Last month, Qualcomm unveiled its next-generation flagship chipset for the high-end smartphones — Snapdragon 855. It is the first commercial mobile platform to offer support for 5G connectivity.

Now, ahead of Snapdragon 855-powered smartphone launch, a Geekbench benchmark listing has surfaced online which claims to be of the Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 855 chipset. It seems that the score comes directly from a manufacturer’s test unit.

The listing reveals that the chipset scored 3,545 points in single-core test and 11,150 points in multi-core test. The device used for testing packed 6GB of RAM and was running Android 9 Pie operating system.

Last month, AnTuTu comparison between SD855 chipset with other flagship chipsets from other manufacturers — Kirin 980 and Exynos 9820 revealed that Snapdragon 855 is leading and its test on the upcoming Galaxy S10+ scored 343,051 points. Prior to that, a leak showed SD855 SoC recording 362,292 points in AnTuTu — highest yet for an Android device.

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 — successor of the current-generation Snapdragon 845 — comes with support for 5G connectivity and a few other features which are aimed at improving the user experience. It offers 5G connectivity using the company’s own Snapdragon X50 5G modem.

The octa-core processor features four power-saving cores clocked at 1.78GHz, three performance cores clocked at 2.42GHz and another special “gold” core for performance boost which is clocked at 2.84GHz. It is coupled with Adreno 640 graphics processor, which is expected to bring performance improvement.

Just like the Apple A12 Bionic chipset and Huawei’s Kirin 980 processor, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 is also manufactured using the 7nm process by TSMC. It also comes with the company’s fourth-generation, multi-core AI Engine that is claimed to offer up to 3 times the AI performance compared to the SD845.

It also features the world’s first Computer Vision Image Signal Processor (CV-ISP) to deliver new photo and video capture features. For the gaming, the company unveiled Snapdragon Elite Gaming, a set of features in the mobile platform to enhance mobile gaming experiences.

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Most of the high-end smartphone coming in 2019 will be powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 octa-core chipset. We’ll be seeing devices from manufacturers such as Samsung, Xiaomi, LG, HTC, Motorola, Google, Sony, OnePlus, Oppo, and Vivo from early next year.

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As expected, during the Snapdragon Tech Summit 2018, US-based chipset manufacturer has announced its latest flagship mobile chipset — Qualcomm Snapdragon 855. The Snapdragon 855, which is the successor of the current-generation Snapdragon 845, comes with support for 5G connectivity and a few other features, aimed at improving the user experience.

The smartphone industry is moving towards the 5G-era and Qualcomm being the dominant mobile chipset manufacturer, is leaving no stones unturned when it comes to 5G connectivity. The newly announced Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 is the world’s first commercial 5G mobile platform.

The chipset is offering 5G connectivity using the company’s own Snapdragon X50 5G modem. The 5G modem is combined with Qualcomm QTM052 mmWave antenna modules with integrated RF trans-receiver, RF front-end antenna, and antenna elements.

The octa-core processor features four power-saving cores clocked at 1.78GHz, three performance cores clocked at 2.42GHz and another special “gold” core for performance boost which is clocked at 2.84GHz. It is coupled with Adreno 640 graphics processor, which is expected to bring performance improvement.

Just like the Apple A12 Bionic chipset and Huawei’s Kirin 980 processor, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 is also manufactured using the 7nm process by TSMC. The Snapdragon 855 also comes with the company’s fourth-generation, multi-core AI Engine that is claimed to offer up to 3 times the AI performance compared to the Snapdragon 845.

The newly unveiled chipset also features the world’s first Computer Vision Image Signal Processor (CV-ISP) to deliver new photo and video capture features. For the gaming, the company unveiled Snapdragon Elite Gaming, a set of features in the mobile platform to enhance mobile gaming experiences.

The company has also announced the Qualcomm 3D Sonic Sensor—an under-display fingerprint sensor solution that uses ultrasonic waves, unlike optical under-display fingerprint sensors which use light. According to the company, 3D Sonic Sensor is more secure and accurate than the alternative.

Most of the high-end smartphone coming in 2019 will be powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 octa-core chipset. We’ll be seeing devices from manufacturers such as Samsung, Xiaomi, LG, HTC, Motorola, Google, Sony, OnePlus, Oppo, and Vivo from early next year.

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Qualcomm will reveal more details about the Snapdragon 855 mobile platform as the Snapdragon Tech Summit 2018 continues in Hawaii, USA. Stay tuned for more updates throughout the Summit.

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Qualcomm is all set to announce its next-generation flagship mobile chipset — Snapdragon 855, which is codenamed Snapdragon 8155. Ahead of the official launch event, TechCrunch accidentally published an article, revealing key features of Snapdragon 855.

Soon after realizing the mistake, TechCrunch has taken down the article. However, it confirms that the commercial name of the chipset is Snapdragon 855 and the Snapdragon 8155 was just a codename. In the article announcing the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 processor, it said that the Snapdragon 855 mobile platform is the “world’s first commercial mobile platform with support for multi-gigabit 5G”.

Further, the chipset is manufactured using the 7nm process by TSMC and comes with a dedicated Neural Processing Unit (NPU), which is claimed to provide three times better performance compared to the previous solutions. The company also said that it is the first time that an NPU is integrated into the SoC package.

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 will have three CPU clusters, including four power-saving cores clocked at 1.78GHz, three high-end cores clocked at 2.42GHz, and one top-performance “gold” core clocked at 2.84GHz. It will be coupled with Adreno 640 graphics processor, which will bring performance improvement.

In addition to the integrated Snapdragon X24 LTE modem, it has Snapdragon X50 5G modem that will provide 5G connectivity. Further, the chipset is optimized for gaming and comes with a new feature called “Snapdragon Elite Gaming”. We’ll know more about this gaming-related feature during the official announcement.

The chipset’s graphics engine has also been optimized for augmented reality (AR) applications, and there’s a specialized computational vision engine that processes “computational photography” data to help deliver better images and videos, similar to Google Pixel 3’s Night Light feature.

It also has a 3D sonic sensor, which is an enhanced ultrasonic in-display fingerprint sensor. Thanks to this new sensor, the fingerprint scanner has an enhanced sensitivity, meaning that it’ll work even when there’s a screen protector on top.

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High-end devices powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 chipset from manufacturers such as Samsung, Xiaomi, LG, HTC, Motorola, Google, Sony, OnePlus, Oppo, and Vivo will be available from early next year.

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