A month after Qualcomm unveiled its new flagship mobile processor, the chipmaker followed it up by announcing four new members of the lower-tier Snapdragon family which are expected to make its way to mobile devices starting on the second half of this year.
Two of the four new SoCs that were launched belong to the Snapdragon 400 series namely the Snapdragon 415 and Snapdragon 425; both of which boasts eight (8) Cortex-A53 processing cores which are divided in two groups with varying clock speeds and are accompanied by an Adreno 405 GPU.
The other two processors, on the other hand, belong to the Snapdragon 600 family which comprises Snapdragon 618 and the Snapdragon 620. Both of these SoCs are equipped with a quad-core Cortex-A53 processors clocked 1.2Ghz which are assigned to take care of the menial tasks.
When the going gets tough, a set of new 1.8Ghz Cortex-A72 chips will do the dirty work for the new Snapdragon 600 processors. The Snapdragon 618 are equipped with two, while the Snapdragon 620 was endowed with four.
All of Qualcomm’s new processor are LTE-capable, albeit the Snapdragon 415 only has Qualcomm X5 LTE module which is peaks at 150Mbps DL and 50Mbps UL, while the rest of the gang are equipped with a Qualcomm X8 LTE modem which are capable of download and upload speeds of up to 300Mbps and 100Mbps respectively.
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I’m guessing the Zenfone 2 will be using 620? :)
ang bagal naman ng lte sa pinas, di din masusulit capabilities ng socs