Qualcomm: Kryo-core Snapdragon 820 leads to performance doubling

Qualcomm has released some information about the Kryo cores that will be part of the Snapdragon 820 processor for high-end smartphones. The self-designed cores are optimized for heterogeneous computing and should offer significant performance improvements.

Qualcomm already gave information about the dsp, gpu and malware detection of the Snapdragon 820 in blog posts and now it is the turn of the cpu core. The Snapdragon 810 was based on ARM-designed Cortex cores, but the 820 must again feature Qualcomm-developed cores, just like the Krait cores used in processors released before the Snapdragon 810.

The new name is Kryo, and these CPU cores and the Snapdragon 820 lead to a doubling of the performance compared to the Snapdragon 810, Qualcomm promises. This would not be accompanied by high consumption: the energy efficiency would also have doubled.

The processor would run at a maximum of 2.2GHz, support 64bit processing and be produced on a 14nm finfet process, probably from Samsung. Qualcomm reports that the soc is optimized for heterogeneous computing, which means that different workloads are dynamically allocated to different parts of the platform, such as the cpu, gpu, dsp or image processor. This should result in performance improvements and a decrease in consumption. With the Snapdragon 820, the Symphony System Manager leads to the optimal distribution of the calculations, but Qualcomm does not provide more information about this system manager yet.