[MWC 2014] Qualcomm announces Snapdragon 801, 610 and 615

Qualcomm has announced a trio of SoC in MWC 2014. The first one is the Snapdragon 801, which found on the Xperia Z2 and Galaxy S5.



The Snapdragon 801 is just a minor update to the Snapdragon 800, however the CPU clock speed has been upgraded to 2.5 GHz and the GPU speed has upgraded to 578 MHz from 450 MHz.

The new Snapdragon 801 also adds support for the eMMC 5.0 standard, which allows the use of faster embedded flash storage, such as the new SanDisk iNAND Extreme.


As for the Snapdragon 610 and 615, both are the latest 64-bit chipsets from Qualcomm. However the Snapdragon 610 supports up to quad-core CPU while the Snapdragon 615 supports up to octa-core CPU, both chipsets come with Adreno 405 GPU too.

Currently no device is using Snapdragon 610 and Snapdragon 615 SoC, but we already seen the Xperia Z2 and Galaxy S5 using Snapdragon 801 SoC.

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