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hello my name's Gary Sims and this is Andrew authority now one of the best-known mobile processor manufacturers is Qualcomm and Qualcomm of course make the Snapdragon range of processors and you can find these processes and everything from low end phones mid-range phone flagship phones tablets and even laptops now of course all these mobile processors have different numbers on them eight four five and six three six and sometimes all these numbers can be a bit confusing so today I want to give you an overview of Qualcomm range of mobile processors so if you want to find out more please let me explain okay before we dive into the details of the individual processes the core core make let's have a quick look at what is a mobile processor more technically we should call it a system on a chip because it's not just a CPU a central processing unit and it's not just a graphics processor or a GPU a graphics processing unit it's actually made of a whole bunch of different components so you have a CPU multiple calls you have a GPU you also probably have an image processor for processing those pictures from your cameras you will also have a modem a 4G LTE modem of some kind then of course is a memory interface that will go out to lpddr4 or maybe LP ddr3 memory then of course you've got wireless communications like bluetooth and you've got things like Wi-Fi and then of course on top of that you've got other functionality like let's say quick charge of Qualcomm have their quick charge system and as well as all those different components and designs the actual physical chip can be manufactured on different manufacturing processes which we quote in nanometers it's basically the measure of the gap between the transistors and the smaller the gap the more power-efficient the processor is and the higher speeds can be achieved so older chips might be on 28 nanometers and then we kind of came down to 14 nanometers and 10 nanometers and the bleeding-edge processes of today now at the end of 2018 are kind of about seven nanometers so looking at the CPU side for a moment all of coal compromises have multi-core designs and those designs mainly come from armed the company of course that is responsible for the ARM architecture now Qualcomm have a special license with arm which is allows them to actually take the design and tweak it slightly there are some parameters that can be tweaked it's not you can't do a redesign but there are different things that can be tweaked and they're allowed to market it under their own brand which in Qualcomm's case becomes the cryo so they call them their cryo cpu calls and most of Qualcomm process as I said our multi-core normally they would be in an optical setup there would be for high performance calls and for low performance calls however Qualcomm do have some variations amongst that including some that have two high-performance cores and six power efficiency cause I will code to look into that when we look at the individual processors in a moment alpha graphics Qualcomm used their own in-house Adreno designed GPU of each new generation of proteases that come out they are increasing the performance and the power efficiency of those current GPUs and so every year we're expecting a performance increase and a power efficiency increase and this is all handled in-house by Qualcomm and they don't sell that GPU to anybody else so when you buy a Snapdragon processor or a device with a Snapdragon processor you know that the GPU in there comes from Qualcomm itself and the other thing that Qualcomm are do all in-house is their modems that's the 4G LTE modems for talking to your cellular network now Qualcomm specialize in building modems and gain for themselves that they put inside of those SOC s kokum dual so cells separate chips that actually other manufacturers can use in the past Apple have used their modems in some models of their iPhones and the thing about 4G LTE is all about the current standards and whether you support the current fastest speed so one of the differentiators that we will see as we look across the range of Qualcomm's processes is that the flagship ones have the latest greatest fastest 4G LTE modems and as you go down the range they put in and you know and less higher-performance modems in the different processors okay so that's a quick look at all the different components and basically what Qualcomm do is they choose which particular CPU they want to pair with which particular model of the GPU and they look at which a kind of image processor they want to put in there and what memory they want to connect it to and whether they support quick charge or not then they wrap it all up and they decide what process they want to use to manufacture it and obviously the older the process the cheaper the process is going to be it is a bleeding-edge process and that's going to be more expensive and then once they decide all those combinations they say this is going to be a processor aimed at this particular market and the way Coulomb divided up their marketing is they have the 800 series which is their flagship devices they have the 600 series which is their mid-range devices then they have their 400 series which is their low-end devices now there are some changes here and there for example we're going to see there's actually now a 700 series which fits between the 600 series and the 800 series and we'll look at that in a moment and they also have some other devices for things like wearables and so on but in general these are the three categories for hundreds of the low-end 600 for the mid-range and 800 for the high-end so this year's flagship processor from Qualcomm is the snapdragon 845 last year it was a Snapdragon 835 and the year before that it was the a Snapdragon 820 and 821 first have a look at these three processes in a bit of detail so going back to the Snapdragon 801 that actually use for CPU cores that were designed in-house by a Qualcomm itself and that was coupled with the Adreno 530 GPU it also had an X 12 LTE modem which allowed a maximum download speed of 600 megabits per second and 150 megabits per second upload and it could support dual 13 megapixel cameras it has support for quick charge 3 and bluetooth 4.1 and this was produced on a 14 nanometer process I just mentioned megabits per second there if you ever get confused about the difference in megabytes per second and make a bit the second I do have a video over on the Gary explains channel which will tell you all about the differences and I'll link to that here in the description below now the successor to the Snapdragon 801 was the 8 Snapdragon 835 and now our core qualms went over to using these arm processors using this special license agreement they have called built on cortex technology and in fact it had four cortex a7 t3 calls