Snapdragon 855

[Grey1213]

(12-06-2018, 03:31 AM)JonnyH Wrote: Boy people are hyping this up. Prepare to be disappointed! Of course the pre-release marketing stuff will make it look good. As they wouldn't release the bad-looking numbers!

Does everyone forget the hype for every previous generation?

But their announcements for the past couple years weren't even that big though, unlike the A76 core. And despite that the hardware has gotten better and a SD845 device has much better performance than a SD820 device. Also, we've seen the A76 cores already, so it's not an unknown. 


https://www.anandtech.com/show/13614/arm-delivers-on-cortex-a76-promises

[ganon]

Some details here https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/12/05/snapdragon-855-specifications-details-release-date-and-more/

[LG Fanatic]

(12-06-2018, 04:30 AM)Helios Wrote: then why y'all falling for the same promises year after year

The thing is, we've seen tangible improvements each year since the troubled SD 810.  So, while consistent full speed gameplay and compatibility is probably still a few generations away, we should see tangible gameplay improvements with the 855.  That is unless Android Pie's gpu drivers are completely broken.  Which is certainly possible.

[Helios]

But I already pointed out that the CPU capabilities are fine as they are in existing flagships. They're just being hamstrung by terrible drivers and a handful of phones having aggressive thermal management systems. A more powerful CPU isn't really going to change that.

[Guilherme]

We can call the "prime core" the "benchmark core". I bet Qualcomm will lock all the big cores at 2.42GHz running games, at least this should be the sustained clock speed. Anyway, the performance increase over previous chip will be really good according to early Geekbench results. If you do the math comparing results between 820, 835 and 845, you'll see thay are mostly because of higher clock, the IPC only improved only around 5% between A72, A73 and A75, and now we're seeing something around 30% comparing A76 to A75. It remains to expect that the "Elite Gaming" Adreno 640 come with better drivers.

[Nintonito]

(12-07-2018, 03:12 AM)Guilherme Wrote: We can call the "prime core" the "benchmark core". I bet Qualcomm will lock all the big cores at 2.42GHz running games, at least this should be the sustained clock speed. Anyway, the performance increase over previous chip will be really good according to early Geekbench results. If you do the math comparing results between 820, 835 and 845, you'll see thay are mostly because of higher clock, the IPC only improved only around 5% between A72, A73 and A75, and now we're seeing something around 30% comparing A76 to A75. It remains to expect that the "Elite Gaming" Adreno 640 come with better drivers.

Better drivers? Haha. Qualcomm’s trying to pass off PBR rendering as a snapdragon 855 feature, I doubt they think much of their target audience.

[stizzo]

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13686/snapdragon-855-power-consumption-but

Quote:All of this is well and good, although one big caveat came up: none of the screens were brightness calibrated. The Qualcomm representative said that the brightness of the devices was ‘eyeballed’ to be in the same region, however based on personal experience, that’s never a guarantee and they could be out by as much as 20-30%. The panels were also not from the same manufacturer, so there’s a question of panel efficiency as well.

ROTFL!!!

Yeah, Sure.. a screen benchmark.