Snapdragon 835 includes Kryo 280 cores at up to 2.45GHz

Some slides that have been put on the internet show the details of the upcoming Snapdragon 835 processors for the high-end smartphones of 2017. The processor contains eight Kryo 280 cores, four of which run at a maximum of 2.45GHz. There is also a gigabit modem.

The cluster of the four powerful Kryo 280 cores contains 2MB of L2 cache and should provide 20 percent higher performance in applications such as VR and web browsing. The cluster of four energy-efficient cores runs at a maximum of 1.9GHz and the amount of L2 cache has doubled to 1MB compared to the predecessor.

The GPU is the Adreno 540, which would perform 25 percent better than the Adreno 530 of the Snapdragon 820. The GPU supports DirectX 12, OpenGL ES and Vulkan. The display processing unit can process 10bit 4k video at 60fps and the video processing unit can render 10bit hevc 4k image foveated for VR applications.

Compared to the Snapdragon 801 of 2014, consumption has decreased by 50 percent and the size of the soc has also been reduced, mainly thanks to the switch from a 14nm to a 10nm process. Finally, the slides that Videocardz publishes point to the presence of the X16 LTE modem. Qualcomm calls this the first modem of the gigabit class. The Snapdragon 820 has an X12 LTE modem with maximum download speeds of 600Mbit/s but with the cat. 16 modem of the Snapdragon 835, smartphones therefore seem to support 4G gigabit speeds.