Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 845 chipset powers pretty much every flagship Android device that isn’t made by Huawei or Samsung this year, but it is pretty old at this point, launching on the Galaxy S9 this spring.
Its successor, tentatively called Snapdragon 855, may have just been benchmarked inside a development board. The Geekbench listing doesn’t give us the chipset’s name, only its codename – “msmnile”.
It was paired with 6GB of RAM on the test device, which ran Android 9 Pie. Its multi-core result of 10,469 matches what Apple’s A11 Bionic SoC usually manages to accomplish. That’s what…