Qualcomm has the successor to its Snapdragon 800-soc is presented. The Snapdragon 805 has four Krait 450-processor cores at up to 2.5 GHz and includes a new Adreno 420 gpu. Smartphones with this processor come within a half a year.
The Snapdragon 805 is mainly intended for the control of 4k displays, says Qualcomm. The soc, with the likely model number MSM8974ac, is still a quadcore. Qualcomm mentioned earlier octacore processors for phones already leh.
The four processor cores have a slightly modified core, Krait 450. The precise changes, Qualcomm has not yet announced, but probably the changes are not large compared to the Krait 400 from Snapdragon 800. The Snapdragon 800 is more in the Nexus 5, Samsung Galaxy Note 3, Sony Xperia Z1, LG G2 and Nokia Lumia 1520.
In the Snapdragon 805 is a Adreno 420 gpu, which will include tesselation adds. Qualcomm claims that this gpu is 40 percent faster than the Adreno 330 gpu in the Snapdragon 800. In addition, says Qualcomm not or the Snapdragon 805 on the 4k to the same graphical performance as the Snapdragon 800 on a full hd screen. The memory bandwidth is double that of the Snapdragon 800.
The Snapdragon 805 will be from the first half of next year in smartphones appear. The first smartphones with this chip are likely to be announced. The Chinese manufacturer Gionee announced recently its Elife E7 with Qualcomm MSM8974ac. It has a maximum clock speed of 2.5 GHz. The Snapdragon 800 has as model number MSM8974 and MSM8974ab and running at up to 2.3 GHz.
Qualcomm also mentions a lot of details in his announcement. Thus, it is unknown whether Qualcomm is still holding on to the 28nm process that it is already a year and a half. Also is the memory type is unknown.
SocsSnapdragon 805Snapdragon 800Apple A7Nvidia Tegra 4
Core
Krait 450
Krait 400
Cyclone
Cortex A15
Cores
4
4
2
5
Clock speed
2.5 GHz
2.3 Ghz
1.4 Ghz
1.9 GHz
Gpu
Adreno 420
Adreno 330
PowerVR G6430
ULP GeForce 72-core
Memory
25,6 GB/s
12,8 GB/s
12,8 G/ps
With 14.9 GB/s