Many have been keenly looking to the arrival of Qualcomm’s next flagship Snapdragon SoC after the trouble with this generation’s Snapdragon 810. This week, Qualcomm has finally begun officially talking about its upcoming Snapdragon 820. However, the company has just started by talking about its latest Adreno 530 GPU and Spectra ISP that will appear in the chip. We are going to have to wait for details on its new custom ARMv8 CPU design and other components.
As the name implies, the Adreno 530 comes from a new series of GPUs and is the highest entry in the range. Qualcomm also has an Adreno 510 in the works, which will ship with its Snapdragon 618 and 620 SoCs.
On the API side, the Adreno 530 remains compatible with OpenGL ES 3.1 and the Android Extension Pack which was introduced with Lollipop, as you would expect. The GPU is also said to support OpenGL ES 3.2 on certain platforms, meaning that the upcoming Vulkan API, and all of its benefits, will be supported in the future as well.
The chip is also OpenGL 2.0 and Renderscript compatible, allowing for improved GPGPU heterogeneous processing solutions. Qualcomm is boasting big boosts to certain compute applications, such as video processing.
As part of the GPU package, the Snapdragon 820 will also now support external 4K displays with a 60fps output, thanks to compliance with the HDMI 2.0 standard. Wireless display streaming is also now possible at 4K, albeit with a reduced 30fps frame rate.
Qualcomm has also been sharing details about its new Spectra image signal processor. The ISP boasts support for higher resolution multi-camera setups and will now work with up to three camera sensors simultaneously. The ISP supports resolutions up to 25 megapixels and 30fps video capture at full resolution.
SOURCE: Android Authorithy
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