Offering higher quality video streaming with more compression than other codec components, AV1 may be supported on Qualcomm’s next flagship chipset. New information indicates that Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 will have native AV1 decoding support.
AV1 support in Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
Some information has surfaced about Qualcomm’s model number SM8550 chipset. Since the model number of Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, the company’s current flagship chipset, is SM8450, the features that emerged with the new naming are thought to belong to the likely Snapdragon 8 Gen 2.
Qualcomm, which has not supported the AV1 codec in any chipset until now, wants to change this situation according to new information. It is stated that the chipset will support native AV1 decoding of the Adreno GPU.
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