Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 855 Plus chip will give mobile gamers a boost

Qualcomm's got a new flagship chip for phones, and it's not your typical Snapdragon release. 

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Plus is a (somewhat surprising) mid-year upgrade to the company's flagship chip, the Snapdragon 855. The performance improvements aren't huge, and where they do exist, they'll mostly be of interest to mobile gamers. 

The new chip consists of a slightly overclocked Kryo 485 CPU Prime core, which runs at 2.96GHz — a 4 percent increase over the same chip's 2.84GHz clock speed in the Snapdragon 855. 

The new Snapdragon 855 Plus chip also has an overclocked Adreno 640 GPU, which, according to Qualcomm, runs 15 percent faster than the one in the Snapdragon 855.  Read more...