Just recently, Qualcomm, the chip titan based in San Diego officially launched the Snapdragon 855 Plus designed to power smartphones. It is a binned version of the high-end SoC, the Snapdragon 855, and many smartphone makers announced soon after that they are releasing future smartphones housing the new chip. The new variant of the popular 855 SoC showed off its power when it annihilated the competition by easily passing the 11k threshold in Geekbench.
Geekbench shared the benchmark for the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus powering the Black Shark 2 smartphone, which is a gaming phone series competing against the ROG phone and the Razer phone of Razer and Asus respectively. In the single test, the new binned variant of the 855 scored 3623 points and scored 11,367 points on the multi-core test. The score places the gaming smartphone on top of the chain in terms of performance.
In April 2018, the company launched the first Black Shark smartphone equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon 845. Compared to the first ROG smartphone that features a high-clocked SD845, the first Black Shark in the market utilized a regular SD 845 clocked at around 2.8 GHz for the big cluster and 1.8 GHz for the little cluster. The arrival of the Snapdragon 855 Plus will help smartphone makers, especially those developing gaming smartphones, in coming up with powerful devices.
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Model DLT-A0 appears on Geekbench. According to last information, it should be BlaskShark 2 Pro.
It has 12 GB od RAM and a new Snapdragon 855+ SoC.
Launch date 30.07. pic.twitter.com/7xqjs0TLKn — Xiaomishka (@xiaomishka) July 19, 2019
There were several claims earlier that the Snapdragon 855 Plus will most likely be integrated to various smartphone devices in 2020 but it seems that we will see Xiaomi's Black Shark 2 before 2019 ends if the latest claims are accurate. Asus already confirmed that the ROG Phone 2 will run on Snapdragon 855 Plus and it would be beneficial for Xiaomi to release earlier than its competitor.
#July #asus #Honor #XIaomi #Vivo #SD855Plus The upcoming conference in July (last shedule): 7.23 ASUS ROG Phone 2 7.23 Honor 9X&9X Pro 7.30 MediaTek Helio G90 7.30 BlackShark 2 Pro 7.31 vivo Z5 P.S. Share, so as not to forget ;) pic.twitter.com/WLdd4PqRHg — Xiaomishka (@xiaomishka) July 19, 2019
The new Snapdragon 855 Plus does not really have significant changes if compared to Snapdragon 855. With the binned variant, the Kyro Gold of Qualcomm is increased by approximately 4.2 percent. Its Adreno 630 GPU also got a speed bump of around 15 percent.
The new Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus specializes in neural computations, and image processing given its much bigger die area for these particular functions. Technically, there is really not much that the San Diego based chip titan could do to optimize the SoC, particularly for smartphones designed for gaming. But, the upgrade could be worth it, considering that modern games utilize more than the CPU.
