- A recent leak may have given us some details about the Snapdragon 875.
- The leak apparently describes the CPU layout and a few more tidbits.
Qualcomm is hosting its Snapdragon Summit early next month, which will showcase the Snapdragon 875 processor. This will be the company’s newest flagship and is expected to power a range of high-end phones in 2021.
Now the common digital chat station has released some obvious specs for Weibo. Specifically, they claim that the Snapdragon 875 will feature a Cortex-X1 CPU core at 2.84 GHz, three Cortex-A78 cores at 2.42 GHz, and four Cortex-A55 cores at 1.8 GHz. Check out a machine-translated version of the post below.
The leaker also claims that the chipset is based on a 5nm process, features an Adreno 660 GPU, and has improved cache and memory bandwidth. Additionally, they suggest that while the Snapdragon 875 is still class-leading in performance, it could instead be geared towards lower power consumption.
These obvious specifications are roughly in line with our expectations as we expect a switch to the 5nm process and the introduction of Cortex-X1 and Cortex-A78 CPU cores by Qualcomm. Arm said the Cortex-A78 should deliver 20% more power than the Cortex-A77 (although the former only allows for a 7% increase) thanks to general improvements and the smaller manufacturing process. However, the Cortex-X1 will deliver even bigger improvements than the Cortex-A78 and potentially narrow the gap between Qualcomm and the Apple chipsets.
The chip manufacturer has previously also presented the X60 modem. The history as well as some LinkedIn entries show that the new modem is displayed next to the flagship processor. It remains to be seen whether this will be an integrated solution that would theoretically lead to better energy efficiency.
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