Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 outperforms Apple iPhone 14's chip performance, rumors about the Qualcomm flagship system on chip (SOC) boldly predicted ahead of its launch late this year.

Now that Apple has introduced its new iPhone 14 with an A16 chip, rumors claim that the go-to Android chip, the Snapdragon Gen 2, has what it takes to crash its performance.

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Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 vs. iPhone 14 Chip

As per the latest report by Android Central, the rumored Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is potentially getting the shimmer of the spotlight sometime in November as Qualcomm hosts its Snapdragon Summit event.

The well-known leaker on the Chinese microblogging site, Weibo, known as Digital Chat Station, shared some astounding details regarding the next-generation Qualcomm chipset.

The Weibo leaker shares that the new Snapdragon chip provides an impressive GPU performance. Thus, it should make future Android smartphones perform better overall usage, but most importantly in high-graphics tasks like gaming.

Digital Chat Station also suggests that the upcoming flagship chip could potentially trample what the new iPhone offers in terms of GPU. If the latest leak is to be believed, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is looking to crash the GPU power of the new A16 chip, which powers the high-end iPhone 14.

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CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 07: A view of the new iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus are displayed during an Apple special event on September 07, 2022 in Cupertino, California. Apple unveiled the new iPhone 14 as well as new versions of the Apple Watch, including the Apple Watch SE, a low-cost version of the popular timepiece that will start st $249.

According to a report by Notebook Check, the new A16 Bionic chip of Apple easily outperforms the single-core performance of the current Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1. The disparity between the two is pretty far at roughly 40%.

Meanwhile, in terms of GPU benchmark numbers, the iPhone 14 Pro chip impressively shows a 28% improvement in performance than the A15 Bionic. It is worth pointing out that the latter powers both the standard iPhone 14 and the new iPhone 14 Plus variant.

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Qualcomm's Snapdragon Gen 2: What We Know So Far

On top of that, the early leak has it that the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 debuts with two options, introducing an additional performance variant.

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Qualcomm President and COO Steve Mollenkopf takes part in a ceremony to unveil LG's new smart phone, the LG G2, during a global launch event in New York, August 7, 2013.

Digital Chat Station discloses that the renowned chip maker, which powers most high-end Android devices, is looking to offer two variants of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2.

The other version is set to offer "ultra-high frequency" once it starts powering Android phones by 2023.

Android Central notes that the new Snapdragon 8 variant reaches better clock speeds than its predecessor, the Snapdragon 8+ Gen. The "ultra-high frequency" chip is rumored to go as high as 3.5GHz. It sure is an improvement from the 3.2Ghz clock speeds of Qualcomm chip that latest flagships offer.

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