If you want to see what kind of power future Android devices will be packing, check out these latest benchmark scores from Qualcomm's upcoming quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro. Qualcomm invited us to check out their new tablet mobile development platform featuring the upcoming APQ8064 chip, but we were unable to make it. Thankfully Anand Shimpi and Brian Klug of Anandtech were on hand to run the device through its paces.
The Snapdragon S4 Pro (APQ8064) is very similar to the Snapdragon S4 found in the US versions of the HTC One series and Samsung Galaxy S III, but it features four Krait CPU cores instead of two and it includes the newer Adreno 320 GPU.
After testing the new Snapdragon S4 Pro Anand wrote, "Overall Adreno 320 looks to be a good step forward in performance, although still a bit slower than the latest and greatest from Imagination Technologies found in the new iPad. Compared to what everyone else is shipping in Android based tablets/smartphones however, Adreno 320 is easily the new king of the hill."
Considering these are early benchmarks on development hardware, the results are looking pretty good for Qualcomm. Graphics performance appears to have doubled from the Adreno 225 found in the current Snapdragon S4, and in GLBenchmark it was found to be "72% faster than NVIDIA's fastest Tegra 3."
Qualcomm and Bsquare also announced that the new
