Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 888+ chipset not long ago, which is an overclocked version of the Snapdragon 888. Now, it seems that the company is working on a flagship chipset, which will likely be named Snapdragon 898.
This morning, the famous Chinese blogger Digital Chat Station revealed the Geekbench of an unknown Vivo device running on a chipset with the codename Taro. Furthermore, the chipset uses the Adreno 730 GPU, which confirms that it is the Snapdragon 898 chipset. The chipset also has a base frequency of 1.79GHz, the same as the Snapdragon 888.
The blogger also mentioned that the current prototype of Snapdragon 898 has a lower frequency than the Snapdragon 888’s first leaked prototype (1x 2.42GHz super core, 3x 2.17GHz power cores, and 4x 1.79GHz power-saving cores). The retail version will have a higher frequency, better performance, and higher power consumption.
The Snapdragon 898 chipset was previously revealed to be based on Samsung’s 4nm manufacturing process, which offers a 20% performance boost. It will also use new cores, including the Cortex-X2 super core, Cortex-A710, and Cortex-A510 cores. Another significant change is the Adreno 730 GPU.
The networking experience will also be more substantial as the Snapdragon 898 will use the X65 5G modem, the first 10 Gbps modem. Many Chinese smartphone manufacturers are already testing the chipset, and Xiaomi is expected to be the first one to launch the world’s first Snapdragon 898-powered smartphone.
