Is Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 Really That Great?

Title: Is Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 Really That Great?

description: Poco is ready to launch Poco X3 Pro, which is the first smartphone to be launched with Qualcomm Snapdragon 860. It turns out, however, that the modern processor is the renamed Qualcomm Snapdragon 855+. Qualcomm has re-released the Snapdragon 885+ SoC as the Snapdragon 860 and the only difference between the two is the name. Besides, both mobile platforms have exactly the same spec sheet. Below we present a comparison. The Snapdragon 870 is also based on the Snapdragon 865+. However, the Snapdragon 870 offers a slightly higher CPU clock speed, and the Snapdragon 870 offers a high clock speed of 3.2 GHz, which is the highest clock speed even compared to the Snapdragon 888. Why the Snapdragon 860 / Snapdragon 855+ is no longer the flagship chipset Snapdragon 860 is based on on the production of 7 nm, which makes it an efficient processor. However, it's not as efficient as the Snapdragon 888 or Apple A14 Bionic, which are built using 5nm. FYI, the newly introduced Snapdragon 780G is based on 5nm technology.

It is worth mentioning that the Snapdragon 855+ is already two years old, it can no longer be considered a flagship processor as most of these exclusive features are already available on the Snapdragon 7 processor series. Considering the Snapdragon 860 is based on the Snapdragon 885+ with speed ranges , offers a peak CPU clock of 2.96 GHz, which is higher than the peak clock speed of the Snapdragon 888 CPU. However, due to the architectural and IPC (Manual Per Core) improvements, the lower clocked main core of the Snapdragon 888 will offer better performance with less power consumption. Performance at a very high level encourages you to choose this processor.

In terms of fast charging, the Snapdragon 860 supports Qualcomm Quick Charge 4+, not the latest Qualcomm Quick Charge 5, which means that a phone with Snapdragon 860 will not be as innovative as the Snapdragon 888 or even the Snapdragon 865+ SoC.