The chip maker has said that the new CPU will offer twice the performance and power efficiency found in the Snapdragon 810 chip and hopefully no overheating issues to complain about. In late August, Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon Smart Protect for the SoC, a breakthrough mobile anti-malware technology. Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 will house the quad-core Kyro CPU (which is the successor of Krait) and will be addressed at the premium segment of the market. After the eight core Snapdragon 810 the company chose to make its own four cores and go back to the custom space. Phones and tablets are such tightly integrated devices that we’ll need to see shipping hardware before we can really say how well the Snapdragon 820 performs, but Qualcomm’s early numbers all paint an optimistic picture.
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The results of this change, and the subsequent introduction of Kryo cores on the Snapdragon 820 have made for some important gains on the processor.
Qualcomm says this type of “heterogeneous” computing will be able to double the battery life when compared to what the Snapdragon 810 could deliver.
Also, Kryo will be manufactured on Samsung’s 14nm FinFET process, which effectively removes TSMC from the equation. All that experience culminates in the Snapdragon 820, an efficient chip with optimized cores, each of which target a specific task rather than using the same core for multiple jobs.
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The CPU works in a heterogeneous computing system alongside elements of the Snapdragon 820 revealed previously like the next-gen camera and Adreno 530 GPU (with Vulkan support), the new Hexagon 680 DSP. Now that the three pieces of the puzzle – the GPU, DSP and Kryo have been given, stay tuned for our initial look on the Snapdragon 820 as a complete SoC. Until then, let us know what you think in the comments section below.
