Awaiting its arrival in the android high end of 2016, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820 has just undergone new tests whose results already herald impressive performance.
Qualcomm’s new Soc is expected to arrive as early as next month at the heart of Xiaomi Mi5, but in the meantime, it is being tested from all sides. The Anandtech website has just delivered its first conclusions and it is proving rather positive. A Snapdragon 820 that marks a true return to the roots for Qualcomm which returns to custom hearts that number four.
Four cores that are arranged in a heterogeneous configuration with two high-performance cores and two more clocked at a lower speed for everyday tasks. The latest benchmarks made by Anantech show us today that the Kryo cores used by the Soc are able to compete with the A57 cores and even the A72 cores of ARM on single core tests although in faster processors, the A72 can overshadow them and the Apple A9 of the iPhone 6S is still the master , in terms of single core performance.
We also find that memory management is much better than it was with the Snapdragon 810. The latest tests revealed a maximum bandwidth of 17.4GB/s on the SD820 versus 7.5GB/s on the Snapdragon 810. That is, optimal use of the theoretical bandwidth of 28.8GB/s offered by the two LPDDR4 memory controllers.
In terms of graphic performance, the APU Adreno 530 on board performs its mission brilliantly. The Snapdragon 820 and its GPU are first almost everywhere. On GFXBench, the Adreno 530 scores 52 to 72% higher than the Galaxy Note 5 (Exynos 7420) and gets beaten from time to time by the iPhone 6S but nothing alarming.
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