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Monday, 15 July 2019

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus Mobile Platform with overclocked CPU, 15% faster GPU announced, will power ASUS ROG Phone II

Qualcomm has just announced its latest Snapdragon 855 Plus Mobile Platform, and this is an incremental upgrade to the Snapdragon 855 Mobile Platform. According to Qualcomm, this is primarily aimed at providing an elite gaming experience as it comes with an increase in CPU and GPU performance, 5G, gaming, AI and XR. The Snapdragon 855 Plus features Qualcomm Kryo 485 CPU built on Arm Cortex Technology now runs on a clock speed of up to 2.96GHz compared to the Snapdragon 855 which runs on a clock speed of up to 2.84GHz. The graphics duties are handled by Qualcomm Adreno 640 GPU that offers a 15% increase compared to Snapdragon 855. While the bump in numbers is not significant compared to Snapdragon 855, Qualcomm says that the Snapdragon 855 Plus will be ideal for gaming and will raise the bar for elite gamers. The Vulkan 1.1 Graphics Driver is now 20% more power efficient than Open GL ES and this Mobile Platform also features software enhancements such as Game Jank Reducer, Game Fast Loader, Game AntiCheat Extensions, and more. The updated AI Engine now offers a total capacity of more than 7 trillion operations per second (7 TOPs). It still does not come with a built-in ...