Stefan Mileschin

Gaming phones and VR target

Qualcomm has decided to announce an updated version of its flagship Snapdragon 855 7nm chip. It is simply called Snapdragon 855 Plus. The CPU is about four percent faster while the GPU gets a saucy 15 percent boost. It is clear that gaming phone manufacturers and VR enthusiast platform builders will be all over it.

For those of you who have been following Qualcomm long enough, this is not the first time that the company decided to announce an updated version of the mobile SoC platform. The Snapdragon 820 was followed by the faster Snapdragon 821, but this time Qualcomm decided to keep the same number and use the Plus as a differentiator.

Qualcomm has a clear vision of a Snapdragon Elite Gaming experience, especially when gaming in the 5G arena. Let's hope that this will become popular sooner rather than later. This announcement can be seen as Snapdragon 712 is a faster version of Snapdragon 710.

“Snapdragon 855 Plus will raise the bar for elite gamers with the increase in CPU and GPU performance and elevate experiences for 5G, gaming, AI and XR, which is something our OEM customers look to us to deliver”, said Kedar Kondap, vice president, product management, Qualcomm Technologies. “Snapdragon 855 Plus is our most advanced mobile platform to date and will build upon the success of the 2019 Android flagship Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 5G mobile platform.”


Snapdragon 855 Plus comes with X24 4G LTE integrated modem and matches a Snapdragon X50 5G solution for early adopters.

The Qualcomm Kryo 485 CPU Prime core clock speed goes up to 2.96GHz (Snapdragon 855 stops at 2.84 GHz) while the Qualcomm Adreno 640 GPU offers a 15% increase in performance.

https://fudzilla.com/news/mobile/490...plus-announced