 series with Snapdragon's new flagship and 6-series pragmatic products, straight boards and folding screens, performance flagships and video gentry, with a lot of choices and choices at the same time.

After all, during the Singles Day holiday, the new flagship does not reduce the price, but the hardware is new, and the old flagship configuration is old but the price is fragrant. How to choose depends on the individual.

As for the coming November, first of all, Qualcomm's competitor MediaTek has released its new flagship Tianji 9300 on the evening of the 6th, with four X4 super cores + four A720 performance cores. Anyone who sees it will have to sigh the "real fight" ah, the vivo X100 series has already announced its debut.

At the same time, the terminal of Snapdragon 8 Gen3 will also usher in a blowout in November, when we will see the long-awaited face-to-face showdown between Snapdragon 8 Gen3 and Tianji 9300.

Finally, whether Snapdragon 8 Gen3 or Tianji 9300, and even some domestic manufacturers' systems, have begun to emphasize their AI computing power and the ability to execute large models, which, not surprisingly, will move closer to the aspect of "generative AI". This is bound to be the next new trend of smartphones, and we can also wait and see.

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