ajst222
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Here's the deal with the snapdragon 800. This was the FLAGSHIP chipset that came out late last year. Its very fast, and very powerful. Its successor is the Snapdragon 805, which is coming out late THIS year. NOTHING currently uses it (since its not out yet) and due to when its coming out the LG G3 is most likely going to use it. If Nokia brings out a Lumia 1020 successor, this is the most likely chipset to use as well (since that was a late year device)
The Snapdragon 801 used in the Galaxy S5, Sony Xperia Z2 and HTC One M8 is a midcycle refreshed speed bump of the 800 which makes absolutely no difference in anything other than benchmark scores. The 801 is just the 800 capable of reaching higher clock speeds. The CPU (Both uses the same Krait 400 cores) is clocked anywhere between 2.26 and 2.5ghz (SD800 maxes at 2.26). The GPU (both uses the same Adreno 330 GPU) is clocked higher in the 801 (450 vs 578 I think) and theres a few more tweaks here and there with the memory interface I think. Again nothing that's going to be that noticeable outside of the extremely demanding and benchmark tests.
The 805 has an improved CPU (Krait 450), and an improved GPU (Adreno 420). These are different components than what's found in the 800/801. Those changes would be more significant.
But Qualcomm also introduced the 64bit 808 and 810 chipsets which is due out next year. This puts the chipsets at 6 month cycles which means you have to jump on something now or you'll be forever waiting.
To answer the question, yes the 800 is more than enough, especially for a windows phone. Yes an 801 would be better (mostly from a spec sheet perspective) but its not this super major outdated old hat deficit as everyone freaking out about it seems to think it is. If one is outdated, then the other is also outdated, because they're like 95% exactly the same.
If you want to put this into perspective of a car's engine (I like using car analogies, they seem to parallel with hardware quite well).
It would probably be something like this:
Snapdragon 200 is a 140hp 2.0L 4cyl engine.
Snapdragon 400 is a 200hp 2.0L 4cyl turbo engine.
Snapdragon 600 is a 325hp 3.5L V6engine.
Snapdragon 800 is a 400hp 5.7L V8 engine.
Snapdragon 801 is the same 5.7L V8 as the 800 but makes 450hp.
Snapdragon 805 is a 550hp 6.0L V8 engine.
Snapdragon 808 is a 600hp turbocharged 5.0L V8 engine
Snapdragon 810 is a 650hp turbocharged 5.0L V8 engine.
You're forgetting torque here! Cmon haha