On Thursday, Qualcomm reported its most current midrange mobile processor—the Snapdragon 780G, a 5nm part that succeeds a year ago’s 765. The Snapdragon 700 series is a midrange line that offers comparable features to the flagship Snapdragon 800 series however at fairly lower performance for altogether lower cost.
On the surface, it’s not difficult to see a year ago’s Snapdragon 768G and the current year’s 780G and see a comparative product: an octa-core processor with Adreno GPU. However, albeit the core count stayed consistent, the sorts of cores didn’t.
Prior Snapdragon 700 arrangement SoCs utilized one “fastest” Cortex A-76 core, another “almost as fast” Cortex A-76, and six “slow-and-low” Cortex A-55 cores that can complete background tasks at least battery drain. The new 780G movements things around, with three fast secondary cores and just four slow cores.
This strikes us as a quite huge move, and it features how much wiggle room there is in a word like “octa-core” in modern huge/little CPUs, where the various cores have totally different capacities and performance levels.
The 780G additionally gets an upgraded GPU—Qualcomm says its Adreno 642 gets a 50 percent performance support over the Adreno 620 in the 768G. Anandtech’s back-of-the-napkin math puts that generally comparable to the Adreno 640 in late 2018’s Snapdragon 855 flagship.
Snapdragon 780G offers a better than ever Hexagon 770 AI processor, with an extra lower-powered AI accelerator that can deal with tasks like sifting through wind and background noise during calls without eating excessively far into battery reserves.
There’s additionally support for 5G and Wi-Fi 6E modems and an image signal processor that can process three 25 MP pictures at the same time. That considers a phone with a triple lens arrangement to catch pictures from wide, ultra-wide, and fax cameras from a single click.
Qualcomm says the first Snapdragon 780G-equipped gadgets should start transporting in Q2 2021.