New Mobile Chipset Annihilates Current Crop of Smartphones

The new dual-core Snapdragon chip by Qualcomm will make your smartphone jealous. Judging by benchmarks conducted by AnandTech, the new MSM 8x60 thoroughly blows away the competition, scoring nearly double the Google-flagship Nexus S in GLBenchmark, a standardized method of testing graphics performance. This makes due on both the company's claim to put at the same time a dual-core Snapdragon and to push the system's clock speed to 1.5 Ghz The blog was given a developer phone containing the new chipset, clocked to full speed at 1.5 Ghz. The system as well runs at a more modest 1.2 Ghz, a variant that seems more likely to appear in handsets in the nearly future given battery-life constraints.

One of the most important factors in the chip's performance is a new graphics core, an updated version of the Adreno core that accompanies the HTC Inspire 4G and MyTouch 4G. This new Adreno, the 220, is approximately two to three times faster than the previous Adreno 205. Perfect for the boost in performance you need for the smoothest Quake fragging around. No word on when this chipset will appear in actual phones, however the system seems ready to dominate whenever handset makers decide they're good to go.