Qualcomm Snapdragon 870
Benchmarks & Specs

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 is a high-end smartphone processor from Qualcomm based on the Kryo 585 architecture. The core design comes from ARM and is used under license from Qualcomm.

With 8 CPU cores in a hybrid structure and the use of a high-clocked Prime core, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 is fast enough for all the tasks you want to do with your smartphone. The Prime core clocks at up to 3.2 GHz. It is supplemented by three additional P-cores (Kryo 585 Gold) with a maximum clock frequency of 2.42 GHz.

4 Kryo 585 Silver CPU cores are available for background tasks or tasks with weak computing power. Although these only clock at 1.8 GHz, they are particularly energy efficient. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 also has the Qualcomm Hexagon 698 AI accelerator, which reaches 15 TOPS and significantly accelerates certain scenarios such as video and image processing.

The Adreno 650 is used as graphics in the Qualcomm Snapdragon 870. With 512 texture shaders and a theoretical FP32 computing power of 1.4 TFLOPS, it is fast enough to play modern smartphone games smoothly.

Devices with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 can be equipped with up to 16 GB of RAM. The CPU supports both the older LPDDR4X-4266 memory with a memory bandwidth of 34.1 GB/s and the newer LPDDR5-5500 memory, which has a maximum of 44 GB/s.

The manufacturer does not specify the TDP and thus the maximum energy consumption of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 870, but this can be estimated fairly well with special software. For the Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 we assume a TDP of 10 watts, which is identical to other high-end smartphone processors from other manufacturers.

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 is manufactured using a 7 nm process, which is relatively energy-saving.

• Solid performance for everyday use
• Capable integrated graphics
• Efficient 7 nm manufacturing
• Sufficient cache sizes