Stefan Mileschin

Strong AI play and new Kryo / Adreno 615

The Snapdragon 600 series has over 1450 designs and Qualcomm believes that the 660 has already been a success. Welcome, then, to te Snapdragon 670 that brings update to AI, performance, camera and multimedia.

Qualcomm wants you to remember that this is not a simple application processor. The Snapdragon chip comes with RF transceiver for connectivity, 802.11ac 2x2, Bluetooth, FM Radio and NFC for wireless, RF360 modules, Quick charge, Aqstic and security component.

The new Snapdragon 670 - a clear update to the 660 - has 1.8 times faster AI performance compared to 660, updated Spectra 250 dual camera image sensor processor, Hexagon 685 DSP has eight Kryo 360 cores with up to 15 percent better performance compared to Snapdragon 660’s Kryo 260 cores. The 670 comes with Adreno 615. The Snapdragon 670 comes with the Snapdragon X12 600/ 150 Mbps capable LTE A modem supporting 3X Carrier aggregation and Bluetooth 5.0.

Kryo 360 cores debuted with Snapdragon 710 and they are based on the Cortex A75 and Cortex A55 combo and this is exactly what you can see with the Snapdragon 670. The main difference is that the 670 has maximal clock of 2.0 GHz / 1.7 GHz for A55 based silver cores compared to 2.2 GHz / 1.7 GHz with the Snapdragon 710.


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