Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 Specs: New Chip Is Twice as Fast as Previous Generations
Rumors about the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 have been swirling online for quite some time, and now the chip maker has finally revealed the specs of the long-awaited processor.
The flagship smartphones to be launched next year will run on the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor. The Kryo CPU in the chip will bring twice the performance and power efficiency of its predecessors, according to PC Advisor.
"The Snapdragon 820 has been holistically designed around enriching visual quality and audio clarity, as well as developing more intuitive ways to interact with devices, to generate deeply immersive experiences," PC Advisor quotes Qualcomm's statement about the Snapdragon 820 chip.
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The 820 chip's 64-bit Kryo CPU is able to manage up to 2.2 GHz, resulting in better performance and battery life of the smartphone. The Qualcomm Quick Charge 3.0 also allows for four times the speed of charging, Latin Post reports.
The Adreno 530 GPU, X12 LTE modem, and Hexagon 680 DSP all serve to give clearer graphic, plus better compute capabilities and power usage. The report adds.
Among the upcoming flagship phones, which will reportedly run on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820, is the Samsung Galaxy S7. The South Korean tech firm is considering using the new chip in half of its flagship units, while the other half will come with its Exynos 7420 processor, the report details.
Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf's statement during the company's recent earnings call confirms that many premium smartphones will carry the 820 chipset in 2016. He said 60 prototype devices are now being tested with the new processor, but he did not confirm if all of the said devices will be released to the public.
Jim McGregor, a principal analyst from Tirias Research, said new devices with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 chipset will begin coming out in April 2016.
Smartphone manufacturers are expected to announce the devices that will come with the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 during February's Mobile World Congress.
