Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus announced: 3GHz clock speed, 32 TOPS AI performance and all you need to know

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus: Qualcomm has announced its Snapdragon 888 Plus SoC for flagship phones at MWC 2021, and the new processor is an upgrade over its Snapdragon 888 SoC. The new SoC would contain a Qualcomm Kyro 680 CPU Prime core which would offer an increased clock speed of up to 3.0 GHz. Not only that but it would also contain the 6th generation Qualcomm AI Engine, offering an AI performance of up to 32 Tera Operations Per Second or 32 TOPS. This, Qualcomm has said, is over a 20% improvement. Apart from this, the newly announced SoC is more or less similar to its sibling that had been launched in December 2020. With the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus, the company is aiming to target flagship phones that will be launched in the second half of the year.

A major difference between the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus is that the new SoC has the sixth-gen Qualcomm Hexagon 780 AI processor that would be able to deliver 32 TOPS as compared to 26 TOPS on the previous model. And the increased core clock speed is also a key upgrade.