Faster Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 could be coming to non-Samsung devices

Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is a powerful yet power-efficient processor, powering the best Android flagships this year. Samsung, on the other hand, equipped the Galaxy S23 series with a faster variant called Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy manufactured by TSMC on 4nm process tech.

As this faster Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is limited to Samsung, this exclusivity may be ending soon. According to a Weibo tipster, Qualcomm will be bringing the fastest Snapdragon chipset to the market in the near future. Various Chinese smartphone makers will introduce products equipped with this SoC.

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It’s worth noting that the “for Galaxy” branding may remain exclusive to Samsung. However, the Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 2 will bring better performance in terms of CPU and GPU. It’s also possible that the US chip designer will debut 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy as 8 Plus Gen 2 in the coming months.

At present, it’s not confirmed which phone manufacturers will utilize the overclocked Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC. Regardless, ASUS, OnePlus, Xiaomi, and Redmagic may be on the list, following the same they did over the past few years.

The 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy’s CPU in particular saw a frequency upgrade from 3.2GHz to 3.36GHz (a 5% boost). In addition, there’s a 719MHz GPU, up from 680MHz in the standard chip (a 5.7% increase) as well. It’s believed the chip’s AI silicon has also received a slight speed bump.

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