The Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 Performance Preview: Meet Kryo
by Ryan Smith & Andrei Frumusanu on December 10, 2015 11:00 AM EST- Posted in
- SoCs
- Snapdragon
- Qualcomm
- Snapdragon 820
CPU Performance, Cont
Having taken a look at Snapdragon 820 and the Kryo CPU from an architectural perspective, let’s look at our higher level benchmarks. We’ll start as always with the web benchmarks.
There are two things we can immediately take away from these results. The first is that currently Google Chrome is incredibly unoptimized for Kryo, and this is something Qualcomm was also quick to mention. We won’t wax on about this as there’s nothing to say we haven’t said before, but Chrome could certainly stand to implement optimized JS engines sooner.
Otherwise if we look at Qualcomm’s native browser, things are greatly improved. Relative to both the Exynos 7420 (A57) powered Note 5 and the Snapdragon 810 (A57) powered Mi Note Pro, the MDP/S shows a significant lead. In fact it pretty much blows past those devices in Kraken. However while it easily takes the top spot for an Android device, even with Qualcomm’s native browser the 820 isn’t going to be able to catch up to the iPhone 6s Plus and its A9 SoC.
Basemark OS II 2.0 on the other hand is less consistent. The overall score again pegs the MDP/S as the best Android device, and by over 20%. However for reasons yet to be determined, the system score is still below the latest Samsung devices. Instead where the 820 shows a clear lead is with the storage (memory) score and the graphics score. In some cases it’s even beating the iPhone 6s Plus, though overall it will fall short.
Our final system benchmark, PCMark, once again puts the MDP/S in a good light overall, while the individual sub-tests are more widely varied. Likely owing to the same optimization issues that dogged Chrome performance, web browsing performance trails the A57 devices. Meanwhile video playback closely trails the Snapdragon 810 powered HTC One M9, and writing performance won’t quite surpass the Galaxy S6. Where the 820 MDP/S makes up for it is in the photo editing score, which is through the roof. Here Qualcomm’s development device holds a 34% performance lead over the next-fastest device, the 810/A57 based Mi Note Pro.
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ws3 - Saturday, December 12, 2015 - link
Oops - "something me" should be "someone"toyotabedzrock - Friday, December 11, 2015 - link
Please tell me they are really not expecting that 3gb will be enough.Exynostein - Friday, December 11, 2015 - link
2017, Qualcomm is still very difficult, Apple will use A10, Samsung, as far as I know, Samsung's Exynos M2 architecture than the IPC upgrade Exynos M1 great, S820 and S830 compared to little change in architecture , but Samsung's 10nm LPE process. In fact, the biggest reason Samsung Qualcomm processor it is CDMA, Qualcomm CDMA grasp the vast majority of patents, almost a monopoly, and only China and the US presence CDMA, so Samsung had to use these two regions S820, otherwise, if Exynos8890 need plug-CDMA baseband, which will add significant costs.bushgreen - Saturday, December 12, 2015 - link
This consumes 30% less power than snapdragon 810. 810 throttles 50%. So 820 will still throttle 20%. Better to use only 2 cores like apple so it wont throttle at all and consume less power. 2 of these cores is enough.UtilityMax - Saturday, December 12, 2015 - link
I find that my SD800 based LG G2 runs smoothly most of the time, while barely getting hot or sipping battery. So will be impressive and more than sufficient if SD820 based smartphones have an SoC that's for many purposes 200% faster than the old SD800/SD801 parts without overheating or using too much power. I think we are close to be intering the smartphone era when, just like with the PCs, the CPU is fast enough for the most of the ordinary users, but what now matters is the sum of all parts: the screen, the camera, the battery, the design, and the build quality. In this sense in my opinion, the Oneplus X is probably one of the best phones of the year because it delivers all of this in a $250 dollar package.Mondozai - Saturday, December 12, 2015 - link
Im using SD800 in my 1520. Its already fast enough. Although I wonder how much of that is due to the smoothness of WP.TelstarTOS - Saturday, December 12, 2015 - link
Good, but not good enough.Rixxos - Sunday, December 13, 2015 - link
Not good enough for what?jruhe - Sunday, December 13, 2015 - link
A72 (Amazon Fire TV 2) vs. Kyro @Geekbenchhttps://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/compare...
milli - Monday, December 14, 2015 - link
The Kryo scores you use, are very early results.I made a comparison between the Amazon Fire TV 2 and the 820, using Anand's numbers.
http://i.imgur.com/O3L6bQM.png