Appalling!
I’m somewhat appalled to see the press “hyping” a processor, which has been clearly optimized for benchmarks.
The Snapdragon 855 features eight cores (standard), with only one of them delivering full performance:
1x 2.84GHz (Cortex A76)
3x 2.42GHz (Cortex A76)
4x 1.8GHz (Cortex-A55)
This is a 1+3+4 design, as opposed to the traditional 4+4.
There’s 512kb L2 cache on the big core, while there’s “only” 256kb on each of the three middle cores, and 128kb for each of the four small cores.
On Android, most applications run multiple threads. In other words: This is going to suck and every other chip manufacturer could easily pull the same stunt (which I hope, they won’t).
Boo!