Snapdragon 810 Overheating: Fact or Fiction?

[anon(5506951)]

This is a heat test on various flagship phones conducted by Techno Buffalo to see whether people should still be concerned with the SD 810, in its earliest and latest iterations, as well as other processors.

Someone in comments raised a good point, however. The question isn't so much whether the 810 overheats, rather, whether or not it throttles. So this is a useless test. At the same time, though, another person responded by saying that the problem is one and the same: heat generated by performance, which is fixed by throttling. The test needed to be conducted while running a graphic intense game. Also, overheating causing issues with holding the phone in hand during "normal" use.

https://youtu.be/kv9_YrbG6mk

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[D13H4RD2L1V3]

The issue with the Snapdragon 810 isn't necessarily the fact that it overheats.

It's because of that heating issue that OEMs have to peg it back.

That's why it didn't get so hot, because if they used the same throttling algorithm used in the S6, N6 and G4, it would be seriously hot.

 

[Blacklac]

Heck, I can visibly see my phone dropping framerate playing Plunder Pirates even on an 805 device, after it heats up (which isn't long).

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[Cakefish]

The same happens on my Nexus 5.

I don't think there's a phone out there that doesn't throttle at least a little under sustained load (i.e. a 3D game).

 

[fatboy97]

LMAO.... you don't even know what the official specs are on either of these two devices, and yet this question... WOW!!!

 

[getbretweir]

LMAO.... you don't even know what the official specs are on either of these two devices, and yet this question... WOW!!!

umm, you're on a "rumored" phone thread, and we're talking about a processor. exactly what do specs have to do with anything?