AMD has announced Threadripper 2 coming Q3 with up to 32 cores on a 12nm process.

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Anandtech had a sneak peak of that unnamed 28 core processor:

The A11 can't maintain peak performance for more than one benchmark on the iPhone X or the iPhone 8 Plus. In the iPhone 8, it can't even reach peak performance before having to throttle. So I wouldn't say "only because of throttling", that's a very important factor.

The Galaxy S9 (Snapdragon) is a mess and will throttle after a couple runs. Even after throttling it will still outperform the A11, although it's clearly an example of bad implementation.

The Snapdragon 845 can outperform the A10X in the 10.5 iPad Pro and come close to the A10X in the much larger 12.9 inch iPad Pro.

3DMark Slingshot Extreme Unlimited

This ASUS ROG Phone will probably exceed the iPad Pro 12.9 as it's running a speed binned Snapdragon 845 with higher clocks and better cooling.

I should also note that these benchmarks are using OpenGL ES 3.1 on Android and Metal on iOS.

With Vulkan drivers and an updated benchmark suite, the performance of the Snapdragon would be even higher. It looks like GFXBench 5.0 be the first to test that. Currently iOS can't run GFXBench 4.0 (it uses OpenGL ES 3.1 + Android extension pack, so it's still stuck on 3.1).

The Snapdragon 845's Adreno 630 GPU is more powerful than the downclocked Maxwell GPU on the Tegra X1. It's even more powerful than the regular clocked Tegra X1 in the Shield TV.

I'm skeptical on its sustained graphics performance. A Snapdragon 835 was able to beat the A11 in sustained graphics performance, and it came out in early 2017. A well binned and properly implemented Snapdragon 845, like in this ROG Phone, is very far ahead of the A11.

7nm will be a help, but Apple also needs to improve their archetecture considerably. Interestingly enough, if they would have stuck with Imagination Technologies design for the A11, it would have actually been even more powerful than their own design.

Hands-on video:

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the 8086, Intel is launching the Core i7-8086K (6 cores / 12 threads) with a 5.0 GHz turbo clock (4.0 GHz base).

No word on pricing just yet.

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Intel also announced an unnamed 28 core / 56 thread processor coming in Q4.

Cinebench R15 Multi 64-bit score of 7334 with all cores running at 5.0 GHz:

At Computex 2018, ASUS has announced their gaming smartphone, the ROG Phone:

Specs:

• 6 inch / 2160x1080 / AMOLED / 90 Hz refresh / 1 ms response / 108.6% DCI-P3 / HDR support
• Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 @2.96 GHz (speed binned / overclocked)
• 8 GB LPDDR4X
• 128 GB or 512 GB UFS 2.1
• Rear camera - 12 MP+ 8 MP (wide angle)
• Front camera - 8 MP
• 802.11ad / Wi-Fi Direct / WiGiG wireless display support / Bluetooth 5.0 / NFC
• GPS / aGPS / Glonass / BeiDou
• Dual front facing stereo speakers
• USB-C (bottom) / 3.5 mm (bottom) / custom USB-C (side)
• Rear fingerprint sensor / 2x Air Triggers (ultrasonic shoulder triggers)
• 4000 mAh battery

ASUS has also made a number of accessories for the ROG Phone:

• Gamevice controller / WiGiG Dock
• Desktop dock
• TwinView controller
• Active cooling clip

No word on pricing yet, but it's coming in Q3 of this year.

They're only using a 60hz display. So while the Razer phone has it beat in that regard, the Xiaomi phone uses a more powerful SoC.

Xiaomi has launched their new Black Shark gaming phone.

Specifications:

• 5.99" 2160x1080 display (550 nit / 97% DCI-P3)
• Qualcomm Snapdragon 845
• Multi layered cooling to prevent throttling
• 6 GB or 8 GB LPDDR4 RAM
• 64 GB or 128 GB UFS 2.1 storage
• 12 MP + 20 MP dual rear cameras f/1.7 & dual-tone LED flash
• 20 MP front camera f/2.2
• 4000 mAh battery
• Stereo speakers
• Dual SIM
• USB-C
• Front fingerprint sensor
• Quick Charge 3.0

Pricing:

• 6 GB RAM / 64 GB storage ~$475 (2999 yuan)
• 8 GB RAM / 128 GB storage ~$555 (3499 yuan)