OnePlus Open 2 and Oppo Find N5 to pioneer Qualcomm’s seven-core Snapdragon 8 Elite

22 January 2025
It's designed for upcoming "Slim" and foldable phones

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test, 31 Jan 2025I had tried using an older phone and it does multitasking f... moreEven then oneplus and oppo use open canvas which can do 3 apps at once. Older chips can do it but not to the same level and not with more intensive apps

    Test, 31 Jan 2025Not subpar, because windows on arm wasn't optimized bu... moreAgain if you're talking about the x elite then yes but something like the snapdragon 7c was horrible.

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      Ouifuf, 23 Jan 2025I wouldn't go that far, especially for a folding phone... moreI had tried using an older phone and it does multitasking fine, you should know that these processors are on par with average laptop processors

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        Ouifuf, 23 Jan 2025If you're talking about the older snapdragon laptops b... moreNot subpar, because windows on arm wasn't optimized but in most cases it is on par with intel meteor lake, it beats intel core ultra 1 series in raw performance but might lose a little through emulation.

          Minu, 23 Jan 2025As long as the optimization is good, it isn't really a... moreIf you're talking about the older snapdragon laptops before the x series then you might want to check the reviews of them. They famously had sup bar performance for the price brackets they were in. The only silver lining was that it was easier to add LTE support to them (which a lot of companies didn't do to keep the price down)

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            Ouifuf, 23 Jan 2025I wouldn't go that far, especially for a folding phone... moreAs long as the optimization is good, it isn't really an issue.
            Do notice that there are Windows laptops with the same chipset, so performance isn't definitely at a threshold.

              Minu, 23 Jan 2025Especially given that even a 7-year-old Snapdragon 835 is o... moreI wouldn't go that far, especially for a folding phone. That type of processor will really struggle with multi tasking

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                Ouifuf, 22 Jan 2025That's honestly fine. No one buying this phone should ... moreEspecially given that even a 7-year-old Snapdragon 835 is overkill for most users.

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                  • 22 Jan 2025

                  Snapdragon 8 Not-That-Elite-But-Hopefully-Slightly-Cheaper
                  they coulda just called it the 8s Elite

                    Pradip Madgaonkars, 22 Jan 2025Oppo’s upcoming foldable smartphone, the Find N5 aka the On... moreThanks, AI!

                      Oppo’s upcoming foldable smartphone, the Find N5 aka the OnePlus Open 2, is expected to be the thinnest foldable smartphone ever made, even thinner than the current title holder of the thinnest foldable device — the Honor Magic V3. Earlier this week, Oppo even confirmed the device’s impressive IPX9 rating for water resistance — which will be a first for any foldable smartphone. Now, Zhou Yibao, Head of Oppo’s Find series, has announced that the Find N5 will support wireless charging — something its predecessor, the Find N3, lacked.

                        Anonymous, 22 Jan 2025That 5% loss might not even be considered a loss if we take... moreTrue. And people using this phone for it's intended purposes probably won't notice any difference de since I doubt most people will be really stressing it out

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                          Anonymous, 22 Jan 2025That 5% loss might not even be considered a loss if we take... more>by logic the 8 elite (8 cores) would termal throttle faster than the one with 7 cores

                          What logic? Doing the same work on more die area is more efficient and generates less heat. So doing the same work with 2 cores working 100% will be less efficient (draw more power and generate more heat) than when 4 cores do it at 50%. That’s how power curves work. And it’s also why anything is more reliable when not constantly driven to the limit, like for example a TVs backlight. That one when set to 75% instead of 100% will increase the lifespan more than the 33% increase in brightness when going from 75% to 100% (which leaves out the fact that brightness perception is logarithmic so the perceived difference is even less than 33%)

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                            Jzgerardus, 22 Jan 2025Now, I dont make these chips so I'm not going to prete... moreIf one core is broken then clocking down the other cores does not fix the broken one.

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                              • 22 Jan 2025

                              If you believed the spec war android fanboys from around 2013, then this would have to be worse than the Helio G36, because the G36 has 8 cores and this Snapdragon only has 7 cores. Luckily, common knowledge is more advanced now and it is more well known (at least in the tech community) that one can not judge a phone purely based on the number of CPU cores, the Gigabytes of RAM or the Megapixels of the camera. I‘m wondering when this realization sets in for the mAh of the battery, and when it will be understood that there are dozens of other factors influencing battery life other than the battery‘s mAh. I guess this is the last nonsensical spec war that is still held up by the tech community. Only other current spec wars I can think of is
                              1. screen to body ratio, but that one has been losing interest rapidly as even budget phones get punch holes and reduce the chin
                              2. display peak brightness, but that one at least has tangible advantages for HDR video. And I‘m rooting for 10000nit peak brightness on small highlights anyway so that can go on.

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                                Ouifuf, 22 Jan 2025That's honestly fine. No one buying this phone should ... moreThat 5% loss might not even be considered a loss if we take into account sustained performance, by logic the 8 elite (8 cores) would termal throttle faster than the one with 7 cores, meaning the 8 cores could perform worse than 7 cores at a faster pace simply because the latter will be generating less heat.

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                                  • 22 Jan 2025

                                  lovely excuses to sell less stuff for the same price considering the 8 elite is already super efficient.

                                  reduce max clocks by 0.2GHz, since cores need 0.1W by themselves when idle, and the low power version is done. thieves

                                    Jzgerardus, 22 Jan 2025Now, I dont make these chips so I'm not going to prete... moreFor Arm cores you need lower clocks from X cores and as many A7xx cores as you can get, you get more efficiency from them, thats why soc like D8400 beat all Arm based cores at same node when it come to efficiency.

                                    But for snapdragon 8 elite its different. Qualcomm custom cores are built different, those big cores (phoenix - L) are more efficient than mid cores (Phoenix - M) and these mid cores are just there for multicore, saving space and benchmark flexing, same as how intel use E cores before.

                                    So for this case as long as P cores are same soc wont be affected much by having less phoenix M or lower clocked Phoenix M, in theory by Adding more P cores even at lower clock would make soc more efficient (and more expensive )

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                                      Thank God i skipped the Find N5. I'm not buying $1000+ phone with faulty chipset

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                                        Jzgerardus, 22 Jan 2025Now, I dont make these chips so I'm not going to prete... moreMaybe this seven core one has a smaller size than the eight core one. Otherwise we can assume that this soc are just ones that weren't up to standards

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