and four cortex a53 calls which were marketed under the cryo 280 branding and that was coupled together with the Adreno 540 GPU now the Adreno 540 GPU as far as I understand is really like the 530 however it's been shrunk down to the 10 nanometer process which of course the whole processor was built and there are some other internal tweaking but basically it was still a fifth generation Adreno and that some tweaks are made at the 530 over to the 540 but a big step here in the LTE modem now with a thousand megabits per second possible download speed still sticking with a hundred and fifty megabits per second upload speed and for the camera now jaw 16 megapixel camera support quick charge for and of course blue to five and as I mentioned earlier all built on the 10 nanometer process and this year we saw the core Core 845 which saw the move over from the court is a 73 to the court is a 75 from the court is a 53 to the court is a 55 and they were coupled with the Adreno 630 was a new generation of GPU and the ex 20 LTE modem with even greater download speeds quick charge for again blue 2 5 and 10 nanometer production process now if you do wonder what a court it's a 73 is and a court is a 75 and of course is a 55 and so on I have videos about all of those different processes and designs here on the Android authority Channel so I'll also link to those in the description below now below the flagship scope on have a set of mid-range processors which are called the 600 series and we'll also have a look at the newly announced 700 series at the low end of the 600 series we have the 6-3 to which again is an octa-core configuration using court it's a 73 with cortex a53 and Adreno 506 so that means it is the fifth generation but it's a much lower version of the GPU it only supports LP ddr3 memory and it has a lower modem dx9 which has a download speed of up to just 300 megabits a second so different CPU different GPU different modem different memory support that's a whole different mix and that means it's aimed at the low end of the mid-range however at the top end of the Snapdragon 600 see we've got the Snapdragon 6 7 OH which has got two high performance Cuates 8075 calls and that's the same cause that you find in the Snapdragon 845 and it's got six of the cortex a fifty-five power efficiency calls and again that's the same cause as you find in the Snapdragon 845 we've also now got the six generation GPUs the Adreno six one five and then basically the rest of the staff is very very similar to the snapdragon 616 our course we've moved over to ten nanometer so as you can see at the low end of the mid-range processors things are quite different you've got a less performant CPU you've got a slower GPU you've got slower memory slower modem and as you go up through the mid-range we're starting to touch grab hold of the coattails of the flagship devices now using the same kind of CPU design the same GPU design faster memory and better LTE modems now this year Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 700 series and there's only one processor in that series at the moment and that's the Snapdragon seven one zero 710 now let's have a look at it and compare it to the snapdragon 616 same octa-core setup but with two high performance calls and six energy efficiency calls just like the Snapdragon 600 it's got the Adreno six one six GPU compared to the audrina six one five GPU which means there are some minor differences there but probably is not much of a huge step up there however importantly it's now got the x-15 LTE modem with faster download times it also supports up to dual 20 megapixel cameras and again the same quick charge for Bluetooth 5 and on the 10 nanometer process and then below the mid-range we have these low-end range of processors which are in the 400 series which really are aimed at a budget and price sensitive handsets all the processes in the 400 series are based on a 12 nanometer fabrication process so it's a bit better than the 14 nanometer not quite as good as the 10 millimeter right there in the middle and they all exclusively use an optical design just using the cortex a53 processor no high performance course here no cryo 385 no cryo to 80s these are just cortex a53 calls and basically it's a combination of the different GPU and the different modem to give you that kind of different price point so let's take a look at a relative performance graph to show you the differences across the whole range so of course as you'd expect the snapdragon 845 is the clear leader out there with the best performance that Qualcomm have to offer today and you can see that actually it has a significant performance increase over the Snapdragon 835 then below the 8:35 as you'd expect is the 8 to 1 and then we have the Snapdragon 710 as you can see the Snapdragon 710 is very very close to what the previous flagship device could achieve and then below that you've got the 670 which as I said very similar to the 710 but clearly that difference in GPU has made a slight difference there in the overall performance and then as we go down we can see the 6 6 over 6 3 6 and the 450 and clearly the 450 is much much slower than the Snapdragon 845 so the basic rule of thumb is this the higher the number the better the protesser so the 8 45 is better than the 8 3 5 anything in the 600 range is better than in the 400 range and so on and so forth now before we close let's have a quick talk about the future I'm recording this video in October of 2018 if qualcomm will follow their previous form they're going to be announcing a new flagship processor in december of 2018 and then into the early part of 2019 february and march will start to see phones being announced that use this new flagship processor there is some questions about the naming of this processor will it be the eight five five to follow-on from the eight three five eight four or five now the eight five five there are some other rumors that Qualcomm either change their naming completely and it might be the eighth one five five we really will have to see what Qualcomm announces at the end of the year and it also both mentioned that Qualcomm are very much invested in the idea of Windows on arm laptops always connected laptops so these are laptops that run Windows but not on an AMD or on an Intel processor but actually on a Qualcomm processor and I have a video over on the Gary explains channel talking about the Snapdragon 1000 and the potential for next year for a whole new performance level when it comes to these always connected PCs okay that's about it my name's Gary Sims this is Andrew authority and I really hope you enjoyed this video if you did please do give it a thumbs up also please do subscribe and please do hit that Bell notification icon so that you know every time we drop a new video okay that's about it I'll see you my next one