FIRST Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Phone - BENCHMARK & REVIEW!

Even if you have absolutely no intention at all of buying this phone keep watching this video, because right now this is the most powerful phone you can buy with a small Asterix. This is the new IQ 11 and it's the first phone to launch - or at least for me, to get my hands on with the brand spanking new Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip. That's the new flagship processor. The Qualcomm showed off just a few weeks ago in Hawaii. At their Snapdragon Summit, so quicker than you can say, Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 IQ slapped the new chip in this new flagship phone.

And if you haven't heard of IQ, which you may not have they're, actually a sub brand of Vivo, with a slightly more gaming and performance Focus, but also available in different markets, but hold your horses before you jump to the next video.

The reason I'm telling you about this is because it is the first phone that I can actually properly test with that New Gen 2 chip, so we can basically find out just how fast pretty much all 2023 Android Flagship phones will be with this guy. Of course we have some variables with materials and Cooling and software and RAM, but the likes of the Galaxy s23, the oppos X6 Pro the OnePlus 11 xiaomi 13. Those sort of things they're likely to all be powered by the same chip as well. But first there is a lot more to this iq11 than just the new chip, because we also get new and faster LP ddr5x RAM and also much faster and also more efficient, ufs4 storage, so new chip faster Ram, faster storage and also a brand new screen.

This is actually really interesting. This is using the Samsung E6 AMOLED and if you are into your tech, specs and you'll be familiar with the E5, which was in pretty much all Android phones in 2022. But now we have the new E6, which actually seems to be quite a big upgrade if you take the previous gen one of these, the IQ 10, which came out just in July 2022, so only a few months ago, that was a full HD 120hz screen. This is now Quad, HD, 144, and actually, as far as I know, this is the only phone to offer quality and 144hz refresh. It'S also boosted the peak brightness from 15 up to 1800 nits, the dimming frequency or pwm is now 1440 Hertz.

So a little bit less eye strain and possibly most exciting of all. It'S an ltp0 3.0 display, which is the next gen of a dab, active, refresh rate which can save more power and actually generate new frames. Potentially, making everything, including A Game's, look and feel even smoother. That'S a pretty hefty upgrade and, as I say, what we're seeing here is what we're likely to see on pretty much all upcoming Android flagships.

Elsewhere we get a good sized 5 000 million power battery with 120 watt fast charging, the stereo speakers sound great and it supports Snapdragon sound which unlocks some tasty lossless and also low latency audio for gaming, no headphone jack or microSD card slots. Sadly, but it is a very smart slim and light design and actually has someone of a passing resemblance to the Vivo x80 there's. Definitely some cross-pollinated DNA going on there I mean it is a sub brand of Vivo, which itself is actually a sub brand of BBK Electronics, which also own Oppo, which also in OnePlus anyway. I'M not complaining. It's still a lovely phone really Slim with a big 6.8 inch screen.

However, I'm a bit disappointed, because this black version is a bit dull. Okay, it's very dull, but what I would say if you are thinking about buying this is definitely get it in the other. Color the one with the stripe, because it looks way cooler than that around the back. We have this triple camera system, with a 50 megapixel main lens, a 12 megapixel Ultra wide and a 12 megapixel telephoto, plus a 60 megapixel camera around the front and overall it is a solid setup, but the main gn5 sensor isn't particularly new uh.

Nor are we getting any of that crazy, one-inch sensors. That's coming to the new Vivo X90 Pro that's just been announced, and despite this new chip supporting crazy 4K 120 or 8K 60 video resolutions, this is still 4k16 ak-30. This is the new IQ. 11 What do you think it's not even coming to the UK, which is a shame. It's still a very capable camera and IQ have made some nice improvements, particularly in reducing shutter lag, and so fast impressions are pretty good and finally, in terms of software, This ship's running Android, 13 and fun touch OS on top, which is nice and fast.

Although there is a hefty amount of bloatware and also stop this, we only get two years of major Android updates. The fact that OnePlus has now jumped up to four years matching Samsung and Apple's, also at the sort of top end of that two years of Android updates, is just not good enough anymore. In my opinion, that's a bit disappointing. Okay, enough of all that enough, waffling. Let'S get to the good bit, let's find out just how fast this phone with the new 8 Gen 2 chip really is, and if it makes that much of a difference, if you really should care well, here are my geekbench, 5 and 3dmark Wildlife.

Extreme stress test results and for some context, let's bring in the Galaxy s22 Ultra with the Snapdragon 8 gen 1 and then also the xiaomi 12T Pro with the Snapdragon 8 plus gen 1. In single core we're looking at about a 10 optic over the 8 plus gen 1 and about 20 over the original 8gen one, although it is more significant in multi-core, with a 40 bump on the original and about 12 bump from the 8 plus.