The Snapdragon 810 chipset has been plagued by overheating issues as we all know. While LG denied these reports after using the chip on the G Flex 2 handset, HTC’s One M9 was seen to be getting overheating warnings while on demonstration during the MWC event, so this is a known issue.
A new report suggests that the Korean manufacturer has finally decided to ditch the controversial silicon in favor of the Snapdragon 808 SoC. Benchmark results have shown the LG G4 to be running the Snapdragon 808, so this is not the first time we’re coming across such a report.
LG has already sent out invites for its April 28 unveiling of the LG G4, so it makes sense that the company has taken this decision now. It was said that Qualcomm will have a fixed version of the Snapdragon 810 SoC by mid-Q2 2015, which is close to May. Clearly, this wouldn’t go well with LG’s plans as it plans to unveil the G4 by late April and possibly have the device in shelves by May.
The Snapdragon 808 uses a hexa-core (6) CPU architecture and is powered by the Adreno 418 GPU. It uses a mixture of ARM Cortex-A57 and Cortex-A53 cores, so the performance will not be hindered compared to the Snapdragon 810.
Source: Korea Times
Via: G For Games
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