Suspected Qualcomm Snapdragon 820-soc details appear online

The suspected details of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820-soc have appeared online in slides. Qualcomm has the soc made on a 14nm FinFet process, while its own microarchitecture should give a performance improvement of 35 percent.

The soc will be a quad-core, with the processor cores no longer based on an ARM Cortex core, but on a proprietary microarchitecture that it previously referred to as Kryo, but which is called Hydra in the slides. The four processor cores should deliver a performance improvement of 35 percent compared to the current cores. With the choice for a quad-core, Qualcomm would for the first time go back in number of processor cores for its high-end soc. The current Snapdragon 810 is an octacore. The soc has an Adreno 530 GPU, according to the slides that appeared on the Chinese social network Weibo.

The Snapdragon 820 supports dual channel lpdd4 memory at a maximum of 1866MHz. The soc supports USB 3.0, but USB 3.1 support does not seem to be included. The modem can process signals over 4g with speeds up to 450Mbit/s, lte cat 10.

In addition, there are all small elements that have been upgraded, such as support for storage in the form of eMMC 5.1 or ufs 3.0 and a ‘dedicated low power sensor’, which should reduce the power consumption of applications of sensors that must be always on. The soc will be produced on 14nm FinFet, which makes it obvious that the new Snapdragon will come from the Samsung factories.

It is rumored that Qualcomm will announce details about the Snapdragon 820 next week. It talked about the soc before, but the company gave few details at the time. According to the roadmap on one of the slides, the 820 should be released at the end of this year. It seems that devices with the Snapdragon 820 will appear next year.

The authenticity of the slides cannot be checked, but the information and layout look credible and are in line with what is known from Qualcomm’s plans.