Snapdragon 845 benchmarks show an incredible GPU, faster CPU

Before phones with the Snapdragon 845 chipset hit the market, Qualcomm is offering a taste of its performance with a Qualcomm Reference Design platform.

The new chip uses new CPU core designs based on Cortex-A75 and A55. There’s four of each in the Snapdragon 845, but they are no longer split in two separate clusters. This is the first SoC to support DynamIQ, which allows for a finer voltage/frequency control.

The max frequency was increased to 2.8GHz (for the big cores), up from 2.47GHz on the Snapdragon 835. No maker ran the 835 at max clock speed though and we expect the same this year (the last few hundred megahertz are rarely worth it in terms of battery cost).

So, clock speeds aside, the Snapdragon 845 processor shows major improvements in both integer and floating point tasks. This chip is built on a 10nm LPP process, which should allow for slightly higher clock speed for similar power usage so the real world difference between the S845 and S835 should be even more pronounced.

  
Snapdragon 845 Geekbench 4 score (normalized to MHz): Single-core • Multi-core

Benchmarks by AnandTech. The CPU benchmark scores are normalized to MHz to account for varying clockspeeds.

The new GPU – Adreno 630 – is quite impressive as well. GFXBench puts it and Apple’s latest GPU in a class of their own. The Reference Design device traded blows with the iPhone X, both left a sizable gap to other Androids (including Huawei’s Kirin 970-powered Mate 10 Pro).

   
Snapdragon 845 GPU benchmarks: GFX 2.7 • GFX 3.1 • 3D Mark Sling Shot

Impressive stuff from Qualcomm, the Snapdragon 845 is currently the fastest chipset to be used in Android phones. Of course, Samsung is yet to let people benchmark its Exynos 9810.

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Oppo A71 (2018) launches with Snapdragon 450, "AI Beauty Recognition Technology"

The Oppo A71 was quietly announced last September, but it looks like it was a short-lived model. That's because today the Oppo A71 (2018) became official in Pakistan, ahead of a probably imminent launch in India.

The A71 (2018) is very similar to its predecessor, but packs in a couple of improvements (and, oddly, 1GB less RAM). It has the same 5.2" 720p display, 16GB of expandable storage, dual-SIM functionality, 13 MP f/2.2 main camera, 5 MP f/2.4 selfie shooter, and 3,000 mAh battery as the original A71. It's even got the exact same dimensions as that, measuring 148.1 x 73.8 x 7.6 mm, and weighs the same 137g.

What's new is the Snapdragon 450 chipset, replacing the old MediaTek MT6750. Qualcomm's SoC comes with the Adreno 506 GPU and a CPU with eight Cortex-A53 cores clocked at up to 1.8 GHz, and should enable an improvement in app starting speed of 12.5% on average compared to last year's A71.

This chip is paired with 2GB of RAM in the Oppo A71 (2018), and the phone runs ColorOS 3.2 based on Android 7.1 Nougat. It's an ever so slightly newer version of the UI overlay compared to the ColorOS 3.1 featured in the original.

That means you can use Oppo's "AI Beauty Recognition Technology", which is "based on a global image database that serves as an experienced photographer, who knows your beauty and will offer the most suitable beautify effect for you", according to the official website.

The Oppo A71 (2018) will be offered in gold and black. It's priced at PKR 19,899 in Pakistan, which at the moment means $179 or €144.

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