Asus ROG Phone II to be the first phone to ship with the Snapdragon 855 Plus

Asus has announced that its upcoming ROG Phone II will be the first smartphone running Qualcomm's newly announced Snapdragon 855 Plus chipset. The new 855 Plus chipset is largely identical to the company's previous flagship, the Snapdragon 855, but features higher clocks, with the CPU now being running at 2.96GHz instead of 2.84GHz. This results in about 4.2% improvement in CPU performance. More relevant to the ROG Phone II, the Adreno 640 GPU in the Snapdragon 855 Plus has also been clocked higher and now promises an improvement of 15% compared to the standard Snapdragon...