Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 768G: Higher-Bin 765 Up To 2.8GHz (anandtech.com) 8
An anonymous reader quotes a report from AnandTech: Today alongside with the launch of the Xiaomi Redmi K30 5G Racing Edition, Qualcomm is announcing the new Snapdragon 768G SoC which powers the device. The new SoC is a direct follow-up to the Snapdragon 765G announced last December, and the two chips are very likely the same silicon design, with the new variant increasing the clock frequencies.
The new chip features the same Cortex-A76 cores in a 1+1 configuration (one Prime high-clocked core, and one medium clocked core), alongside 6 Cortex-A55 cores. The difference in CPU performance lies in the frequencies of the big cores which are now at up to 2.8GHz and 2.4GHz for the Performance and Middle core -- a more notable uplift from the 2.4 and 2.2GHz clocks of the Snapdragon 765G. GPU clock frequencies have also been increased, resulting in at 15% performance boost over the Snapdragon 765. The rest of the chip is seemingly identical to the Snapdragon 765 series.
The new chip features the same Cortex-A76 cores in a 1+1 configuration (one Prime high-clocked core, and one medium clocked core), alongside 6 Cortex-A55 cores. The difference in CPU performance lies in the frequencies of the big cores which are now at up to 2.8GHz and 2.4GHz for the Performance and Middle core -- a more notable uplift from the 2.4 and 2.2GHz clocks of the Snapdragon 765G. GPU clock frequencies have also been increased, resulting in at 15% performance boost over the Snapdragon 765. The rest of the chip is seemingly identical to the Snapdragon 765 series.
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Awesome, now make phones that don't suck! (Score:4, Insightful)
2020's crop of new phones all basically suck. Few of them are really any better than 2019's phones, and a lot of them are actually arguably WORSE , because manufacturers sacrificed features people actually WANT so they could make a 2020 flagship with 5G that hardly anyone actually cares about (because the 5G implementation is itself only partial, and 2 years from now, the phones' "5G" will be about as real-world useful as Wimax).
What would make a 2021 phone NOT suck?
1. 1440x2560+ resolution, with equivalent of VESA freesync or NVidia G-sync with at least 100hz, preferably 144. 2020 flagship phones all either settle for 1080-pixel width, or max out at 90hz. Once you've had 1440, there's just no going back to 1080. 90hz is an improvement over 60hz, but it still sucks for watching 24fps film-source content. 120hz is great, but if you're going to do 120hz, you might as well make it freesync/gsync while you're at it. Ditto, for 90hz... if you just can't bring yourself to offer 120hz panels, at LEAST include a third supported framerate that's an integer multiple of 24 (like 72 or 96).
2. Please, no more glass backs. Ever. A glass back is phone-suicide. If you're going to wrap the phone in a case to protect the glass back, then what's the POINT of HAVING a glass back at all? Or even bothering to PUT a Qi antenna ON the phone? Just put a couple of Pogo-pin contacts on the rear, publish the official spec, and let manufacturers put the Qi coil itself on the CASE.
3. 5,000mAH is the BARE minimum for a viable battery. 6,000-8,500 is better. IMHO, 9,000mAH is approximately the point where it really, truly starts becoming too heavy to comfortably hold the phone. I've had phones with extended battery cases everywhere between 3,500mAH and 10,000mAH. My favorites inevitably ended up being the ones that were between 6,000 and 8,500mAH. That said, I really wish they'd go back to just letting us have removable batteries. They can ship phones with ~6" screens with stock 5,000mAH batteries, and design the phones to allow things like NFC antennas and Qi coils to go on larger extended-battery cases. That way, there's no NEED to compromise. You can have a reasonable battery to use most of the time, and slap the big extended-battery back+case on it for days when you KNOW you're going to be away from power outlets all day.
4. microSD. Fuck Google and cloud storage. If people can take off the back to remove the battery, grafting a microSD slot onto the back of the motherboard adds basically nothing to the cost relative to the value it offers. The nice thing about microSD cards is, they're practically indestructible by anything short of fire. If your phone falls in the toilet or a lake & fries, there's a 99.999% chance that whatever was on the microSD card will still be fine. When your phone has only fixed storage, the sudden inability to boot your phone, view its display, connect to its USB port, etc. becomes a MUCH bigger problem. Plus, physically backing up 128gb of data over USB (even 3) takes HOURS. With microSD, you'll still want to do real backups occasionally, but reflashing your phone to a new ROM is ENORMOUSLY more convenient when all you have to do to keep the bulk of your data files safe is temporarily remove the microSD card.
Hell, what I'd REALLY love to see in a phone is a PAIR of microSD slots, and support for automatic background mirroring. Buy a half-dozen microSD cards, put two in the phone. Use it for a few days. Once per week, take out one of the cards and put it somewhere safe, then replace it with a different card before you go to bed so it can re-mirror overnight. With 8 microSD cards, you could have proper grandfather-father-son full backups going back for at least 3 months, keeping your last 4 weekly backups, one more weekly backup for each of the two months before that, plus the two cards currently in your phone.
5. If a flagship has a "waterfall" display, make a variant that doesn't. Waterfall displays are nice in theory, but they make it basically impossible to properly
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and how much extra time did it take to avoid every possible interesting feature? Mirrored SD slots? That takes stupid to an entirely new level.
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> That takes stupid to an entirely new level.
What, exactly, is stupid about it? A microSD slot costs almost NOTHING besides circuit board real estate... and in case you haven't looked recently, phones with large screens generally have THAT in relative abundance.
Yes, there are new interesting features on phones. IMHO, none of them adequately make up for abominations like glass backs, sealed batteries with very finite lifespans, and lack of storage that isn't inextricably bound to the phone and dependent u
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If the day comes that you really HAVE to move on to a different phone, keep the LG V20 in mind. Hardware-wise, it could have been a legitimate contender for a hypothetical "2016 Nexus 6X" (though, knowing Google, they would have forced LG to remove the microSD card because... well... Google. Sigh.)
The display is only IPS, but it's the same size and resolution as the 6P's. Pretty much everything else on the phone is equal or better spec-wise, and generally a next-year step up. It also has a 1040x128 second L
Ah Qualcomm (Score:1)
A company so good at what it does, its most recent processor can't even beat the processor in the iPhone 8—a 2-and-a-half year old and recently discontinued model—in single threaded performance. What are people even paying for?