Qualcomm has confirmed its next flagship SoC – the Snapdragon 820 will make use of the custom-built, highly optimised cores designed for heterogenous computing called ‘Kryo’ instead of the custom ARM cores used on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 SoC.
The Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 is designed to provide innovative user experiences for premium-tier mobile devices and the Qualcomm Kryo will help it achieve its aim of balancing increased performance with longer battery life.
The Qualcomm Kyro is the first custom designed 64-bit quad-core CPU made by the company, it is manufactured using the latest 14nm FinFET process and would be clocked up to 2.2GHz. The four cores (Kyro) are tightly integrated with the Adreno 530 GPU and Hexagon 680 DSP.
In terms of performance, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 SoC promises twice the the performance and twice the power efficiency of the pretty much temperamental Snapdragon 810.
The Qualcomm Symphony System Manager was also mentioned – it will be in charge of managing the entire SoC in different configurations to achieve more effectiveness and efficiency with less power.
Even though the Xiaomi Mi5 has been heavily tipped to be the first smartphone to use the Snapdragon 820 SoC, a device simply known as Green Orange X1 Pro used the SoC and recorded a shattering 83,774 score on AnTuTu.
The device has 4GB of RAM, 64GB native storage, 16MP main camera and runs Android 4.4 Kitkat OS. The very high score is partly attributed to the fact the Green Orange X1 Pro uses a FHD resolution on its display instead of a QHD one.
Source: Qualcomm, Weibo
