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 Qualcom...