Lenovo presents first smartphone with Snapdragon 855-soc and 12GB-ram

The Chinese manufacturer Lenovo has presented the first smartphone with Qualcomm Snapdragon 855-soc. It is about the Z5 Pro GT. It is also the first phone with 12GB of RAM on board.

The Z5 Pro GT is a variant of the already existing Z5 Pro with Snapdragon 845-soc. In addition to the SOC, the working memory also differs. As standard, the manufacturer supplies the device with 6 or 8GB lpddr4x ram and 128 or 256GB storage, but there will be a variant with a memory of 12GB and a storage of 512GB. It will not go on sale upon release.

The Snapdragon 855 version will be available from January 24, according to Lenovo’s site. This makes it the first announced smartphone with the new soc for high-end smartphones. Qualcomm unveiled the 855 earlier this month.

The Snapdragon 855 has a prime core at up to 2.84GHz, with three performance cores at up to 2.42GHz. These cores are all derived from ARM’s new Cortex A76. There are also four energy-efficient ARM Cortex A55 cores with a clock speed of 1.8GHz. The processor cores share 2MB L3 cache. The Adreno 640 GPU would bring a twenty percent improvement in performance. According to Qualcomm, this GPU makes the Snapdragon 855 a lot more suitable for games, by enabling higher performance. The chip should enable HDR gaming, including support for 10bit color, the rec2020 color space, Dolby Vision, hdr10+ and Vulkan 1.1.

The Z5 Pro GT is only available in China and costs from 2698 yuan, converted about 343 euros. The version with 12GB of memory will cost 4398 yuan, converted around 550 euros. Lenovo has for some time no longer released smartphones under its own name in the Benelux and only uses the Motorola brand name. The base version of the Z5 attracted attention earlier this year when Lenovo pretended that the device had no notch in the screen, after which it turned out that Lenovo had lied and the phone came out with a so-called notch in the display.