Expected for several weeks now mainly as a harbinger of new smartphones featured at some major manufacturers, the Snapdragon 820 is also hoped as the redemptive angel of Qualcomm, the one who will put an end to the setbacks of his eldest 810.
The latest SoC of the American company is the so infamous Snapdragon 810. Cursed for some, with no history for others, it seems that the problems of overheating come primarily from the taming of the chip. Very powerful, it must give more difficulty to some than others. In any case, many manufacturers have trusted him, still continuing to equip their smartphones.
In itself, the 820, its successor, no longer has a lot of secrets for us, the manufacturer having revealed in particular a lot of information about the composition of the system on chip on the fact that 30 smartphones were preparing to receive it. One of the things we missed was his official presentation date. According to Sina Technologies, Qualcomm will reveal its new baby on November 10, six days from now in New York.
As a reminder, the four-core processor is already being advertised as a fuel economy, reducing energy consumption by 40% compared to the 810 while being 40% more powerful than it is and even 50% more powerful than the Exynos 7420, the benchmark. The Adreno 530 graphics chip will be partly responsible for this increase in power. The Snapdragon 820 will also be an opportunity to find Kryo CPU cores already seen on the 801 and 805 versions.
The processor will have a dual-ISP (Image Sensor Processor) capable of handling 14-bit sensors as well as a hybrid autofocus among others. Still, there is no doubt that Qualcomm is putting all its marbles on its future processor taking the hard place to pass after a model that left a slight smell of sulfur behind it.
Sina Technologies, the peddler of this unofficial information, also has yet to be questioned. Faced with Samsung’s Exynos 8890 and Huawei’s Kirin 950, do you think Qualcomm will be able to rise from the ashes caused by the Snapdragon 810 when some seem to want to bury the product prematurely, already citing overheating problems forcing the manufacturer to deny it.
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