Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

The next opponent is none other than, Qualcomm, the former king of mobile chips that after 2014 without giving virtually no innovation came in 2015 with the new chip, which fell short of expectations due to their high temperatures.

Qualcomm's success gave him an advantage that should do well if they want to remain leaders. With Snapdragon 820 they seem to have done their homework better, as we return to the custom architectures, which gave good results in the past. Kyro based on the architecture of the A72, but promises to keep, one of the biggest drawbacks Snapdragon 810 best temperatures.

In addition, Adreno 530 GPU offers a huge leap from the current Adreno 430 top of the range. At the moment, we do not know if will be manufactured on 20 nm process and will be part of the client base rates in the process of Samsung 14nm FinFET. Leaks Geekbench suggest that the architecture offers a single-core Qualcomm 1732 and 4970 points in multi-core.