Weekly poll: do flagship chipsets still matter?

This week Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. The week before MediaTek announced its Dimensity 9200. And, of course, Apple’s iPhone 14 series came out recently, but only the Pros got the new chipset. The next generation flagship chips are ready to prove their mettle in benchmarks – but do flagship chipsets even matter ?

After years of impressive improvements smartphone chipsets are showing no signs of slowing down. Right now ray tracing support is becoming standard on high-end GPUs and the AI accelerators are improving by leaps and bounds. CPU efficiency is going up too. However,…