The Cortex-A715 and the redesigned A510 will make the processors more efficient than their predecessors, but they won’t necessarily become faster.
Assuming these are new cores, we can expect only small performance gains, but solid efficiency improvements – the A715 is 5% faster and 20% more efficient than the A710. Even the A510 core got a small redesign, not a huge change, but it’s 5% more efficient.
This year’s Snapdragon Summit is about a month or so away, where the next Snapdragon 8 generation model is expected to be brought out, while the 7 generation series of chips will probably show up at another launch event.
It may be that the details of the Snapdragon 7 Gen2 have surfaced, and so far, the Snapdragon 7 has only been used in a few phones, far from the popularity of the previous 700-series chips. And then Qualcomm has a new 7-series chip, the SM7475, although its place in the Snapdragon family is less clear. This could be the Snapdragon 7 Gen 2, or it could be called the 7+ Gen 1.
The CPU contains 1 Prime, 3 Gold, and 4 Silver cores, with leaker Roland Quandt reporting the peak core frequencies for the combination of these cores.
Prime cores will run at around 2.4GHz, Gold cores will have about the same peak frequency, and Silver cores will go up to 1.8GHz. This is almost the same frequency as the 7th generation: 2.4GHz Prime, 2.36GHz Gold and 1.8GHz Silver.
Unfortunately, we don’t have details on the actual hardware yet, and if this is a next-gen chipset, it should use the new core design. This means that the Prime and Gold cores will use the Cortex-A715, and the Silver cores will use the improved A510. The first-gen 7 used the old Cortex-A710 for Prime and Gold, and the A510 for Silver.
The Cortex-A715 and the redesigned A510 will make the processors more efficient than their predecessors, but they won’t necessarily become faster.
Assuming these are new cores, we can expect only small performance gains, but solid efficiency improvements – the A715 is 5% faster and 20% more efficient than the A710. Even the A510 core got a small redesign, not a huge change, but it’s 5% more efficient.
This year’s Snapdragon Summit is about a month or so away, where the next Snapdragon 8 generation model is expected to be brought out, while the 7 generation series of chips will probably show up at another launch event.
