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Qualcomm, better known for its ‘Snapdragon’ processors you find in the majority of smartphones these days, has launched the Snapdragon 675 chipset. The new processor is aimed for upper/mid-range smartphones and focuses on improving the camera, gaming and AI capabilities of the device.
The processor is arguably the industry-first to be manufactured using 11nm processor. According to, Qualcomm’s Vice President of product management, Kedar Kondap, the Snapdragon 675 can be termed as the successor to the Qualcomm Snapdragon 670 processor that was launched in August this year.
Designed for handsets in the $300 to $500 range, the chipset features an Adreno 612 GPU and fourth generation Kryo CPU with two performance cores clocked at 2GHz and six efficiency cores at 1.7GHz. The chip promises 30% faster game launches and 20% faster music launches. Qualcomm also optimized the system-on-a-chip to deliver a high frame rate — an all-important factor for a gaming phone. The Razer Phone 2, for instance, has a 120Hz refresh rate (double than what you regularly see in a smartphone). Qualcomm confirmed that the 675 can support 120Hz — impressive for a mid-range GPU — but it’ll come down to whether manufacturers see fit to provide that sort of tech in a mid-range smartphone. In a further effort to bring high-end gaming to the mid-range, the chip maker is working with games and game engines like Unity and Unreal to optimize for 600-series chipsets.
With the new processor, Qualcomm claims there is 90% fewer stuttering while operating graphic-intensive games such as PUBG, Best NBA, Honor of Kings, Knives Out and more. The processor uses tools including Snapdragon Profiler, Het Compute SDK and Power SDK to run games based on Unreal Engine 4, Unity, Messiah and NeoX. With Aqstic Audio users will also get surround sound audio while gaming. Also claimed is that the games launch 30% faster, 35% for web browsing, 20% for music apps and 15% for social media apps.
Better camera processing is another selling point for the 675. The chip uses a Spectra 200 series image signal processor to support triple cameras and features including up to 5x optical zoom, real-time bokeh, super wide angle shots, and 3D face unlock. Additionally, the chipset stocks Qualcomm Quick Charge 4+ and the X12 modem, which offers download speeds of up to 600Mbps
You can expect to see the first smartphones using the 675 processor to arrive in the first quarter of 2019.
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