Qualcomm unveils 5G-ready Snapdragon 690 SoC for midrange phones: Know more
After adding 5G network
support to Snapdragon 8-series and 7-series processors, Qualcomm on
Wednesday brought the 5G network
support to its Snapdragon 6-series processors with the launch of Qualcomm Snapdragon
690 system-on-chip. Aimed at midrange smartphones between
$300-$500 segment, the new SoC also brings Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.1 with aptX
adaptive codec support, up to 120Hz screen refresh rate support, and much more.
Here is what the Qualcomm Snapdragon
690 brings on table:
CPU and GPU
The
Snapdragon 690 is manufactured on Samsung’s 8nm LPP process. It has an
octa-core CPU based on ARM’s bigLITTLE architecture. It has two big ARM
Cortex-A77 cores and six little Cortex-A55 cores, operating at a peak frequency
of up to 2GHz. The CPU is paired with Adreno 619L graphic processing unit
(GPU), which is up to 60 per cent faster than the GPU in its predecessor, the
Snapdragon 675 – according to Qualcomm. The Snapdragon 690 supports a maximum
of 8GB RAM -- 2 x 16-bit LPDDR4X memory at up to 1866MHz.
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