Top 5 improvements Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 SoC offers

Benchmark tests show  Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 offers a significant bump in performance, battery life and connectivity from its predecessor. Qualcomm announced a new chip back in December but waited until CES 2019 before allowing benchmark tests on the new chip. The 855 is SoC or System on a Chip; meaning it contains a CPU, GPU and much more. Here’s is everything we know about the latest flagship-grade Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 SoC :

CPU
The CPU on the 855 is a Kryo 485 as compared to the Kryo 385 on the Snapdragon 845. Unlike its predecessor, the Kryo 485 switches out when one of its four Performance Cores for a faster Prime Core, which makes the 855 up to 45% faster than the previous generation.

GPU
While Adreno 640 GPU offers a 20% improvement in graphics performance. Qualcomm has also announced that the new GPU features the Snapdragon Elite Gaming Experience, which is more a less a combination of new features the new chip supports like Cinematic HDR Colour Grading for games, reduce dropped frames for games, ensuring a smoother gaming experience.

Camera
The 855 is equipped with an upgraded computer vision signal processor, which is expected to boost the speed of computational tasks performed by the phone's camera. The advancement will allow you to take 4K HDR video recording at 60 FPS and enable hardware-based depth mapping in a video.