After presenting its Snapdragon 820 at MWC 2015, Qualcomm regularly communicates about its next Soc by unveiling only what it wants to reveal. Last month it was the Adreno 530 graphics chip, today it’s the turn of the home hearts 64 Bit Kryo to make people talk about them. The latest release from the chip manufacturer confirms the engraving in 14 nanometers via the FinFET production process of the Kryo cores and announces twice as much performance and autonomy as with the Snapdragon 810.
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Kryo custom hearts are the very first 64 Bit hearts developed by Qualcomm. They come to take over the Krait used in the Snapdragon 800, 801 and 805. Like them, they will come to balance performance and energy efficiency. In terms of clock speed, the Snapdragon 820 will be able to go up to 2.2 Ghz.
The important thing to remember here is that the processor has been optimized to intelligently combine performance and energy efficiency. It is with this in mind that Kryo’s homemade hearts were designed. The 14 nanometer engraving will help the Soc excel in both areas, but its mode of operation is also paramount, the goal always to offer the best performance for the task requested but without ever spending more energy than it should.
A task that will fall to the Symphony manager, whose goal will be to determine which component is able to perform a task with the best performance/autonomy ratio and then direct it either to the CPU, or to the GPU, or to the ISP, or to the DSP Hexagon 680 component supposed to boost the battery life of smartphones under Snapdragon 820.
The first samples of the Soc will likely be delivered to manufacturers as early as this fall, but smartphones are unlikely to arrive under Snapdragon 820 until the first quarter of 2016. Note that a first an AnTuTu benchmark of a mysterious phone named Green Orange X1 Pro recently surfaced on AnTuTu with a score of 83,774 points,unheard of!
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