Motorola Edge X30 launched today in China, becoming the first smartphone powered by Qualcomm’s latest and greatest Snapdragon 8 Gen 1.

The 4nm-based SoC has been the talk of the town for quite some time, with people debating the amount of performance increase that can be expected from the new chip. Today, we have the answer for you.

Motorola officially announced various benchmark scores of the Latest Moto Edge X30 at the launch event. The smartphone becomes the first to break one million points, at 1,061,361 points on AnTuTu, a known smartphone benchmarking platform. When uploaded to AnTuTu’s database, Moto Edge X30 will dethrone the Black Shark 4S Pro, which currently sits at the top with 875,382.

Compared to the Snapdragon 888, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 gains about 21% overall performance. This sizable performance gain can be credited to a couple of factors: the SD 8 Gen 1 being the first SoC built on Samsung‘s 4nm process while adopting the ARM v9 architecture. The CPU on board is a “1+3+8” architecture octa-core unit, with Cortex-X2 clocking in at 3Ghz, three Cortex-A710 cores running at 2.5Ghz, and 4 Cortex-A510 efficiency cores with a frequency of 1.8Ghz.

On the GPU side of things, Motorola has claimed that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 can reach 267fps in GFX Manhattan 3.0, which is about 60% higher than the 169fps of Snapdragon 888. This is possible due to the new Adreno 730 GPU, which is about 30% more powerful while being 25% more energy efficient than the previous generation (via).

After its official Chinese launch, the Motorola Edge X30 is expected to hit the global market under the Motorola Edge 30 Ultra moniker, so stay tuned as we will be covering any notable news regarding the new handset.

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Earlier today (3rd December 2021), Motorola and one of its official teased their upcoming flagship smartphone with Qualcomm’s newly announced Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 SoC. The teaser highlighted the device’s performance, with the Edge X30 being the first to achieve a 1 million score on AnTuTu.

The Lenovo owned brand shared the news on its official Weibo account (a Chinese microblogging website). This was even shared by Lenovo smartphone department’s General Manager, Chen Jin. Looking at the teaser poster, the company showcased the impressive feat of the Edge X30 series’ score hitting 1 million score on AnTuTu, which is a known smartphone benchmarking platform. Chen Jin stated that improvements in performance arrives at a time where VR technology is becoming more popular and the world is shifting towards the metaverse.

In other words, the additional horsepower is more than welcomed. Talking about the chip that offers this great score, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 was just announced earlier this week and arrives with a sizeable 20 percent increase in CPU performance and 30 percent increase in GPU performance over the last gen’s Snapdragon 888 SoC. Furthermore, even its energy efficiency is raised by 25 percent over its predecessor. Just now, AnTuTu had released the November 2021 list of best performing flagship phones, which revealed some interesting details. Even with the refreshed Qualcomm Snapdragon 888+ chipset, the highest score recorded didn’t even cross the 900,000 mark.

Notably, with the launch being just under a week away, Motorola has also announced that it will be giving out 100 Edge X30 series smartphone to Weibo users in China. The company will be giving out 10 units of the upcoming model everyday up till the December 9 launch event. During this event, the brand will be giving out the remaining 30 units altogether. To enter the giveaway, Weibo users had to report or share the new teasers that have been surfacing on the platform.

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Qualcomm has confirmed that its next-gen flagship mobile SoC will be called Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. The American chipmaker has even revealed that this silicon will be officially announced on November 30. Ahead of that, the chipset gets benchmarked on AnTuTu with over a million points.

The upcoming Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 has become the first Qualcomm mobile SoC to cross 1 million points (10,35,020 points) on AnTuTu Benchmark. This information comes from a screenshot shared by a Weibo profile called 科技晚8点. Unfortunately, the picture does not show the breakdown of the score in different categories. 

It is worth noting that even the newly unveiled MediaTek Dimensity 9000 SoC scores over a million points (10,07,396 points) on AnTuTu Benchmark. However, it’s not as high as that of the yet-to-be-announced Snapdragon silicon. For comparison, last-gen Qualcomm and MediaTek chipsets can score around 850K (Snapdragon 888) and 690K (Dimensity 1200) respectively.

Though there’s still a performance difference between the two, they are better than their predecessors in terms of scores. Anyway, at the end of the day, benchmarks only tell half the story. The real-world performance depends on the smartphone’s hardware and software optimizations.

Having said that, what are your expectations of the forthcoming premium Android phones that will be featuring Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 and Dimensity 9000? Share your thoughts in the comment section below.

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