Qualcomm has added a new processor to their Snapdragon line up, designated, APQ 8x60 family. The first one is APQ 8060. As with all new introductions at this time, this processor too has increased general performance as well as graphics performance so that a consumers overall experience is enhanced including the multimedia experience. Towards that purpose what this system on chip offers is a pair of its own Scorpion processor cores operating at 1.5 GHz and Adreno 220 graphics processor. The Scorpions use the ARM v7 instruction set. Along with the graphics processor it aims at providing viewing of stereoscopic 3D (S3D) videos or still images, 1080P HD video capture and playback, "console-quality" gaming and Flash-equipped web browsing for not only smartphone handsets but large screen tablets too.
The two cores can run asynchronously, not only at different frequencies but at different voltages too. It supports all the ARM instructions. That includes the NEON group of instructions assisting multimedia applications. According to the manufacturer the processor is faster than OMAP4 from Texas Instruments. But, then OMAP 5 is already on the way. We'll have to see how the Snapdragon compares with that. According to one review the numbers for the CPU are like Linpack Scores at around 48 - 49 mflops . While the GPU, Adreno 220 is capable of rendering 88 million triangles/sec. Some benchmark scores are 39 FPS in GLBenchmark Egypt, 93.6fps in GL Benchmark Pro, 80 fps on quake 3. That's a five times improvement on its predecessor the Adreno 205.
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