I tried the high-end smartphone "Xiaomi Mi 6" with Snapdragon 835 + memory 6 GB in Taiwan

Mi 6 is Xiaomi's flagship model announced on April 19th (local time) in China. In addition to adopting Qualcomm's latest SoC, Snapdragon 835, the memory has a considerable margin of 6GB, achieving top-class performance on Android machines.

At the moment, smartphones equipped with Snapdragon 835 are limited to some high-end models such as Samsung's "Galaxy S8/S8+", Sony's "Xperia XZ Premium", Sharp's "AQUOS R", and HTC's "U11". It is In the sales network in Japan, the fastest likely to be available was the Galaxy S8 / S8 + (early June) for NTT Docomo, but Mi 6 has already been on sale in China for about a month. Even from a global perspective, the time of introduction is early.

The biggest feature of this unit is the installation of Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon 835. It is the world's first commercial chip manufactured by Samsung's 10nm process, and the "Kyro 280" is a semi-custom CPU with a performance improvement of about 20% from the conventional Kryo, and the performance of the GPU is 25% from the conventional Adreno 530. It integrates the improved Adreno 540. Expectations are high as a successor to the already highly rated Snapdragon 820. The operating clock is 2.45GHz for the CPU and 710MHz for the GPU.

Qualcomm has not disclosed the details of the Kyro 280, but it is a semi-custom based on ARM's Cortex-A72/73, not the Kryo customized from the architecture like the one installed in the Snapdragon 820. It appears to be.

Also, the Snapdragon 820 is a combination of 2 big cores and 2 LITTLE cores, while the Snapdragon 835 is a combination of 4 big cores and 4 LITTLE cores. The former can be regarded as a configuration similar to Apple's A10 Fusion, while the latter is similar to a CPU that uses the major Cortex-A series.

The memory is equipped with 6GB of LPDDR4x driven by 1,866MHz as standard. In terms of capacity, it is 2GB more than the Galaxy S8/S8+, Xperia XZ Premium, and AQUOS R sold by NTT Docomo. You will be able to multitask with ease. There are two types of storage, 64GB and 128GB, both of which use UFS, which is faster than eMMC. Since this unit cannot expand the capacity with microSD, there may not be a small capacity model such as 16GB / 32GB.