Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 benchmark tests impressive against current offerings

Qualcomm had unveiled the latest Snapdragon 835 chipset at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this year, and Samsung will apparently be the first to launch its smartphone integrated with the latest chipset. It is touted to be 20 per cent faster and 25 per cent more power efficient than the Snapdragon 820 chipset. Now, the Snapdragon 835 chipset’s first benchmark results are out, and it has also been compared with the Snapdragon 821, 820, Exynos 8890, and the Kirin 960 to demonstrate how much improvement the chipset brings with respect to overall performance, and battery life.

Android Police’s David Ruddock ran benchmark tests on a Qualcomm smartphone reference platform running on Android 7.1.1 Nougat integrated with Snapdragon 835. For comparison, Ruddock ran the same tests on the Google Pixel XL running on Android 7.1.1 Nougat (Snapdragon 821 SoC), OnePlus 3T running on Android 7.0 Nougat (Snapdragon 821 SoC), Samsung Galaxy S7 running on Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow (Exynos 8890 chip), Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge running Android 7.0 Nougat (Snapdragon 820), and Huawei P10 running on Android 7.0 Nougat (Kirin 960).

The benchmarking platforms of Geekbench 4, GFXBench GL Benchmark, AnTuTu, 3D Mark, and PCMark v1.0 results all ranked Snapdragon 835’s performance the highest in comparison to other chipsets. In GeekBench particularly, the Snapdragon 835 scored over 40 per cent more than the Snapdragon 821 in multi-core tests. In the case of single-core tests, the 835 won with a margin of 10 per cent.

This means, the Snapdragon 835 is a step forward for Qualcomm, and the Samsung Galaxy S8 is going to be the first smartphone to have this chip. The Galaxy S8 is all set for launch at the company’s Galaxy Unpacked 2017 event on March 29 in New York City.