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Mid-Range Smartphones Get Performance Boost

Snapdragon 778G Plus chip gives new life to mobiles



Mid-Range Smartphones Get Performance Boost
A Jump In GPU Performance

This new Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 chip gives new life to the mid-range smartphone market. The performance boosts will make you feel like you have a flagship device. Its AI performance boost just gives you more of reason to want this chip.

Performance Specs You'll Like

With 8 cores, it may not be the most CPUs, but it does provide some impressive figures. Its 8 cores are comprised of one Kryo 670 Prime (Cortex-A78) that’s clocked at 2.5GHz and three Kryo 670 Gold (Cortex-A78) ultra-high-performance cores which are clocked at 2.52 GHz. The last 4 cores are Kryo 670 Silver (Cortex-A55) which are power efficiency cores. They operate with the latest set of architecture instructions.

With the new chip, GPU performance gets the Adreno 642L GPU integrated. This GPU is Built with the new 6nm technology, giving the chip power efficiency that's very impressive. Processing speed is 550 MHz. Gamers will love the performance and smoothness of operation.

What You Really Need To Know

Picture quality is important for today's consumer, so lets talk image support. This chip brings support for 120Hz Quad HD+ displays. It also supports video capture up to 4K HDR and 200-megapixel sensors.

You won't be disappointed in its modem. The X62 modem offers 4.4Gbps connectivity and supports 3GPP Release 16 5G. 5G gamers will have an impressive amount of fun with this series chip.

Just for now, the ram memory is the new LPDDR5 with a frequency of 3200MHz. The max memory size will be 16GB with a bandwidth to be about 25.6 Gbit/sec. It also uses a 2×16 Bit buses. This is a noticeable improvement over current models in the market.

As stated, it’s fabricated using 6nm technology, which gives this chip improved power efficiency as well as reducing the generation of heat.

Source: Qualcomm
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