By HIGHLIGHTS Snapdragon 888 scores 26% more than Snapdragon 865 on OnePlus 8T Snapdragon 888-powered smartphones to launch in early 2021 Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 was announced at the Snapdragon Tech Summit 2020 earlier in December Qualcomm has released synthetic benchmark results of its new flagship Snapdragon 888 processor since reviewers were not able to get their hands on a reference device at the recently concluded Snapdragon Tech Summit 2020. The chip-maker announced the Snapdragon 888 on the first day of the summit as it gave a glimpse of what’s coming to the flagship smartphones of 2021. Qualcomm conducted a series of synthetic benchmark tests on a reference design powered by the Snapdragon 888 chip and looks like we have yet another winner at our hands. However, Qualcomm reiterated its stand on using benchmark apps as it believes that “they only measure a subset of use cases and fail to capture the wide array of experiences enabled by Snapdragon, including connectivity, photography, videography, audio, battery life and charging speeds, and more.”