Snapdragon 616 benchmark shows significant improvement over the Snapdragon 615
A few weeks ago, Qualcomm unveiled three new SoCs, the Snapdragon 212, 412 and 616, all designed for the budget-friendly mobile market. The Snapdragon 616 being the most powerful of the three was intended as a small upgrade over the successful Snapdragon 615, and benchmarks actually show a significant improvement despite the two SoCs being almost identical. The 616 has a total of eight cores, with two quad-core processors running independently. Both the 615 and 616 have a high-performance Cortex-A53 quad-core processor running at 1.7GHz. The difference is found in the low-power Cortex-A53 of the 616 that operates at 1.2GHz per core, compared to 1.0GHz per core in the 615. Although the improvement seems small on paper, an AnTuTu benchmark shows a significant performance improvement compared to the 615. The 616 yielded 31,015 points while powering a Huawei smartphone while the Snapdragon 615 has an average score of about 26,000 points.
Other new improvements of the Snapdragon 615 included support for 21 MP cameras with video recording capabilities of up to 1080p@60fps, X5 LTE, and a 64-bit architecture.
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