The Snapdragon 855 is getting an upgrade to the Snapdragon 855 Ars Technica

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Today Qualcomm announced a mid-cycle upgrade for the Snapdragon 855, referred to as the "Snapdragon 855+." As a mid-cycle improve, there aren't massive changes right here. It's nonetheless an eight-center, 7nm SoC, however the CPU and GPU are a piece faster thanks to higher clock speeds.

First up: the CPU, which sees the 855's "Prime" core clock speed get bumped from 2.84GHz to 2.96GHz inside the Plus model. Remember the 855's "Prime" core format become a chunk of a new component for Qualcomm. It became ordinary to cut up the eight CPU cores up into two sets of 4 cores. The "Big" middle set got a extra-advanced center design and a higher clock price for the heavy workloads, even as a "little" set of cores had slower, extra electricity-green cores for smaller workloads. The 855 took that larger core set and pumped a single middle as much as a "Prime" core, so you had one Cortex A76-based center at 2.84GHz, three A76-based cores at 2.42GHz, and 4 1.8GHz Cortex A55-based cores for the smaller cluster. The new "Prime" center clock pace manner that most effective the unmarried primary middle is quicker.

As for the quicker Adreno 640 GPU, Qualcomm's press release guarantees "15 percent quicker portraits rendering" and gives no technical details. We're going to expect meaning the 585MHz clock price from the Snapdragon 855 is now somewhere round 673MHz.

That's the whole lot. It's the same Snapdragon 855 that has been everywhere in the high-cease marketplace this yr, however a piece quicker. Qualcomm quietly presented a clock-rate-bumped Snapdragon 845 closing yr, which showed up within the Asus ROG Phone. The chip additionally moved to Windows PCs and became the Snapdragon 850.

Qualcomm says to expect business devices with the 855+ in "2H 2019." A report from Anandtech says the Asus will once more be the primary to provide Qualcomm's faster chip, this time inside the Asus ROG Phone 2, which launches July 23. After that, Samsung's Galaxy Note 10, launching August 7, is a probable landing spot, too.

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2019-07-15 14:56:00Z
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