With the arrival of ARM Cortex A15 based chipsets such as the nVidia Tegra 4, Qualcomm is revving up it's engines and getting ready to release to smartphones their new, enhanced Krait based Snapdragon chipsets. Introducing the new Snapdragon 800 and 600 series chipsets featuring the next-gen Krait 300 and 200 architecture based CPUs.
Snapdragon 800 and Krait 400
Please do not get confused here, Snapdragon 800 is the chipset and Krait 400 is the CPU which is integrated into the chipset. Having cleared that, we would like to (excitedly) tell you that the Krait 400 architecture is indeed the next-generation Krait architecture here to take on the ARM Cortex A15 CPUs.
The Krait 400 CPUs are promising nearly 60% increase in performance compared to current Snapdragon S4 Pro. That is thanks to the 2.3 GHz quad core configuration and clock speed (TSMC's new 28nm HPm process High-K + Metal Gate), faster 2x32 LPDDR3 memory interface, and also the new Adreno 330 GPU which promises to be 50% faster than the Adreno 320 GPU.
This chipset will come integrated with Qualcomm's 3rd generation LTE baseband (9x25) as well. All these features on a single die.
Snapdragon 600 and Krait 300
Krait 300 is built on TSMC's 28nm LP process like the original Krait CPUs, but has increased clock speeds and other clock-for-clock improvements. Other that that, the Adreno 320 GPU will run at a much higher clock speed (probably 20-40% higher) for increased GPU performance.
Together, we are looking at a near 40% increase in performance compared to the current generation Krait CPUs, perhaps just the right amount to fight off the upcoming Cortex A15 based army. However, Krait 300 has been built keeping a low power profile in mind.
The Snapdragon 600 chipset is the new name for the current Snapdragon APQ8064T, which was under the Snapdragon S4 Pro family. The CPU clock speed is at 1.9 GHz.
Snapdragon 800 and Krait 400
Please do not get confused here, Snapdragon 800 is the chipset and Krait 400 is the CPU which is integrated into the chipset. Having cleared that, we would like to (excitedly) tell you that the Krait 400 architecture is indeed the next-generation Krait architecture here to take on the ARM Cortex A15 CPUs.
The Krait 400 CPUs are promising nearly 60% increase in performance compared to current Snapdragon S4 Pro. That is thanks to the 2.3 GHz quad core configuration and clock speed (TSMC's new 28nm HPm process High-K + Metal Gate), faster 2x32 LPDDR3 memory interface, and also the new Adreno 330 GPU which promises to be 50% faster than the Adreno 320 GPU.
This chipset will come integrated with Qualcomm's 3rd generation LTE baseband (9x25) as well. All these features on a single die.
Snapdragon 600 and Krait 300
Krait 300 is built on TSMC's 28nm LP process like the original Krait CPUs, but has increased clock speeds and other clock-for-clock improvements. Other that that, the Adreno 320 GPU will run at a much higher clock speed (probably 20-40% higher) for increased GPU performance.
Together, we are looking at a near 40% increase in performance compared to the current generation Krait CPUs, perhaps just the right amount to fight off the upcoming Cortex A15 based army. However, Krait 300 has been built keeping a low power profile in mind.
The Snapdragon 600 chipset is the new name for the current Snapdragon APQ8064T, which was under the Snapdragon S4 Pro family. The CPU clock speed is at 1.9 GHz.