best Performance Snapdragon 636

Qualcomm officially announced the latest mobile platform titled Snapdragon 636. This chipset will be installed in the line of middle-class smartphone to the upcoming 2018 output. Snapdragon 636 is manufactured with a Finnnet 14nm fabrication process based on Kyro 260 architecture. Qualcomm claims its performance or speed increases 40 percent rather than Snapdragon 630. Snapdragon 636 has software compatible with Snapdrargon 630 and 660. That way, smartphone vendors more easily embed Snapdragon 636 on the series of smartphones currently on the market.

specification Snapdragon 636 in detail, compared to its predecessor, Snapdragon 625.

..	Snapdragon 636	Snapdragon 625
Fab.	14 nm LPP	14 nm LPP
Number of Core	8	8
big.LITTLE	Yes	No
Core Cluster #1	4x Kryo 260 1.8 GHz	8x Cortex A53 ~2.0 GHz
Core Cluster #2	4x Kryo 260 1.8 GHz	N/A
GPU	Adreno 509	Adreno 506
Max. Resolution	FHD+	FHD+
Memory Support	LPDDR4 – 1333 MHz	LPDDR3 – 933 MHz
Memory Channel	Dual	Single
DSP	Hexagon 680	Hexagon 56
Camera Support	Up to 24 MP; Dual ISP	Up to 24 MP; Dual ISP
Video Capture	Up to 4K @ 30 fps	Up to 4K @ 30 fps
Video Codec (Encode)	H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9	H.264, H.265
Video Codec (Decode)	H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9	H.264, H.265
LTE Category	Down: Cat. 12. Up: Cat. 13	Down: Cat. 7. Up: Cat. 13
LTE Data Rate	Down: up to 600 Mbps Up: up to 150 Mbps	Down: up to 300 Mbps Up: up to 150 Mbps
VoLTE	YES	YES
WiFi	802.11 AC	802.11 AC
Bluetooth	Bluetooth 5.0	Bluetooth 4.1
USB Support	USB 3.0	USB 3.0
Fast Charging	Quick Charge 4.0	Quick Charge 3.0

Performance Snapdragon 636

The increase in processor performance is about 55% and GPU about 45% towards Snapdragon 625 is a very high increase. Of course, performance in real applications, could be higher. For us, bringing all the high end features to the mid-price level is something that should be thumbs up.

Without showing real performance, it seems that this article is becoming bland. Therefore, in closing, we present a performance comparison score of Snapdragon 636 with its predecessor and several other SoCs. We show Snapdragon 625 and 636 in red to clarify the difference between the two.

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Snapdragon 636 has a high performance for its class. Meanwhile, the speed of the processor is below 2GHz should be able to keep the power consumption remains good. In our opinion, Snapdragon 636 will be a very successful successor to Snapdragon 625. Continue the success of its predecessor with high performance that is sufficient even for the mobile gamers.