Qualcomm has announced a new high-end Snapdragon chipset that the company has termed as a follow-up to Snapdragon 865 Plus. It is an upgrade to the Snapdragon 865 Plus with boosted CPU and GPU speeds.
Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 870 5G Mobile Platform is the new chip in town that clocks up to 3.2GHz thanks to the enhanced Qualcomm® Kryo™ 585 CPU’s prime core.
It’s built on the 7nm EUV manufacturing process and was developed to focus on mobile gaming. The chip supports 4K displays at standard 60Hz refresh rates, true 10-bit HDR gaming and updatable GPU drivers. Furthermore, the company promises snappier gaming with Snapdragon Elite Gaming.
Snapdragon 870 features an integrated 5G modem, Snapdragon X55 5G Modem-RF System, that supports both 5G sub-6 GHz and mmWave band.
Phones powered by the new chip will feature WiFi 6, Bluetooth 5.2, Quick Charge 4+, and up to 200 MP single rear camera.
According to Kedar Kondap, VP of product management at Qualcomm, the new chip is “designed to address OEM and mobile industry requirements. New phones powered by the Snapdragon 870 platform will launch as early as this quarter.
The new chip will power select flagship Android smartphones. Companies ready to use the new chip in their phones include Motorola, iQOO(a spinoff brand from Vivo available in the Indian market), OnePlus, OPPO, and Xiaomi.
Mysteriously, Qualcomm Snapdragon 875 clocks at higher speeds than the high-end Snapdragon 888 chip based on the 5nm architecture with newer Cortex-X1 and A78 cores. Of course, clock speeds can’t tell the whole performance story — let’s see how the two compare in benchmarks.
But before then, the bottom line is both processors will power high-end Android smartphones this year.
The Snapdragon 888 has already been seen on Samsung’s new S21(in select markets) and Xiaomi’s Mi 11 Series.
Earlier this month, Qualcomm also announced a new chip with 5G support, Snapdragon 480, that aims to take the fifth generation of wireless networks to the mainstream. First budget Snapdragon 480-powered smartphones will cost between $125(Ksh 13,500) to $250 (<Ksh 30,000), according to the company’s president, and are yet to hit the shelves.
Qualcomm said the first budget 5G phones would launch in this quarter before the end of March.
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