The Oppo Reno 8 series is tipped to launch in India by the month of June 2022. The Reno 8 series will be the successor to the Reno 7 series, which was launched in China back in November 2021 and arrived in India earlier in 2022. The upcoming Reno 8 series will also have three models 一 the Oppo Reno 8 SE, Reno 8 Pro, and the vanilla Reno 8.
Among the three devices in the series, two devices will be powered by MediaTek Dimensity series chipsets and one will be powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset. This news comes from the popular tipster on the Chinese social media platform, Digital Chat Station.
Oppo Reno 8 Series Chipset Detail Leaked
According to the tipster, the Oppo Reno 8 will be the world’s first smartphone to feature Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 processor. This is an octa-core processor with four cores clocked at 2.36GHz and four cores clocked at 1.8GHz. The phone was previously spotted on the Geekbench scoring 712 and 2385 in single-core and multi-core tests.
Further, the tipster also says the other two Reno 8 series devices will be powered by Dimensity 1300 SoC and Dimensity 8100 SoC respectively. The Reno 8 SE could come with Dimensity 1300 and the Reno 8 Pro could feature the Dimensity 8100 SoC.
The 5nm based Dimensity 8100 is an octa-core processor with four premium Arm Cortex-A78 cores with a clock speed of up to 2.85GHz and four Arm Cortex-A55 cores clocked at 2GHz. The chipset is paired with Arm Mali G610 GPU to handle graphic and gaming content. The Dimensity 1300 is built on a 6nm process and it is also an octa-core chip with one ultra-core Arm Cortex-A78 clocked up to 3GHz, three Arm Cortex-A78 super cores and four Arm Cortex-A55 efficiency cores, along with a 9 core Arm Mali-G77 GPU.
Apart from the chipset, the Oppo Reno 8 is said to come with support for 80W fast charging, Adreno 662 GPU, AMOLED display, 120Hz refresh rate, and more. The Oppo Reno 8 series device with Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 processor is expected to launch this month in China and the device is also expected to launch in India in June.
