The Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 chipset has been unveiled, setting the stage for new flagships in 2018. It’s still going to be a few months of course before we see the chip in action inside any smartphone, but till then, here is everything that you need to know.
- Semi-custom ARM Cortex Kryo 385 CPU and Adreno 630 GPU built on Samsung’s 2nd gen 10nm LPP FinFET process
- 2 MB of shared L3 cache
- Four performance cores with clock speeds up to 2.8 GHz and four energy efficient cores with a max clock speed of 1.7 GHz
- 25% increase in performance as compared to the SD 835 CPU
- 30% improvement in graphics and video rendering performance by the GPU
- The Adrenon630 can support 120Hz displays of 2K resolutions
- 30% better energy-efficiency
- room-scale 6 degrees of freedom (6DoF) and simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM)
- 3rd generation Vector DSP with HVX, aka the Hexagon 685. It is optimized for AI and imaging workloads
- Support for Google’s Android Nueral Networks API, Open Neural Network Exchange and TensorFlow Lite
- Support for 480 fps slow motion 720p video, 60 fps video recording at up to 16-mp resolution
- Ability to capture 64 times more high-dynamic range color information than the SD 835
- multi-frame noise reduction
- accelerated software image stabilization
- temporal filtering with motion compensation
- 10-bit HDR support and support for the Rec. 2020 gamut for 4K/Ultra HD content
- Improved Wi-Fi modem and X20 LTE modem
- Support for License Assisted Access (LAA) for unlicensed spectrum, dual SIM with dual VoLTE, 4×4 MIMO on up to 3 carriers and 5x carrier aggregation
- Diversity-enhanced 60 GHz 802.11ad Wi-Fi for stronger multi-gigabit coverage at speeds up to 4.6 Gbps
- 802.11ac Wi-Fi with up to a 16 times faster connection setup, simultaneous dual-band support, and 30% more capacity utilization
If all this didn’t blow you over, don’t worry because there’s a lot more and you can check it all out in details at Android Authority.