Qualcomm has already taken the wraps off its latest flagship SoC, the Snapdragon 820. The SoC's preview benchmark results show that it comes packed with impressive performance and top-of-the-line graphics.
2015 has not been a good year for the leading SoC developer. The Snapdragon 810, which was Qualcomm's very first ARMv8 AArch64-capable SoC, faced issues with overheating. But Qualcomm says such issues are going to be a thing of the past with the arrival of the new SoC.
It is anticipated that at least 60 phones and tablets will rock the Snapdragon 820 in the coming year. Among the devices is the hotly awaited Samsung Galaxy S7.
What Comprises the Snapdragon 820?
The Snapdragon 820 is packed with the Adreno 530 GPU, newly developed custom 2.2 GHz quad-core CPU (Kryo), new ISP (Spectra), new DSP (Hexagon 680) and new LTE modem (X12).
The quad-core CPU managed to notch two high-performance cores (clocked at 2,150 MHz) and two low-power cores (clocked at 1,593 MHz).
Snapdragon 820 is built on 14 nm architecture, which suggests that users of devices which run the SoC will no longer experience thermal throttling or overheating troubles.
What's more, 820 has the capacity to support Vulkan and OpenGL ES 3.1 + AEP in terms of graphics.
This SoC is compatible with Android 6.0 OS. Snapdragon 810 uses the version 5.0.2 of Android.
Public Test Results
Here is a summary of the public test results for this new SoC from Qualcomm:
Consumes lesser power – The preview made by AnandTech revealed that Snapdragon 820 consumes 30 percent less power (0.65) as compared with its forerunner (0.92), in spite of the fact that 820 is way faster than 810.
Impressive graphics performance – The Snapdragon 820 notched more impressive graphics performance as highly compared with 810.
Memory controller is more remarkable – The new SoC also scored higher than the forerunner. This will make it possible to play high-resolution games and watch 4K videos without trouble.
Much more improved performance – Snapdragon 820’s custom Kryo cores outpaced the Cortex-A57 cores of 810.
You can check out how Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820 performed through this diagram below shared by Tom’s Hardware.
