Handset maker Oppo on Wednesday became the first smartphone OEM to officially announce that its upcoming flagship Find X smartphone will be powered by the top-tier Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor that has just been announced by the US-based chip-making giant.
The top-tier processor will be adopted by global smartphone players, including OnePlus, Oppo, Redmi, Asus Republic of Gamers, Honor, Motorola, nubia, Sharp, Sony Corporation, Xiaomi and ZTE, among others, Qualcomm has already announced. The first smartphones to launch with Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 are expected by the end of this year. The upcoming Vivo X90 Pro+ is also rumoured to come with Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor.
"Drawing on Oppo’s extensive experience in mobile graphics and AI, and the powerful capabilities of the new flagship Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, Oppo and Qualcomm Technologies have delivered a breakthrough in mobile ray tracing technology and brought Google NAS to smartphone for the first time," Pete Lau, Senior Vice President and Chief Product Officer, Oppo, said in a statement.
"The era of mobile ray tracing is 🔛! Our next Find X flagship smartphone will be one of the firsts to be powered by the @Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Mobile Platform," Oppo also tweeted.
The smartphone brand has collaborated with Qualcomm Technologies to conduct software optimisations based on the new generation Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Mobile Platform. These optimisations enable Oppo's ray tracing technology to be applied to complex, large-scale game scenes on mobile devices.
Running on a device powered by Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Mobile Platform, with multiple ray tracing effects turned on, top mobile games can run at a steady 60 FPS while providing life-like soft shadows and reflections for the highest gaming visual quality.
To recall, the Oppo Find X5 Pro flagship smartphone was one of the first smartphones to be powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1.