X flagship device from OPPO

 

The following Find X flagship device from OPPO will be among the first to run on the Premium Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Mobile Platform.

• One of the first smartphones to use the Premium Snapdragon® 8 Gen 2 Mobile Platform is OPPO's upcoming Find X flagship model.

• OPPO presented its most recent advancements in mobile ray tracing technology at the Snapdragon Summit 2022. Developers will be able to apply ultra-realistic ray tracing optical effects on mobile devices more quickly thanks to the new approach.

• Working with Qualcomm and Google, OPPO has successfully improved energy efficiency in AI processing by introducing Google Cloud Vertex AI NAS technology to smartphones for the first time.

HAWAII, November 16, 2022, OPPO announced a partnership with Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. in ray tracing graphics for mobile devices today on stage at the Snapdragon Summit 2022. Since the early stages of developing the next generation of drivers, the two firms have been working together. Thanks to the tremendous work, when the flagship Snapdragon® 8 Gen 2 Mobile Platform is released, customers will benefit from a fully optimized hardware-based ray tracing functionality. At the Snapdragon Summit, OPPO also showcased the innovations made possible by its partnerships with Qualcomm Technologies and Google, including the first Smartphone implementation of Google NAS (Google Vertex AI Neural Architecture Search). The new approach will improve the latency and energy efficiency of mobile devices' AI processing.

The newest premium Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Mobile Platform has just been released, and OPPO, a long-time partner of Qualcomm Technologies, has also announced that it will be used in its upcoming Find X flagship devices. This will significantly improve the video, gaming, and connectivity experiences for mobile users all over the world.

Pete Lau, Senior Vice President and Chief Product Officer of OPPO, said: "The cooperation between Qualcomm Technologies and OPPO has reached a new stage. We've worked together to do research in a variety of cutting-edge technology areas that will help develop and implement revolutionary mobile technologies. By combining OPPO's extensive expertise in mobile graphics and AI with the formidable capabilities of the new flagship Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, Qualcomm Technologies and OPPO have made a breakthrough in mobile ray tracing technology and the first-ever delivered Google NAS to smartphones. We look forward to growing our cooperation with Qualcomm Technologies as we reinvent the Smartphone experience and put more cutting-edge technology in the hands of millions of consumers across the world."

Ziad Asghar, Vice President of Product Management at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., expressed his excitement about working with OPPO to offer hardware-accelerated ray tracing to mobile gaming. The partnership between Qualcomm Technologies and OPPO in this area enables game developers to fully exploit desktop-level quality ray tracing to provide the highest visual fidelity, lifelike aliasing free shadows, reflections on curved surfaces, and global illumination to unlock the next-generation gaming experience on mobile, all in real-time at usable frame rate. This huge development for the mobile gaming environment, which spans the full render stack, is made possible by the partnership. We are eager to work with OPPO more closely as we explore the potential for innovation to reach mobile devices using top-tier Snapdragon processors.

Through underlying technological improvements, OPPO and Qualcomm Technologies bring innovations in mobile graphics processing and artificial intelligence.

 

In order to execute software improvements based on the latest generation Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Mobile Platform, OPPO has partnered with Qualcomm Technologies. OPPO is the first Smartphone maker to offer an open-sourced ray tracing solution for mobile. These improvements make it possible for mobile devices to run complicated, expansive gaming sceneries using OPPO's ray tracing technology.

Ray tracing technology was made available to attendees of the Snapdragon Summit 2022 via live gaming demos, making OPPO the only Smartphone maker to show off such technology on devices using the premium Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Mobile Platform.

 

Top mobile games are capable of running at a constant 60 frames per second while delivering lifelike soft shadows and reflections for the best possible visual realism when playing on a Smartphone with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Mobile Platform with numerous ray tracing effects enabled. Ray tracing render efficiency rose by a factor of 5 in comparison to earlier software-only generations, and the CPU burden was decreased by 90%1. With the help of these developments, the mobile gaming industry will be able to move away from the reliance on software simulation to produce ray tracing effects and instead provide cutting-edge, ultra-realistic lighting to intricate, large-scale game sceneries on mobile devices.

 

In order to use ray tracing technology on mobile devices, OPPO was the first Smartphone maker to do so. With the introduction of the PhysRay SDK, OPPO's first open-sourced ray tracing solution for mobile devices, the company has been establishing an open environment around the technology since 2020. This ecosystem connects creators, game developers, and platforms for game engine development. OPPO has worked to modify the PhysRay engine for improved compatibility with various hardware and software combinations in order to better meet the diverse demands of developers.

When implementing ray tracing on mobile devices, the Open, Convenient, Adaptive, and Balance ray tracing solution serves as a crucial link between hardware and software.

 

Along with collaborating on mobile ray tracing technologies, OPPO has been collaborating with Qualcomm Technologies and Google to advance mobile devices' potential AI capabilities. In accordance with the partnership, OPPO has for the first time successfully incorporated the hardware power reward into Google NAS. OPPO's use of AI delivers a 27% decrease in the power of the target identification algorithm and a 40% reduction in computation latency through modifications to the AI algorithms based on the unique chip characteristics. Together, these advancements will speed up the training of AI models while enhancing their hardware compatibility and energy efficiency2.

OPPO and Qualcomm Technology are working together on "Inspiration Ahead" to incorporate more cutting-edge technology into mobile handsets.

 

As part of their ongoing relationship, OPPO and Qualcomm Technologies are working on ray tracing technology and artificial intelligence. Numerous OPPO smartphones use premier Snapdragon mobile platforms, allowing more users across the world to enjoy 5G mobile. One of the first smartphones to employ the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 CPU in 2022 was the premium OPPO Find X5 Pro, which provided previously unheard-of connectivity, AI, gaming, video, audio, and security experiences. Only two of the many smartphones that OPPO has previously created that employ Snapdragon 5G mobile platforms are the Find X3 Series and Reno6 Series.

In order to give customers across the world better experiences with cutting-edge technology on mobile devices, OPPO will keep working openly with industry leaders like Qualcomm Technologies under its brand promise of "Inspiration Ahead."

 

¹ Data is based on experiments carried out in a lab setting by OPPO. Depending on the devices and situations, actual rendering efficiency, CPU burden, and performance may change.

 

² Data is based on experiments carried out in a lab setting by OPPO. Depending on the particular hardware and application, actual power consumption and delay may differ.