Rumors about the Galaxy Tab S8 series have resurfaced, this time revealing the kitchen runway that Samsung has embedded in it. Horror! This tablet is said to be using the Snapdragon 898 chipset.
The news was released by leaker Ice Universe on his Twitter account. In his tweet, he confirmed that the three variants of the Galaxy Tab S8 will not be powered by the Exynos 2200, all of which will carry Qualcomm's latest chipset.
Maybe because it uses Snapdragon 898 so the Galaxy Tab S8 series is absent from the last Galaxy Unpacked. Last year, the Galaxy Tab S7 series was announced along with the releases of the Galaxy Note 20 and Galaxy Z Fold 2.
All Snapdragon 898, Not Exynos2200 https://t.co/0mnJ95hNvT
— Ice universe (@UniverseIce) August 19, 2021
Snapdragon 898 itself will be launched by Qualcomm in December. It is likely that the Galaxy Tab S8 will be born at the same time as the Galaxy S22 at the beginning of next year.
Snapdragon 898 will be Qualcomm's hottest chipset as it brings significant improvements. Based on leaks that have recently circulated, the chipset which has the model number SM8450 will use Samsung's 4nm technology.
The chipset is currently being tested. From the tests carried out, the performance increased by 20% from Snapdragon 888.
Snapdragon 898 already uses a new architecture, namely ARMv9. The main core in the system on a chip (SoC) is the Kryo 780 with a speed of around 3.09GHz.
The main CPU core will be based on the ARM Cortex-X2 which is the successor to the Cortex-X1 used in Snapdragon 888's Kryo 680. The speed of this new core according to ARM is 16% faster than its predecessor.
For comparison, the Snapdragon 888 main core has a maximum speed of 2.84GHz, while the faster Snapdragon 888 Plus variant has a maximum speed of 2.995GHz, and the performance comparison between the two is almost 10%. So the promised 16% increase is significant.
Not only the main core uses the new ARM architecture, but also other cores, which means they will have increased performance as well. Regarding the GPU, the Adreno 730 should be used, which is expected to have a significant improvement compared to its predecessor Adreno 660.