The latest news is that yesterday, Qualcomm and Tencent Games reached a strategic cooperation, will carry out comprehensive strategic cooperation in the field of games. These include Qualcomm® OpteronTM-based mobile gaming terminals, game content and performance optimization, Snapdragon Elite Gaming feature enhancements, cloud gaming, AR/VR, 5G game use case development and more. Qualcomm President Cristiano Amon and China's Chairman Meng Pu attended the signing ceremony, which shows the importance and weight of cooperation.

On the same day, Black Shark Game 2 Pro was released in Beijing, and the new product was equipped with Qualcomm Xiaolong 855Plus platform. Plus a week ago, ROG Players released the second generation ROG Phone in Beijing - ROG Game Phone 2 (Tencent Game Depth Customization) The world's first Qualcomm Snapdragon 855+ mobile platform, the Red Devils 3 esport mobile phone also announced the upgrade of the Snapdragon 855 Plus platform earlier, at one time, Snapdragon 855 Plus brushed the entire game mobile phone camp.

Last year, Qualcomm first appeared in the venue of ChinaJoy, which was regarded as the symbol of its mobile game. It also means that the game market began to shift from the PC to the mobile. In the Snapdragon 855 released last year, support for the new Snapdragon Elite Gaming experience has been achieved.

The 2019 ChinaJoy, which will open on August 2nd, will be the full line of the Snapdragon game camp, and the lineup will be even stronger. This year, Qualcomm Xiaolong will join hands with mobile game industry partners including vivo, Black Shark, Nubian, Asus, Tencent Games, OnePlus, OPPO and Xiaomi. In 2019 ChinaJoy will bring the coolest players to the world. The mobile game feast, which will be unveiled with the latest mobile platform Snapdragon 855 Plus.

At the media communication meeting held today, Hou Mingjuan, vice president of Qualcomm Global, said that this year Qualcomm will create the Qualcomm Dragon Theme Pavilion at the E4 Pavilion of Shanghai New International Expo Center, which will showcase the latest achievements in the game. The 12,000-square-meter 骁龙馆 is also The largest scale exhibition hall in ChinaJoy.

Software and hardware synergies significantly improve game performance and reduce carton by 90%

In mid-July, Qualcomm introduced the Snapdragon 855 Plus mobile platform to deliver enhanced performance and support leading multi-gigabit 5G, gaming, AI and XR experiences. The platform's performance enhancements bring the gaming experience to a whole new level, especially in 5G scenes, which will bring the ultimate Snapdragon Elite Gaming experience.

In today's media communication meeting, Qualcomm product marketing director Qin Muyun introduced the new flagship platform of Snapdragon 855 Plus to enhance the game experience and achieve a significant improvement in game performance.

In terms of hardware, the main frequency of the Snapdragon 855 Plus reaches 2.96GHz (骁 855 bit 2.84GHz), and the performance of the GPU is increased by 15%. In Qin Muyun's view, the performance of the GPU is not easy to improve, and the level of 15% is close. The level of improvement of the first generation is to achieve better support for the game in graphics rendering speed.

The Snapdragon 855Plus supports UFS3.0, with a 67% increase in read speed and a 31% increase in write speed, ensuring a smooth experience for large games. Qin Muyun said that most mobile phones currently only support UFS2.1. UFS was first launched on the Snapdragon 855. Currently, it supports one plus seven series, and there will be more smartphones based on the Snapdragon platform in the second half of this year. Both will support UFS3.0.

The first Vulkan 1.1 for mobile game support also ensures that the GPU's processing power is fully utilized during the game, while achieving a 20% reduction in power consumption.

For example, the Adreno 640 GPU can easily handle the demanding physical rendering (PBR) workloads, up to 20% performance improvement, and achieve post-processing of the movie.

The addition of a digital processing unit (DPU) can bring richer color brightness and depth to the game's timelines, providing a more realistic and immersive gaming experience.

On the software side, Qualcomm's Snapdragon Elite Gaming platform also includes system-level game-cart optimization solutions, game engine optimization for TOP10 games, game anti-cheat extensions, fast game loading optimization, stereo audio plug-ins, network latency management, wireless / Enhanced audio and other features.

For example, in Caton optimization, the Snapdragon 855 Plus solution can reduce up to 90% of the stagnation, suitable for 30FPS game cradle optimization.

In the fast loading optimization, the game startup speed is increased by 10% through the machine learning game classification scheme and the system level acceleration program game loading optimization.

In addition, Qualcomm has partnered with top game publishers and developers such as Tencent Games, Unity, and Netease to optimize, train, feature and support functions, business development and marketing for the Snapdragon platform.

In addition to mobile games, the Snapdragon 855 Plus also fully supports XR, 5G, and AI. Qin Muyun said that Snapdragon will enhance the user's gaming experience through continuous innovation.