Qualcomm has finally unveiled all the features of the flagship chip for this year 2017 and that we will see in a good list of high-end devices that will be presented in the first half of the year. After it was announced in November, has now presented it at CES in Las Vegas.
It was in one of the first keynotes of CES 2017, when Qualcomm officially announced the Snapdragon 835 chip. Dedicated to arrive in the first wave of Android devices, users can expect a 20% jump on various tasks CPU, improved energy efficiency and Quick Charge 4.0 support.
The Snapdragon 835 is notable for reducing its manufacturing process from 14nm to 10nm. This results in 25 percent less energy use over the 820. It has also been shown that there is a 50% reduction in energy consumption when compared to the 801 3 years ago.
Qualcomm commented on some very interesting figures such as one day of talk time, more than 5 days of audio playback and up to 7 hours of 4K content playback.
Support to Quick Charge 4.0 provides 5 hours of power when it is connected to the mains for 5 minutes. This new version of the chip offers in the 4.0 up to 20 percent fast charge while maintaining temperatures at 5 degrees Celsius.
Another of the biggest differences with the 820 and 821 of 2016 is that this year the chip has past eight cores Kryo 280 that would use the big.LITTLE architecture for a 20% performance increase in app loading, web browsing and VR.
Four high-performance cores that can be set to one clock speed up to 2,45 GHz, while the rest would go up to 1,9GHz to achieve an "efficiency cluster" where 80% of the processing time will take place.
On the GPU or graphics performance side, the Adreno 540 supports 4K @ 60fps displays with 25 percent higher graphics rendering. The Hexagon 690 DSP responsible for digital signal processing supports Google TensorFlow, which enables machine learning tasks on the device, such as voice and object recognition, hand movement tracking, and biometric authentication.
Other characteristics include X16LTE modem and improved camera processing. On the connectivity side, there is support for 4x carrier aggregation, 4 × 4 MIMO, Bluetooth 5.0 and 802.11ad Wi-Fi, as well as combined improvements for better zoom, improved auto-focus and video stabilization. .
La first half of 2017 all those smartphones that will carry it in their guts will be presented.