Today Qualcomm is disclosing a set of benchmark outcomes for his or her new Snapdragon 888 SoC that’s set to energy subsequent 12 months’s flagship Android gadgets. Usually, as in years previous, we’d have had alternatives to benchmark Qualcomm’s reference designs ourselves throughout the chipset launch occasion, or a number of weeks later throughout CES. However resulting from apparent circumstances, this wasn’t attainable this 12 months.
As an alternate, Qualcomm is as an alternative sharing with the press a set of benchmark outcomes from their new Snapdragon 888 reference design cellphone. Usually, the purpose of getting the press benchmark the gadgets themselves is that it provides unbiased verification of the benchmark scores. This time round we’ll should make a bit leap of religion within the accuracy of Qualcomm’s numbers – after all we nonetheless just about anticipate the figures to be correct and be reproduced in business gadgets.
Unfortunately, as a result of nearly all of our extra attention-grabbing cellular check suite round SoCs is comprised of customized inner benchmarks, that signifies that these will probably be lacking from right now’s fairly temporary protection.
Among the benchmarks that Qualcomm has run are AnTuTu, GeekBench, GFXBench Aztec Normal and Manhattan 3.0, Ludashi AiMark, AITuTu, MLPerf and UL Procyon. We actually solely run a subset of these benchmarks are a part of our common protection, so I’ll simply be specializing in the very fundamentals with GeekBench, GFXBench and Procyon.
Starting off now we have GeekBench 5, which in my view is usually an excellent total efficiency benchmark for CPUs, and usually scales in keeping with SPEC. Here we see the brand new Snapdragon 888’s first-time use of Cortex-X1 cores in motion.
The single-threaded efficiency rating has gone up from 919 factors on the Snapdragon 865 to 1135 on the brand new SoC, a 23.5% efficiency uplift versus its direct predecessor. This is comparatively in keeping with Qualcomm’s promoted efficiency increase of 25%, and usually is what we anticipated given Qualcomm’s implementation of the Cortex-X1 within the new chipset. As a reminder, the brand new X1 cores are clocked at 2.84GHz – the identical frequency because the A77 cores on the S865, however decrease than the three.09GHz A77 cores of the Snapdragon 865+. As a consequence, in opposition to the 865+ the 888’s efficiency benefit is barely 15.4%, which doesn’t sound fairly as thrilling.
Multi-threaded efficiency of the brand new chip is available in at 16.9% higher than its predecessors. This truly was a bit odder to see as I used to be anticipating bigger enhancements. Thinking extra about it, I assume it is smart – the brand new Cortex-A78 core, which is getting used because the 3x center cores of the brand new SoC, is barely marketed as providing a 7% IPC benefit over its predecessor.
Meanwhile, Qualcomm did improve their L2 cache measurement on the center cores from 256KB to 512KB, however in any other case left their clock frequencies unchanged at 2.42GHz. Together with the unchanged 4x Cortex-A55 cores at 1.8GHz I assume the general efficiency for the entire cluster hasn’t actually modified all that a lot, with the X1 prime core being the hero of the present for this technology.
Moving on to GPU efficiency, the brand new Snapdragon 888 options the brand new Adreno 660 GPU, the place Qualcomm guarantees a 35% efficiency uplift. Qualcomm revealed GFXBench Aztec Normal and Manhattan 3.Zero scores. We moved on from Manhattan 3.Zero to Manhattan 3.1 very long time in the past, so we don’t have comparability scores in opposition to Qualcomm’s 169fps determine, however we do run Aztec Normal.
In this benchmark, Qualcomm’s listed rating of 86fps is over 55% sooner than earlier technology Snapdragon 865 gadgets. This is likely to be an outlier rating, or it might be signal of the advantages of the extra reminiscence bandwidth afforded by the SoC’s sooner LPDDR5-6400 help – Qualcomm did say that this technology the GPU will have the ability to…
