The recently announced Snapdragon 835 processor would feature a super fast Snapdragon X16 LTE modem, as per leaked documents that hit the Internet today. The SD X16 LTE modem would enable the SD835 to download data at 1Gbpsm while upload remains at 150Mbps. This modem would be much much faster than the latest 4G LTE modems available in other Snapdragon chipsets.
We’ve seen that the SD835 is much better in terms of performance and efficiency than the previous versions. Several upcoming smartphones, including the Galaxy S8, Xiaomi Mi6, Oppo Find 9, etc, would be using this chipset. The inclusion of SD X16 LTE modem will make this chipset a manufacturer favorite.
Other than that, the Snapdragon 835 chipset would be powered by Kyro 280 CPU and Adreno 540 GPU. It’s a 64-bit ARMv8 architecture processor, is something also we get to learn from this leak.
