OPPO Reno 8 tipped to be the first phone with Snapdragon 7 Gen1 chipset

Published On: April 14, 2022

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OPPO Reno 8 is tipped to be the first to ship with Snapdragon 7 Gen1 chipset
Reno 8 series may also have models with a high-end MediaTek Dimensity chipset paired with MariSilicon X ISP.
The lineup may debut in China in May.

OPPO Reno 7 series debuted in India in February as successors to the Reno 6 lineup. From the looks of it, the company could be working on a successor — the Reno 8, which may debut next month in China. Now, noted tipster DigitalChatStation claims the Reno 8 will be the first to ship with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen1 chipset, which will be the latest 7-series chipset from the chipmaker, sitting just below the Snapdragon 8 Gen1 SoC. This should make the Reno 8 series one of the first to feature the Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 chipset.

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Furthermore, the Reno 8 series may also have models with a high-end MediaTek Dimensity chipset paired with MariSilicon X ISP, says Digital Chat Station. The tipster has also revealed some key specifications of one particular model in the series, the PGAM10. However, the exact moniker hasn’t been revealed.

OPPO Reno 8 specifications

The PGAM10 model is said to sport a 6.55-inch OLED display with a punch-hole cutout and a 120Hz refresh rate. It will be powered by the Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 with LPDDR5 RAM and UFS 3.1 storage. The phone packs a 4,500mAh battery with 80W fast charging support. The charging solution could be the same as the one seen on the OnePlus 10 Pro.

Moving to optics, the Reno 8 series will have triple cameras on the back, with a 50MP primary Sony IMX766 sensor, an 8MP ultra-wide sensor and a 2MP third sensor. It is said to get a 32MP snapper on the front for video chats and selfies. It will have an in-display fingerprint sensor for security.

The Snapdragon 7 Gen1 chipset is said to feature four Cortex-A710 and four A510 cores. It is skipping the X2 core of the Snapdragon 8 Gen1 SoC. It will be aided by the next-gen Adreno GPU for graphics.

Which MediaTek chipsets will power the Reno 8 series models is not known yet but we can speculate it could be the Dimensity 8000/8100 since they come closest to the Snapdragon counterpoint. The said chipsets use the older A78 and A55 cores and a new Mali-G610 GPU.