Hey Guess what, Qualcomm announced a new top tier Snapdragon chipset this week, the Snapdragon 850. Well I never saw that coming, but a new Snapdragon chip is hitting the market. Is this going to be the new hot chip setting the android world on fire? Will it be in the Samsung Note 9? Hold up everyone, the answer to your questions is no. A big fat no. We are still a year away before we take the next power up on the mobile side. I mean apple hasn’t even laid out the tech jump yet. Ahem …7nm processor..
Whats with the Snapdragon 850 Then
As Qualcomm explains it, the Snapdragon 850 was “designed to support many sought-after smartphone features in the PC,” which means connectivity at all times through LTE or WiFi. This chipset should help in the battery department too, by being extra efficient. Which means it’s not a mobile chip, it’s a Snapdragon chip that was designed for Windows and to make your laptop work a lot like a smartphone in terms of being mobile, power reducing and faster.
Looking at these two side by side spec wise and compare them to the Snapdragon 845, it actually looks like it is very similar, only formatted to work with PCs that run Windows. You’ve got the same Kryo 385 CPU cores, 84-bit architecture, same RAM support, 10nm (2nd gen) process, same Adreno 630 GPU, same video codec and capture support, etc. Qualcomm did up the CPU speed to 2.96GHz,so we got that going for us.
The Final Thought
Don’t be too upset, Qualcomm’s first-generation Snapdragon PC processor struggled with performance issues while providing incredible all-day battery life. Qualcomm has addressed these problems with the new Snapdragon 850, adding 30 percent more performance while extending its already incredible battery life another 20 percent to what it now calls “multi-day” longevity. This will be a good thing, think better 2 in 1s.
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