Qualcomm revamps its entry-mid range processors with high end features

Qualcomm has just unveiled their latest batch of chipsets, the Snapdragon 415, 425, 618, and 620, about time too considering that they’re getting serious competition from the likes of MediaTek and even Samsung’s own Exynos chipset.

There has been a stronger need for Qualcomm to step up their game, especially in the entry-mid range segment where low cost high performance is vital.

The two new members of the Snapdragon 600 line on the other hand, are the first to use the brand-new Cortex-A72 cores which is claimed to deliver twice the typical performance of the Cortex-A75 processors. The Snapdragon 618 is a 64-bit hexa-core chipset that has four Cortex-A53 cores mated to two Cortex-A72 ones, with a next-gen Adreno unit for it’s GPU as Qualcomm is keeping mum about the exact model at the moment. The 618 also features 4K video recording and hardware decoding while being capable of powering displays of up to 1600 x 2560 pixels.

As for the Snapdragon 620, the octa-core chip features four Cortex-A72 cores and four Cortex-A53 ones which makes the processing potential for this pretty massive. The rest of the specs are about the same as the Snapdragon 618 with 2K internal display support, 4K recording and playback as well as that next-gen Adreno graphics unit. The chips can be paired with camera sensors no larger than 13MP and both chipsets will have X8 LTE modems for download speeds of up to 300Mbps and upload of 100Mbps.