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Home/News/The OnePlus 13’s personalized Snapdragon chip appears to be more efficient than the Apple A18 Pro.
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The OnePlus 13’s personalized Snapdragon chip appears to be more efficient than the Apple A18 Pro.

Robert Haba
Nov 25, 20242 min read
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  • With the next-generation Snapdragon flagship CPU around the corner, the OnePlus 13 is anticipated to come soon.
  • According to a OnePlus employee, the modified version of the SoC can outperform the Apple A18 Pro in terms of efficiency, even though the chipset's name is still unknown.
  • At the Snapdragon Summit, Qualcomm will formally unveil its next-generation flagship smartphone SoC.

With the next-generation Snapdragon flagship CPU around the corner, the OnePlus 13 is anticipated to come soon. According to a OnePlus employee, the modified version of the SoC can outperform the Apple A18 Pro in terms of efficiency, even though the chipset’s name is still unknown.

At the Snapdragon Summit, Qualcomm will formally unveil its next-generation flagship smartphone SoC. The OnePlus 13 is anticipated to be one of the first smartphones to use the technology, though it is still unknown if it will be called Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, Snapdragon 8 Extreme Edition, or something else.

Although OnePlus has not given away many details regarding its next flagship phone, Cai Zuxuan, an employee, hinted on Weibo that it will use a modified Snapdragon chip. The employee’s assertion that the customized SoC will provide better energy efficiency is more intriguing.

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More precisely, the employee asserts that the custom Snapdragon SoC can outperform the Apple A18 Pro in terms of power efficiency, citing internal statistics from OnePlus. According to Cai Zuxuan, this would force Qualcomm to take the top slot once again.

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Additionally, a “public version,” which is allegedly inferior than the custom SoC, is mentioned in Cai Zuxuan’s Weibo post. There have been previous mentions of two distinct iterations of what is allegedly the Snapdragon 8 Extreme Edition. In August, a SoC datasheet that appeared legitimate was released, mentioning the SM8750 and SM8750P versions.

The SM8750P was thought to be a more expensive model among them; the letter “P” was presumably an acronym for “Performance.” Qualcomm has been using its previous flagship SoCs in a similar manner. Consider the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 for the Galaxy. The normal SoC is significantly overclocked in this version. Later, Nubia smartphones came with the same overclocked processor, which now leads the AnTuTu benchmark.

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Cai Zuxuan, however, indicates that this time, efficiency will be given a lot of weight in addition to performance. The good news is that October 21, which is not too far away, is when Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit will begin. In order to find out how Qualcomm’s 3 nm smartphone chip stacks up against the competition, you do not have to wait.

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