The secret of Snapdragon 810 keeping cool? 50 shades of thermal throttling on the G Flex 2

The secret of Snapdragon 810 keeping cool? 50 shades of thermal throttling on the G Flex 2

Qualcomm went on a PR offensive after the reports, which is extremely rare for the company, touting the Snapdragon 810 virtues with LG, Sony, Motorola and others all lining up behind the chip maker, saying that they will all use the powerful silicon in their upcoming flagships. Reports poured in that the overheating issues are overcome, and mass production is now slated for mid-March, in time to go into all those HTC, LG, Sony and other high-end models tipped with the chipset. There were even reports the other day that Snapdragon 810 runs a tad cooler than Snapdragon 801 in last year's flagships.

The thing is that all those benchmarks and temperature measurements we saw recently are done on Qualcomm's reference Snapdragon 810 platform, which is a thick pieces of a slab, not on a thin retail flagship where heat matters. Well, there is only one of those on the market with Qualcomm's first Snapdragon 810 batch inside - the LG G Flex 2 - and someone decided to run the cross-platform Geekbench on the handset to see what will happen. Here's what happened from the first to the ninth run of the test: Read more here