Snapdragon 8150 CPU details surface

24 November 2018
The leak confirms the new 1 + 3 + 4 core, tri-clusted design that Qualcomm is moving to.

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Kost, 24 Nov 2018performance increase every year by 20%, 30% ... more and mo... more1 - If they do that, then they would immediately get out of business. They're competing in the market so they can't stay the same on their grounds for long, not even a second or two.

2 - Why would they? What would be the purpose? Those claims are at least half true in most cases, and a 'small' progress is still a progress. I'd take that 5% improvement over absolutely NO improvement for the next generation.

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    • r33fd
    • LaE
    • 24 Nov 2018

    If you think about it most Android Apps have a single big thread so it makes sense to have one super core.
    Would have been nice to see more cache memory though.

      Anonymous, 24 Nov 2018I'm not sure why people care so much about modern SOC perfo... moreI agree with you very much! :)

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        • Kost
        • 8w0
        • 24 Nov 2018

        performance increase every year by 20%, 30% ... more and more . I am wondering if will come a day, that they say: sorry guys but this year without changes.

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          • Anonymous
          • pdH
          • 24 Nov 2018

          LG Superfan, 24 Nov 2018Why one super core? Why not two of them and two mid and fou... moreThan one core is used for a couple of seconds and normally the three cores handle the longer time frame hard tasks...

            That's interesting. We will see how it performs and how often the powerful core activates.

              Kiyasuriin, 24 Nov 2018I did spot a mistake guys. The correct order is the beefy c... moreYou are absolutely right. Mistakes were made and corrected :) Thank you.

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                • Anonymous
                • s2g
                • 24 Nov 2018

                I'm not sure why people care so much about modern SOC performance. Tons of people act like synthetic benchmarks matter when in real-world situations nobody would be able to tell the difference between a decent midrange SOC like a SD 660 and a SD 845.

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                  • Anonymous
                  • JpI
                  • 24 Nov 2018

                  It will be 5nm, not 7

                    Wonder if having half the cache sizes for the medium cluster than the kirin 980 will hurt performance...

                      The four bigger cores are A76 and smaller ones are A55, same as Kirin 980.

                      While the kirin has four performance cores split as 2+2 (two 2.6 Ghz + two 1.92 Ghz)... Qualcomm seems to be adopting the 1+3 route (one 2.84 Ghz + three 2.42 Ghz).

                      So qualcomm chip will end up with higher performance (both single-core and multi core, as evidenced by the recently surfaced geekbench benchmarks).

                      Compare with A75, A76 yield around 40% higher single-core performance for the same clock speed. So the 2.84 Ghz A76 will beat the 2.8 Ghz A75(of SD845) by around 42%. Even the three 'slower' 2.42 Ghz A76 cores would be faster than the three remaining performance cores of SD845 (All four performance cores on SD845 are 2.8 Ghz A75 derivative) by around 20%.

                      Efficiency cores on both the SD845 and SD8150 are exactly the same in terms of architecture and clock speed (four 1.77 Ghz A55 derivative cores), however with a more efficient 7nm manufacturing process, we should see subtantial improvement in battery endurance.

                      Information on GPU performance is scarce at the moment, but if the track record of Qualcomm is anything to go by, we may see ~50% more performance in gaming benchmarks.

                        Kiyasuriin, 24 Nov 2018Hm. So... 2.85 GHz Kryo 485G, 3x2.4GHz Kryo 485P and 4x1.8G... more2.4Ghz for the "medium" cluster is far from efficient.

                        Unless that's just a "boost" for a couple seconds i cant see it been sustainable.

                          Why one super core? Why not two of them and two mid and four lower cores? Will that lone core be even used?

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                            • 24 Nov 2018

                            Well humans do mistakes.
                            For me is enough knowing its a lot faster than A12 bionic from that overpriced apple which loosing sales everywhere thus they do everything they could to dehonest other companies such as Huawei.

                              taghack, 24 Nov 2018Move along, nothing to see here :)I did spot a mistake guys. The correct order is the beefy core at 2.842 GHz with 512 KB of Cache
                              Then the mediums at 2.419 GHz with 256 KB (3 Cores)
                              And last and not least is the Kryo silver at 1.8 GHz with the 128 KB of cache.
                              We're all humans. We do mistakes.

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                                • Anonymous
                                • DkB
                                • 24 Nov 2018

                                So, the 8150 could be the least powerful cpu compared to the Kirin 980 and the next Exynos? All of those have 2 high and 2 mid performance, while this is going to have just one high and 3 mid performance cores?? I have no idea, just guessing!

                                  MadMel, 24 Nov 2018lol...Snapdragon 8150 article or The Twilight Zone here on ... moreMove along, nothing to see here :)

                                    Hm. So... 2.85 GHz Kryo 485G, 3x2.4GHz Kryo 485P and 4x1.8GHz Kryo 485S.
                                    Not bad... it actually has a potencial for being MUCH MORE efficient. (Reminds me Samsung's Scaling system though)
                                    The Adreno 640 is a beast.

                                      lol...Snapdragon 8150 article or The Twilight Zone here on gsma:))

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