Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Benchmarks: How fast is this compared to Snapdragon 855 Plus?


Qualcomm introduced its flagship Snapdragon 865 Mobile platform at its Snapdragon Tech Summit 2019 earlier this month. The latest flagship SoC finally moves from A76 to A77-based Kryo 585 cores arranged in a tri-cluster architecture that includes one Kryo 585 Prime A77-based CPU clocked at up to 2.84GHz, three Kryo 585 Performance A77-based CPUs clocked at up to 2.42GHz and the other four Kryo 585 Efficiency A55-based CPUs are clocked at up to 1.80GHz. It is fabricated using the Samsung 7nm EUV (7LPP) Process Technology.

This promises up to 25% performance improvement, over the Snapdragon 855. It also packs the new Qualcomm Adreno 650 GPU that promises up to 25% overall performance boost compared to Adreno 640 GPU in the Snapdragon 855.

The Snapdragon 865 is capable of operating at whopping speeds of up to 2 gigapixels per second, is capable of shooting 8K 30fps video, and capturing up to massive 200-megapixel photos. The 5th Generation Qualcomm AI Engine delivers 15 TOPS (Trillion Operations Per Second) of AI performance and at the heart is the Qualcomm Hexagon Tensor Accelerator that has 4 times the TOPS performance of the previous Tensor Accelerator.

We checked out the Snapdragon 865 refrence device with a 6-inch (1440 x 2880 pixels) QHD+ screen, 12GB RAM and 64GB storage. It is the first Snapdragon SoC to support LPDDR5 2750MHz, 4x16bit memory. Here is the benchmark comparison.

AnTuTu Benchmark 8

As expected the Snapdragon 865 tops the AnTuTu 8 above the iPhone 11.

Snapdragon 865 grabs the second spot in the Geekbench 5 Single-Core benchmark behind the iPhone 11.

Snapdragon 865 grabs the second spot in the Geekbench 5 Multi-Core benchmark as well, closely followed by the iPhone 11.

We also ran other benchmarks on the phone. Here are the values.

  • PCMark 2.0 – 12215
  • GFXBench Tessellation Offscreen – 137 fps
  • GFXBench 1080p ALU 2 Offscreen – 200 fps
  • GFXBench 1080p Driver Overhead 2 Offscreen – 125 fps
  • AndroBench Sequential Read speed – 1447.69 MB/s

Xiaomi will introduce Mi 10 with Snapdragon 865 for Q1 2020, OPPO’s 865-powered phone is also coming in Q1 2020, ZTE earlier today confirmed Axon 10s Pro 5G with Snapdragon 865 and X55 for the first half 2020, Vivo is also coming up to 865-powered phone next year, Motorola 5G smartphone with Snapdragon 865 will be introduced in early 2020. Even though 5G has not been launched in India yet, realme already said that it will launch 5G smartphones with Qualcomm Snapdragon 5G SoC in 2020. Samsung Galaxy S11 series should also use Qualcomm’s latest flagship SoC in sel

Other Chinese OEMs, ODMs and brands including BlackShark, Coolpad, iQOO, Lenovo, Meizu, nubia RedMagic, OnePlus, Smartisan, TCL, Wingtech, and 8848 plan to use Qualcomm’s latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 5G mobile platforms in their 5G mobiles devices for 2020 and beyond.

Srivatsan contributed to this post


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