The Adreno 640 GPU in the Snapdragon 855 is a significant improvement over the older Adreno 530 in the Snapdragon 821. It increases compute throughput while still working within a constrained power and thermal envelope. The GPU has six Shader Processors (SPs) compared to the Adreno 530's four, and Qualcomm reorganized the GPU to avoid replicating other hardware resources in a similar manner. ...