Qualcomm is relaunching its fastest smartphone processor from the year 2020: The Snapdragon 870 represents a faster version of the Snapdragon 660 Plus, which in turn is an accelerated new edition of the Snapdragon 865 was. The newcomer is a cheaper alternative to the actual 2021 he top model Snapdragon 888.

The internal structure of the Snapdragon 870 remains with eight CPU cores and Adreno – 650 – graphics unit identical. The so-called Prime-Core, a cryo 585 or Cortex-A 77, Qualcomm accelerates from 3.1 to 3.2 GHz. The three other cryo – 585 – cores and four Cortex-A 55 continue to clock at 2.4 and 1.8 GHz. In addition, the additional chip Snapdragon X 10 for 5G mobile communications in the medium bands (sub 6 GHz) and mmWave over short distances

7 nm technology from TSMC Qualcomm provides a 10 – Percent increase in performance of the CPU and GPU in prospect, which speaks for better boost clock frequencies in practice. This would be possible through chip selection or internal improvements in the manufacturing process – officially TSMC’s 7-nanometer N7P process is used, as with the earlier Plus model, but it has also been optimized over the year.

The Snapdragon 888 uses 5 nm technology and newer architectures, including Cortex-A 78 and -X1 cores and an Adreno – 660 -GPU. The system-on-chip (SoC) comes off the assembly line at Samsung. With the relaunched Snapdragon 870 Qualcomm has made itself a little bit independent from Samsung, which speaks for higher quantities.

Im Over the next few months, the first smartphones with the Snapdragon 870 are expected to hit the market, including devices from Moto, iQOO, OnePlus, Oppo and Xiaomi. These are upper-class models; the flagships with Snapdragon appear in parallel 888.

(mma)