Qualcomm’s next generation mobile chip will be unveiled at the 2019 Snapdragon Tech Summit, which kicks off in Hawaii on 3 December
Just days after Qualcomm announced the dates of its 2019 Snapdragon Tech Summmit, at which the processor giant is likely to unveil its next-generation products, more details of its flagship chipset appear to have leaked online.
Expected to be called Snapdragon 865, an assumption made based on the company’s naming convention of previous models, the 8 Series is set to power next year’s flagship Android phones. We were already given an insight into just how powerful this chip looks to be when benchmark scores leaked online earlier this year, and now a similar leak, via Chinese site Weibo, has seemingly confirmed it.
Here’s what we know so far about the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865. We’ll update this page as more information is released.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 865: Everything you need to know
Earlier this year, results from Geekbench appeared on Slashleaks that appeared to show benchmark scores for what is believed to be Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 865 chipset.
The listing shows a device running Android 10, powered by an eight-core chipset with the codename Qualcomm Kona. The more recent leak, published on Weibo, confirms this eight-core setup, revealing that this Snapdragon 865 CPU has base clock speed of 1.8GHz. Elsewhere, the post describes the Snapdragon 865 chip as having four Kryo Silver (Cortex-A55) cores assigned to run at 1.8GHz, three Kryo Gold (Cortex-A77) cores at 2.42GHz, and a single Kryo Gold core with a 2.84GHz clock speed.
The Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 is expected to be the chipset that will power next year’s flagship Android smartphones, such as the Samsung Galaxy S11.
While we’ll have to wait until the Snapdragon Summit to find out the specifics, based on previous iterations as well as Geekbench’s scores, we’d expect to see improved AI and machine learning capabilities, better image and graphic processing and the addition of a 5G modem on the chip itself. Previous Snapdragon chipsets in the 855 series relied on an external X55 modem to provide 5G features.
Compared to the Qualcomm 845, the 855 was up to 45% quicker on the CPU side and 20% faster for graphics and gaming. This was achieved by using three CPUs – a single-core CPU (dubbed the “Prime Core”), a triple-core “performance” CPU and a quad-core “efficiency” CPU. Elsewhere, the new Adreno 640 GPU improved graphics performance on the 855 and its fabrication process made it more power efficient, leading to battery improvements on its devices.
The Weibo tipster adds that bencchmarks of the Snapdragon 865 show a performance increase of up to 20%, while the GPU performance performs 17-20% better than the last generation.
Qualcomm’s 2019 Snapdragon Tech Summit kicks off in Hawaii on 3 December and, if previous years’ events are anything to go by, we’re in for a flurry of product announcements in addition to the Snapdragon 865.
At last year’s event, Qualcomm took the covers off the latest in its flagship 8 Series lineup, the Snapdragon 855 mobile platform, alongside the Snapdragon 8cx compute platform for PCs, the Snapdragon X50 5G modem and QTM052 mmWave antenna module, and the Qualcomm Spectra 380 — the world’s first image signal processor (ISP) with integrated artificial intelligence.
If this year’s showcase follows suit, we’d expect to see the next-generation 8 Series, the Snapdragon 865 (as well as refreshes to the mid-range and budget 6 Series and 7 Series), further 5G and ISP advancements and improvements to the 8cx compute platform all ahead of these processors making their way into next year’s smartphones.
Source: expertreviews.co.uk
