Qualcomm Snapdragon 850 ARM based SoC for Windows laptops, Qualcomm Adreno 630 GPU

Qualcomm Snapdragon 850

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 850 Mobile Compute Platform (or SD850) is a ARM based SoC for Windows laptops. It is a higher clocked version (3 versus 2.8 GHz) of the Snapdragon 845 for smartphones and also manufactured in 10 nm LPP FinFET at TSMC. It integrates 4x Kryo 385 cores (Cortex-A75) at up to 2.95 GHz (max) for performance and 4x Kryo 385 (at 1.8 GHz?) for efficiency. Furthermore offers an X20 LTE modem (Cat. 18 1.2 Gbps downlink, Cat 13 150 Mbps uplink), ac-WiFi and a dual-channel 32-Bit 1866 MHz LPDDR4x memory controller.

The performance of the Snapdragon 850 in Windows is in theory similar to a Intel Core i5 of the Y-series (e.g. Core i5-7y54). However, this is only the case for native ARM64 compiled applications and games. 32-bit applications that are not compiled for the ARM architecture only run in an emulation and perform much worse (e.g. see Cinebench R11.5 benchmark). 64-bit Intel/AMD apps are not supported at all.

The chip is very power efficient as its produced at TSMC in the modern 10nm LPP process. Therefore, laptops using the Snapdragon 850 can be passively cooled (no fan) and should not throttle under constant load.

Series	Qualcomm Snapdragon
Codename	Cortex-A75 / A55 (Kryo 385)
Series: Snapdragon Cortex-A75 / A55 (Kryo 385)
Clock Rate	2750 - 2960 MHz
Level 1 Cache	768 KB
Level 2 Cache	1.5 MB
Level 3 Cache	2 MB
Number of Cores / Threads	8 / 8
Manufacturing Technology	10 nm
Features	X20 LTE Modem, Adreno 630 GPU
GPU	Qualcomm Adreno 630
64 Bit	64 Bit support
Architecture	ARM
Announcement Date	02/12/2018 = 2472 days old
Product Link (external)	www.qualcomm.com

 

 

Qualcomm Adreno 630

The Qualcomm Adreno 630 is an integrated graphics card in the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 SoC for smartphones. It was introduced in early 2018 and can be found in high-end Android smartphones. 

According to Qualcomm 30% faster than the old Adreno 540 in the Snapdragon 835 with 30% less power consumption.