Qualcomm Snapdragon 898 Spotted on Geekbench

Sep. 4, 2021

Qualcomm’s next flagship chipset for mobile phones, the Snapdragon 898, is right around the corner. After tipster Ice Universe revealed a fewkey specifications of Snapdragon 898a couple of months back, the chipset has now passed through Geekbench.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 898 on Geekbench

For this test device, the Snapdragon 898 CPU configuration is as follows: a single 2.42GHz Cortex X2 core, 3 x 2.17GHz Cortex-A710 cores, and 4 x 1.79GHz Cortex-A510 cores. However, we already know from the previous leak that the X2 core could go as high as 3.09 GHz. Since the X2 core will be 16 percent faster than the Cortex X1 core that goes up to 2.995GHz in Snapdragon 888+, the numbers in this particular Geekbench listing should be taken with a grain of salt.

Another tidbit we know about the SD 898 is that it will be using Samsung’s 4nm manufacturing process. It is also expected to feature the Adreno 730 GPU and theSnapdragon X65 5Gmodem. We will know the specifics when Qualcomm unveils the chipset later this year, so stay tuned for updates.

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