New details of the snapdragon 8150 show ingenious design

Qualcomm is a regular in the headlines, although not always in a flattering way, as its news ranges from antitrust lawsuits to lags behind its rivals. The Snapdragon 8150 seems to put the company back on top, with a surprising performance jump that could be thanks to a single change.

Snapdragon 8150 makes a change in the way its big cores work

Unlike MediaTek, Qualcomm isn't jumping on the deca-core train yet. No wonder since it was also late for the octa-core party when his rival did. The Snapdragon 8150 will still be divided between four energy efficient cores and four high performance cores. The low power ones sound familiar, made up of “Kryo Silver” cores with 128 KB L2 cache running at 1.8 GHz each. It's almost like the same generation of Kryo 835 that Qualcomm uses in the Snapdragon 845.

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Things get a little interesting in the most energy hungry cores. Instead of a four-core group, there will actually be two groups. One group has three “Kryo Gold” cores with 256 KB of L2 cache running at a maximum of 2, 419 GHz. And there is another Kryo Gold that has never been heard of before, with double the L2 cache at 512 KB and a maximum clock speed increased to 2, 842 GHz. This is a design that has not been seen until now, and that seems quite interesting on paper.

This configuration, in theory, would mean that the Snapdragon 8150 would be smarter in terms of the cores it will use for which tasks, which could, in theory, again translate into smarter battery usage. But the question is whether it will be enough to shake Apple's knees. Qualcomm plans to introduce the Snapdragon 8150 next week on December 4. What do you expect from this Snapdragon 8150?

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