As promised, Qualcomm today has revealed more information regarding its new flagship processor, the Snapdragon 855 on the second day of its Snapdragon
As promised, Qualcomm today has revealed more information regarding its new flagship processor, the Snapdragon 855 on the second day of its Snapdragon Tech Summit here in Hawaii. Among such details that the company has disclosed is a brand-new CPU design concept called Prime Core.
As opposed to the BIG.little setup that was implemented on its predecessors which carries an equal amount of efficiency and performance cores, the Snapdragon 855’s Kyro 485 CPU carries four 1.8GHz efficiency cores, three 2.42GHz performance core, and a 2.84GHz “prime” core. The company claimed that the new chip is able to deliver up to 45% more performance as compared to its predecessor which is apparently the biggest performance leap in Snapdragon’s history.
At the same time, the Snapdragon 855 also includes an Adreno 640 GPU which offers a performance increase of up to 20% when compared to previous generation GPU. Additionally, it also brings together the support for Vulkan 1.1 API, high dynamic range, and physically based rendering.
