Just hours ago, Qualcomm announced its latest flagship processor, the Snapdragon 855 Plus. Now, seems like Realme has already started working on its next smartphone with the new chipset.
Realme has teased a Snapdragon 855 Plus-powered smartphone soon after the Qualcomm new Chipset announcement on Weibo. The post says “Hello, Snapdragon 855+” which confirms that Realme will launch a Snapdragon 855 Plus smartphone in the future.
Apart from Realme, some other brands like Xiaomi, Black Shark, nubia Red Magic, Vivo NEX, and Vivo iQOO have also posted on Weibo suggesting that they will also launch their Snapdragon 855 Plus phones in future as well.
Meanwhile, Asus has already confirmed that its upcoming ROG Phone 2 will be powered by the Snapdragon 855 Plus chipset. The gaming smartphone will go official on July 23 in China.
Talking about the new chipset from Qualcomm, it comes with eight Kryo 485 CPU that runs at a clock speed of 2.96 GHz as compared to the 2.8 GHz present in the Snapdragon 855. The Adreno 640 GPU comes with 15 percent increased performance as compared to the one present in the standard version.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus comes with improved Vulkan 1.1 Graphics Driver that is 20 percent more power efficient than OpenGL ES. The processor also features software enhancements such as Game Jank Reducer, Game AntiCheat Extensions, Game Fast Load and more.