FP Personal 01/07/2022 14:46:55 IST
Oppo is gearing up to release its latest iteration of the Reno series on July 21st. Although the company has confirmed that the Reno 8 and Reno 8 Pro will be launched in India in a couple of weeks, there has been no confirmation around the dates. An online informant has suggested the launch would take place on July 21st.
The Reno 8 Pro includes the MariSilicon X NPU a neural processing unit and supports 4K ultra-night videography. The Chinese version of the Reno 8 Pro is powered by a Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 chipset, but the Indian model will likely use the MediaTek Dimensity 8100-Max SoC, Moneycontrol reported.
For those who don’t know, the Chinese smartphone maker had announced this chip in December 2021 for its flagship Find X series. Now, this same NPU will also go to the Reno 8 series. there were rumors that they had revealed this information before, the brand has officially shared the news along with some improvements to its MariSilicon X platform. According to official notes, the 6 nm MariSilicon X NPU will help bring end-to-end imaging solutions to extreme in the Reno 8 series.
Thanks to proprietary algorithms, the company has developed a new way to better represent Indian skin tones accurately and even create bokeh portrait videos. Oppo’s AI can even distinguish between skin blemishes and beauty blemishes, while intelligently applying a different level of skin beautification and softening depending on the age and gender of the skin. subject. Its optimizations for the Indian market will also help improve HDR performance in wide exposure photographs without user intervention.
Speaking of the NPU itself, the company took 3 years to develop the chipset and consisted of over 400 patent applications. It has 3.6 billion transistors and can perform up to 18 trillion operations per second (18 TOPS). It is based on the 6 nm process and is also capable of processing real-time lossless AI in Bayer’s RAW domain with images taken from the 50 MP Sony IMX766 main camera.
As for the other specs, we can expect the normal Oppo Reno 8 to come with a 6.43-inch AMOLED display and a 120 Hz refresh rate. The power supply of the device will be a MediaTek Dimensity 1300 SoC, the 50MP main sensor with NPU support, up to 256 GB of UFS 3.1 storage and a 4,500 mAh battery that offers a fast 80 W Super Flash Charge.
OPPO is expected to confirm more details as we approach the release date.