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Last year the Asus ROG Phone differentiated itself from the other gaming phones on the market with its binned Snapdragon 845 chipset with higher 2.96GHz clocks than the standard 2.8GHz.
This year things are different, Qualcomm has announced a specific Snapdragon 855+ chipset and multiple manufactures are on board to use it.
The Plus model is based on the same hardware as the Snapdragon 855 chipset. This means one “prime” core running at 2.96GHz (up from 2.84GHz), three other big cores (the A76-based Kryo 485 Gold) at 2.42GHz and then the four small cores.
The boost to the single high-performance core represents a 4.2% increase while the GPU has been improved by a more impressive 15%.
It is no surprise that the Asus ROG Phone 2 will be the first phone to feature the chipset, but now the Nubia Red Magic 3 has been confirmed there will be a special edition that uses the new high-performance SoC.
Furthermore, RealMe have indicated that they will also be teaming up with Qualcomm to launch a phone with the Snapdragon 855+, but at the moment there is no information on that phone.
New leaks show some of the performance that has been achieved with the ROG Phone 2. Benchmarked as the “asus ASUS_I001DC”, the ROG Phone 2 runs Android 9 Pie. It also has 12GB of RAM, though we expect there will be another RAM variant.
For the single-core test, the device scored 3616 points and scored 11,103 points in the multi-core test. This is just a bit higher than the average score of Snapdragon 855-powered phones.
This isn’t a large improvement, but Geekbench is CPU focussed, and the single-core has only been boosted by about 4%, and the Geekbench indicates around a 3% improvement. As expected there is less of a difference between the typical SD855 and SD855+ multi-core score.
The main differences will come from the GPU tests, and the moment there are no leaked benchmarks for this, so we will just have to wait and see.
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