Qualcomm has leaked a lot of the information about the Snapdragon 820 chipset ever since March and the company finally decided to fully reveal the upcoming top SoC in the market. This obviously means we’re getting closer and closer to seeing the Snapdragon 820, but the company insists that won’t happen until 2016.
The Snapdragon 820 comes with a quad-core CPU with 64-bit Kryo cores, which can be clocked at up to 2.2 GHz, which is twice the performance of the one in the Snapdragon 810. The same improvement is quoted when it comes to “efficiency”, which makes us think that the S820 will have better life compared to its predecessor due to the new Hexagon 680 DSP. In the other hand, the S820 will be equipped with Adreno 530 GPU and it has at least 40% improvement to graphics performance, compute capabilities, and power usage when compared to the 430 from the predecessor.
Connectivity on S820 includes X12 LTE modem, support Cat.12 LTE download (with 600Mbps) peaks and Cat.13 uploads (with 150Mbps peaks), tri-carrier aggregation for downloads, and two-carrier aggregation for uploads. The Wi-Fi part of the chip gets support for 2×2 MU-MIMO 802.11ac connections, which is the fastest currently available option. Of course, you need a wireless router with MU-MIMO support, and there aren’t a lot of those in the market at the moment.
Since 2K displays are widely available, 4K displays are supported by the S820 along with up to 28MP cameras through the new 14-bit dual-ISP. The chipset also works with UFS 2.0 or eMMC 5.1 flash storage, LPDDR4 186MHz dual-channel memory, USB 3.0 or 2.0, and NFC. Besides, Qualcomm Quick Charge 3.0 will be improvising with four times faster than conventional charging and 38% faster than Quick Charge 2.0. You obviously will expect to see this chip will be available in most of the Android flagship smartphones next year.
SOURCE: Qualcomm
