Then there’s the older MSM8974 Snapdragon 800 chip to consider, which powers many current top of the line handsets, including the LG G2, Nexus 5, and Sony’s Xperia Z1.

Qualcomm confirmed the announcement date for the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset, which is promised to boast a significant jump in performance and power efficiency compared to its predecessor.

Complete with asynchronous quad-core Krait 400 CPUs, this latest MDP based on Qualcomm Technologies' Snapdragon 800 processor will also include an Adreno™ 330 GPU, Hexagon™ v5 QDSP6 and other ...