Technical details of Qualcomm Snapdragon 855: Without 5G included, 45% higher performance and better artificial intelligence

After making official the arrival of the Snapdragon 855, today during the second day of conferences at the Snapdragon Summit 2018, Qualcomm offered the technical specifications of its new processor, which lets us see the progress with respect to the previous generation and what we can expect from the high range for this 2019.

After having shown some features of the Snapdragon 855, today it was time to dive into the processor’s guts to see what is inside, where the most remarkable thing is that it does not support 5G networks natively, but it will be a feature that will be sold separately.

No, the Snapdragon 855 does not come with 5G included

The new Snapdragon 855 includes the Qualcomm X24 modem, which will support speeds up to 2Gbps on Cat LTE. 20. That is, the Snapdragon 855 alone will not support 5G networks , since you will need the X50 modem to enable this function .

Once the Snapdragon 855 is added to the X50 modem, it will allow it to support faster mmWave networks and higher-order sub-6GHz 5G , that is, full compatibility with the new generation 5G networks, which will begin its deployment during 2019 in some regions…