Tuesday, March 8, 2016

AnTuTu Releases Top 10 Smartphone Chipsets, Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 Wins Big

The story is similar this year, and while the Samsung Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge are powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 State-side, the same devices carry an in-house Exynos 8890 SoC in the UK.

Samsung launched the two new phones last month in Barcelona, the Australian models, contain a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 chipset. But for the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge, Samsung announced last week that it will sell two different variants, one of which will use the latest Snapdragon 820.

Well, Samsung has chose to sell the two variants depending upon the region of sale, and there has been confusion over who gets what. The real question, however, is whether the lower score on the Samsung Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge powered by the Exynos 8890 makes a difference in real life usage scenarios.

That means it's the Exynos 8890 for America's Frosted Hat. Qualcomm's latest chip supports the standard, while Samsung's Exynos does not.

AnTuTu, one of the most popular benchmarks used for testing smartphones and tablets, has just released the top 10 rankings for CPUs and GPUs.

Given the Snapdragon 810's notorious over-heating problems, however, it was probably a good decision; but Qualcomm set to come back in full swing this year, obtaining a deal that sees US-bound Galaxy S7s equipped with their SoC. This, however, seems to have created major discrepancies between the two models' performances; according to AnTuTu tests, a negligible 5% difference sets the two models apart as far as CPU power goes, while up to a massive 38% gap separates the greatly superior Snapdragon 820 from the seemingly under-performing Exynos 8890 in GPU-related benchmarks...

While specifications of new flagship models to be released by most vendors for the first half of 2016 are still unavailable, these coming models mostly will be powered by Snapdragon chips, the sources added.

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Source: AnTuTu Releases Top 10 Smartphone Chipsets, Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 Wins Big

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