Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 with Adreno 530 Graphics Official Now

Qualcomm has announced its newest and powerful SoC Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 with Adreno 530 GPU on board. As per the company’s sayings the new chipset will be 40 percent better in graphics while consuming 40 percent less power than the Adreno 430 graphics included in today’s Snapdragon 810 chips.

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Coming on to the discussion, Qualcomm has provided the Snapdragon 820 with the fastest smartphone graphics processing unit, Adreno 530 ,which will consume less power and will give more performance.

We can expect the devices with the latest Snapdragon 820 and Adreno 530 GPU by the first half of 2016 while the Exynos 7420 is available now.

There’s an another version of GPU that Qualcomm is bringing and that is the Adreno 510. it will ship with its Snapdragon 618 and 620 SoCs.

The GPU is also said to support OpenGL ES 3.2 on certain platforms, meaning that the upcoming Vulkan API, and all of its benefits, will be supported in the future as well. GPU package, the Snapdragon 820 will also now support external 4K displays with a 60fps output.

Features of Snapdragon 820

  • Up to 40 percent lower power consumption and 40 percent faster performance for both graphics and GPGPU compute when compared to the Adreno 430;
  • Leading-edge capabilities in graphics and compute APIs including OpenGL ES 3.1+AEP (Android Extension Pack), Renderscript, as well as the new OpenCL 2.0 and Vulkan standards. Vulkan minimizes driver overhead and enables multi-threaded performance on mobile and embedded platforms;
  • Support for 64-bit virtual addressing, allowing for shared virtual memory (SVM) and efficient co-processing with 64 bit CPUs;
  • Improved fine-grain power management, new rendering, compositing and compression techniques to enable higher performance at lower power consumption and reduced DRAM bandwidth;
  • Up to 4K HEVC video support at 60fps over HDMI 2.0 to Rec. 2020 ultra-high definition (UHD) displays and TVs;
  • Improved Qualcomm® EcoPixâ„¢ and Qualcomm® TruPaletteâ„¢ support for longer battery life and superior pixel quality; and
  • Software compatibility between Adreno 530 and Adreno 510.
  • Superior image quality, with more natural skin tones via advanced, 14-bit dual ISPs supporting up to 3 simultaneous cameras (e.g. one facing the user, and two rear facing), and up to 25 megapixels at 30 frames per-second with zero shutter lag;
  • Improved photos with Qualcomm Spectra ISP’s flexible hybrid autofocus framework and multi-sensor fusion algorithms supporting next generation computational photography;
  • Improved power efficiency when compared to previous generations, better noise immunity and higher throughput via advanced compression techniques and use of the latest MIPI serial C-PHY interface; and
  • Next generation Computer Vision and other use cases via direct-to-DSP raw bayer data streaming and pre-processing capabilities.

We expect more details about the power consumption by Qualcomm.

Simranpal Singh
Simranpal Singh
With a decade-long journey in the tech industry, I've been actively engaged in tech reporting across various reputable publications. He currently works as a Web Developer at RightNode Media and pursues his hobby of writing on GoAndroid. Enjoy travelling, and always excited about new tech trends. He actively contributes on GizmoChina and GChromecast Hub.

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