Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 with 5G support

Qualcomm just announced the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 mobile platform and this is basically their flagship mobile chipset for 2020 you are pretty much going to see it in like every single flagship Android phone in the coming year, and there's a lot to unpack.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 with 5G support

Qualcomm just announced the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 mobile platform and this is basically their flagship mobile chipset for 2020 you are pretty much going to see it in like every single flagship Android phone in the coming year, and there's a lot to unpack.

Now first things first this is still a 7-nanometer chipset so no there are no dice ranked since the 855, but that doesn't mean that it's not quite a bit better, there are a lot of improvements in this chipset so let's get to it.

 

Performance, and battery efficiency

Qualcomm is rating battery efficiency over the A55 and that's a pretty big jump that's mostly due to the fact that they're now using the A77 chip from the arm for the CPU, and that's just a much better architecture because it's around the same clock speed as it was in the last chip the prime core is 2.5 gigahertz and the big core is 2.4 gigahertz for the architecture is just so much better that you're getting 25% better power efficiency and 25.2 % better performance

GPU

Qualcomm is rating the new Adreno 650 to have about 25 % better performance than the Adreno 640 and 35% better battery efficiency so, you can kind of see a trend going here you've got quite a bit better performance and quite a bit better battery efficiency across the board.

 

This GPU, it's going to support 144 Hertz HDR 10 + QHD+ displays, and that's nice to see because we've seen 90 Hertz displays we've seen 120 Hertz displays just this year alone, and that means that we're probably going to see high refresh rate displays become a lot more popular in 2020 and the fact that is HDR 10 + is just icing on that cake now something else that's cool about the Adreno 650, is the GPU drivers are actually separated from the rest of the chipsets, and that's pretty much how traditional GPUs have worked in like desktops and laptops previously you would download the GPU drivers because the manufacturer could issue updates for it and that means that you'll now be able to download drivers for the Adreno 650 GPU over the Google Play Store so your GPU is going to get better over time.

 

AI performance

In this chip and 4x tensor performance in the tensor processor in the DSP and there's also about 35% better battery efficiency as well so again we're going a lot more performance and a lot more battery efficiency in this chip that's going to help with things like semantic segmentation in the camera where it can separate aspects of your face and cloth, and apply filters differently to make the image look overall better there's a lot of uses cases for AI and smartphones.

 

The first smartphone to support the new X55 Qualcomm modem

 

This is a 5G modem there are a lot of benefits to this modem if you want to read, them, we have got an X50 Vs X55 modem over on the website so make sure you head over there.

 

 

CAMERA

Most impressively is the new spectra ISP that's in the snapdragon 865 now the biggest thing is that it can process 2 Gigapixels per second of data, and that's a huge increase and usually, you're going to have to just bump the clock speed to get more data throughput but Qualcomm did the opposite they're lowering the clock speed in their processing 4 pixels per clock instead of one pixel per clock at a higher clock rate.

This is a lot of benefits because you're saving about 16 % energy efficiency and you can process way more data which is enabling a lot of different things one of those is 200-megapixel images another is 8k 30fps video,4k 120 FPS video,720p 960 fps videos sustained for over 10 minutes there are so many benefits to this I actually did a deep dive into all the new features that are coming to the camera because of the two gigabits per second processing.

 

 If you have any questions, make sure you leave them in the comment section below. 

 

 

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