Last week, a report published on Business Korea claimed that that the Snapdragon 810 is allegedly having technical issues such as overheating along with memory and GPU bugs, and that is delayed. Qualcomm has issued official statement denying those allegations and said “everything with Snapdragon 810 remains on track and we expect commercial devices to be available in 1H 2015.”
That’s great news for all of you out there who are expecting to upgrade to a 2015 flagship with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 chipset. Most 2015 flagship devices including the ones from Sony, Samsung, LG, Motorola and HTC are expected to sport the latest Qualcomm chip which is the first high-end 64-bit compatible chipset from Qualcomm manufactured on a 20nm process and uses ARMv8-A instruction set.
Last week, it was also reported that the anticipated Samsung Galaxy S6, LG G4, and Sony Xperia Z4 flagships may get delayed due to some new found issues with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 chipset.
As per the report carried by Business Korea, Qualcomm’s flagship chipset reportedly heated up at certain voltage levels, resulting in under performance. The company’s Adreno 430 GPU was said to be giving problems due to errors found in the drivers. The RAM controller of the application processor was also noted to be facing issues.
The new Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 reportedly includes four Cortex A57 cores with four Cortex A53 cores. While the Cortex A57 is high-performance cores, the Cortex A53 focus more on power efficiency. While the Cortex A57 is said to be clocked at 1.9GHz, the Cortex A53 is clocked at 1.5GHz.The CPU will come in an eight-core big LITTLE configuration, just like Samsung’s previous chips, as well as its next-gen Exynos 7 Octa.
The new Adreno 430 GPU is also a beast and offers up to 30% higher graphics performance and up to 100% faster GPGPU compute performance compared to the Adreno 420 GPU on Snapdragon 805 chipset.
Qualcomm never pinned down a precise timeframe for the flagship’s launch, vaguely hinting “H1 2015” availability. Qualcomm didn’t deny the thermal woe speculation, insisting they don’t comment on rumours. Will high-end Androids slated for CES and MWC announcements be able to accommodate the S810, is still needed to be seen.
