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qualcomm’s Snapdragon Tech Summit is an annual event during which the chipmaker unveils its upcoming offerings. At last year’s event, Qualcomm  unveiled its flagship Snapdragon 855  mobile  platform  for 2019. It also unveiled the  Snapdragon X50 modem , along with the QTM052 mmWave antenna module, that can be found on most 5G enabled smartphones today. Along with that, the company  launched the Qualcomm Spectra 380  — the world’s first image signal processor (ISP) with integrated artificial intelligence. Furthermore, Qualcomm also  showcased the Snapdragon 8cx compute platform , to power a new generation of premium Always on, Always Connected PCs. The new chip featured 4×4 Kryo 495  CPU  cores with a larger system and L3 cache that allowed for faster multitasking. On the graphics front, the chip included the new Adreno 680 GPU, promising double the performance and 60% greater power efficiency compared to the Snapdragon 850. It i...

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Benchmarks: Comparing CPU and GPU Performance with the Kirin 990, Snapdragon 855, and Snapdragon 845 Nearly two weeks ago, Qualcomm invited tech journalists to Maui for the  2019 Snapdragon Tech Summit.  At the event, the company unveiled its latest high-end SoC for mobile devices:  the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 mobile platform . Qualcomm says the new Snapdragon 865 boasts a 25% CPU performance increase and a 20% GPU performance increase over the previous generation Snapdragon 855. Also, the new SoC supports LPDDR5 memory and is manufactured on a newer 7nm process. Qualcomm’s latest silicon will make its way to 2020 flagships like the  Xiaomi Mi 10,  OPPO Find X2, and many other high-end smartphones. But just how much faster is it than the previous generations? We benchmarked Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 865 reference device at the event to find out. We pit the new SoC against the Snapdragon 855+, the Snapdragon 855, the  Snapdrag...