Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 810 Mobile Processor Problems

For most people, they will not care about what processor is in their smartphone, how much ram it has or even what type of graphics card it is. This is because the majority of people just want a phone that is consistently reliable and fast – if a smartphone has these features, then how can you complain about the internals of it? A great example is Apple with the iPhone – the A processor series from Apple generally does not have as much processing power in terms of Ghz as compared to the Android equivalents. However due to iOS and how Apple uses their processors it is generally on par or faster than processors that, on paper, should appear to be faster. 

For 2015, it appears that Qualcomm (the manufacturer for the majority of Android smartphone processors) has released a new set of chips with the flagship processor looking to be the 810 chip with a slower 808 processor as a slightly cheaper alternative… or is it? Well, on paper, the 810 processor beats the 808 chip with specs of an octacore 2.5Ghz processor as compared to the 808’s quad core 2Ghz processor: more cores and more computations per second.

If you keep up to date with technology news, you will know that there has been quite a few problems with the new Snapdragon 810 processor chip with the main and most crucial problem being it’s performance. What the 810 processor has become notoriously known for is the fact that is overheats very easily. When the chip overheats, it has to limit the Ghz it uses to help cool the chip down, resulting in the chip rarely using it’s full performance capacity as compared to the 808 chip which rarely overheats.

What does this mean for consumers?

If you are looking to buy a new Android phone in 2015, it is probably better to go with the 808 chip as compared to the 810 chip. Now, I can understand this may affect what phone you end up buying. But, when I say the 810 slows down, it really does slow down quite a lot and causes the phone to get quite hot too.

The Snapdragon 808 chip is nothing to complain about. It is consistently fast and with Android software becoming more simplistic, the processor can handle of the computations that users throw at it.

If you are still not convinced that the 808 processor is the best choice when compared to the 810, I will leave you on one note. LG released the G Flex 2 with the 810 processor and this phone was known as the first smartphone to be using the 810 chip. 4-5 months later, LG’s flagship phone, the LG G4, then decided to abandon the 810 chip and use the 808 chip: even though it was released well after the G Flex 2…