Qualcomm doesn`t want you to take its Snapdragon 835 benchmarks too seriously
(Android Central)

Qualcomm wants — needs — the Snapdragon 835 to be about more than just CPU speed. Qualcomm is in a bit of a bind. The company is readying its first Snapdragon 835 chips for the world`s best phones, and though Samsung — the world`s biggest Android manufacturer — will be co-opting much of the releases`s spotlight with the Galaxy S8, Qualcomm wants to make it clear that there are still many advantages, both for other companies and consumers, in going with its products. It pointed out that no other company fulfils the promise of a platform architecture like Qualcomm. So it`s trying to play two hands at the same time. Last week, it offers journalists a glimpse at what makes the Snapdragon 835 tick, including the opportunity to benchmark a MDP unit (Mobile Device Platform) that runs the latest hardware and a stock version of Android Nougat. Judging from the thorough set of benchmarks by Anandtech, the Snapdragon 835 is an evolutionary upgrade to the 820/821 i...