Qualcomm introduces us to the Snapdragon 820 Kryo CPU

[HEXUS]

Claims 2x power efficiency and performance compared to the Snapdragon 810.

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[Arulmani]

really praise worthy upgrades.

[watercooled]

Not that I'm being pessimistic but 2x performance is a bit ambiguous so I wonder if relates to real-world performance or flat-out performance? Either would be impressive but especially so if they've managed 2x the flat-out performance of the 810 considering the 810 was thermally limited in a lot of devices so often didn't manage its peak clock speeds. Also I wonder if they're talking per-core or multithreaded?

It will be interesting to see how it compares to Exynos though as they'll both be on Samsung 14nm (though maybe different versions, LPE/LPP) and the Exynos already manages substantially better sustained performance than the 810 in a phone form-factor using the 'same' cores.

[kernoriordan]

Finally a 14nm chip from Qualcomm!

[Oobie-]

Likely to be used in the new Nexus handsets?