Qualcomm announced it’s most powerful processor “Snapdragon 865 Plus”

Qualcomm just announced it’s next flagship processor Snapdragon 865 Plus. Like last year’s Snapdragon 855 and Snapdragon 855+, the Snapdragon 865+ boosts the clock speeds. The Snapdragon 865+ comes with Kryo 585 cores clocked at 3.1GHz. That’s a 10% increase over the clock speeds delivered by the Snapdragon 865.

When it comes to GPU, the Snapdragon 865+ includes Adreno 650 which delivers 10% faster graphics rendering. the first phone with the Snapdragon 865+ is going to be the ROG Phone 3. Lenovo’s Legion Gaming Phone will also pack the Snapdragon 865+.

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The 865+ also features the new FastConnect 6900 suite which includes WiFi 6E and Bluetooth 5.2 on the 865+. But Snapdragon 865+ comes with WiFi 6 and Bluetooth 5.1 instead. It also includes Qualcomm X55 5G modem for 5G connectivity as well. That’s the same as the Snapdragon 865. We get support for 144Hz refresh rates, 8K video recording, 5G sub-6GHz and mmWave support.

We can see devices with the new Snapdragon 865+ will start coming out in the 3rd quarter of 2020.

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