Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 888+ chipset not long ago, which is an overclocked version of the Snapdragon 888. Now, he company seems to be developing a flagship chipset, expected to be named the Snapdragon 898.
This morning, Digital Chat Station revealed a Geekbench score for an unknown Vivo device featuring a chipset codenamed ‘Taro.’ The chipset uses an Adreno 730 GPU, confirming it as the Snapdragon 898. Its base frequency is 1.79 GHz, the same as the Snapdragon 888.
The blogger also mentioned that the current Snapdragon 898 prototype has a lower frequency than the first leaked Snapdragon 888 prototype. The retail version will have a higher frequency, better performance, and higher power consumption.
The Snapdragon 898 chipset was previously revealed to use Samsung’s 4nm process, offering up to a 20% performance increase. This chipset will also feature a new core architecture, including the Cortex-X2 super core, Cortex-A710 cores, and Cortex-A510 cores. Another significant change is the Adreno 730 GPU.
The networking experience will also be more substantial, as the chipset will feature the X65 5G modem, the first to support 10Gbps speeds. Several Chinese smartphone manufacturers have already started testing this chipset, and Xiaomi is expected to be the first to launch the world’s first smartphone equipped with the Snapdragon 898.