14 DAY TRIAL // The LG G Flex 2 was the first smartphone to take advantage of a Snapdragon 810 processor, and now the company’s latest flagship, the G4, is the first to take advantage of the Snapdragon 808.
According to a Qualcomm spokesperson, LG didn't choose to go with the Snapdragon 808 for fear of the overheating issues that have been plaguing the Snapdragon 810 ever since its inception. It makes sense, since LG already utilizes the dreaded platform in one of its products.
On top of that, word on the street has is that LG is working on a second flagship phone, which should be placed above the G4, so the company might be saving up the Snapdragon 810 for that particular model.
Qualcomm also explained that, apparently, the Snapdragon 808 is more capable of balancing between power and performance, thus bestowing a longer life cycle upon the G4.
The Snapdragon 808 is subjected to benchmarks
In case you were wondering how the Snapdragon 808 stacks against la crème de la crème, such as the Samsung Exynos 7420 that lives inside the Galaxy S6, we have an answer for you.
But first, we should remind you that the Snapdragon 808 is a hexa-core 64-bit processor with two Cortex-A57 and four Cortex-A53 cores, combined with Adreno 418 GPU and 3GB of RAM.
When LG G4 was launched, the company said that during daily usage, the Snapdragon 808 would prove to be on par with the most powerful chip to date, the Exynos 7420.
However, as GSM Arena demonstrates, synthetic benchmarks tell a slightly different story. As you can see from the scores attached below, the G4 might be more powerful than the G3, but it still pales compared to the Exynos 7420.
For example, in GeekBench 3, the Samsung Galaxy S6 scored 5,215 points while the LG G4 only managed to grab 2,532. The LG G3 didn't perform a lot worse, scoring 2,370 points.
So there’s a pretty huge gap between what the Exynos 7420 can achieve and what the Snapdragon 808 can do.
As for the Snapdragon 810, the chip is represented in the benchmark results by the HTC One M9, which scored 3,761 points. Still a lot better than the Snapdragon 808.
