Qualcomm has allowed initial test works on the Snapdragon 845, and the benchmark results showed that 2018 Android flagships to use the SoC are in for significant upgrades.

Both the CPU and GPU are seeing substantial overhauls, not to mention smaller upgrades across the board for everything from the modem to the audio codec," the report observed .

In terms of real-world performance, the Snapdragon 845 is nothing short of impressive as the testing by AnandTech indicated that the chip as driver for a reference phone can easily outpace the leading Android flagships that were released in 2017.

One area where the chip performed remarkably well involved web workloads, which the report said reached a level that can, in fact, eclipse the Snapdragon 845's overall CPU scores, and credit goes to the integrated X20 LTE modem.

It was clear that prior to providing a glimpse of the processor, Qualcomm made sure that its upcoming product is fully optimized for actual applications.

However, it's quite certain that due to the optimization tweaks applied on the Snapdragon 845 CPU and GPU aspects, most, if not all, 2018 flagship phones that will run on the chip will boast of exceptional battery life.

That means power performance on longer operating hours, provided device manufacturers can make the Snapdragon 845 work to their advantage.