Qualcomm is sending out invites in China for the launch of their mid-range chipset, the Snapdragon 660. The company will announce the processor on May 9th. This chipset is mainly aimed at the mid-range smartphone market, and is a cheaper alternative to the high-end SD 835.
The Snapdragon 660 is manufactured using Samsung’s 14nm FinFet process and is designed to be powerful and efficient. It will feature 8 cores in total, with a combination of Cortex-A73 and A53 cores. For graphics, the chipset will come with Adreno 512 GPU and would include support for dual-channel LPDDR4X-1866 memory.
Read: Snapdragon 660 processor specs
The chipset would also support UFS 2.1 storage, LTE Cat.10, and camera up to 24MP resolution. That’s pretty good for a mid-range chipset and we’ve already heard of a few upcoming smartphones that are supposed to feature the SD 660, such as the Sony Xperia X Ultra.
Leaked benchmarks have shown that the chipset performs similar to last years Snapdragon 820 flagship chipset. We’ve already heard and seen a lot of leaks and rumors about the SD 660, and now we have an official announcement date.
via GizmoChina
really looking forward to this processor, has the ARM core cluster same as the Huawei’s Kirin 960 chip which was the best in class trough out 2016 even beating the SD820, if this manages to perform as well as the Kirin 960 then we will definitely see this chip in the upcoming affordable budget series Xiaomi devices or even the most expensive ASUS, Samsung, HTC or Sony phones!! Thanks to those 4-A73 cores and Adreno 512 GPU doing day to day as well as intensive tasks and even high graphics gaming will be a Breeze and with those low power 4-A53 cores and 14nm based cluster battery life won’t be a problem!! these chip will be the overall budget master piece from Qualcom Snapdragon!!
Performs similar to the 820 chipset. Wow. Thats like a year old flagship standard. They haven’t held much back with this one. Snapdragon is looking to get a stronger hold in Asia, especially the Chinese market. India is also a huge smartphone market right now but not in terms of manufacturing I guess. Most Chinese companies sell in India. And 660 seems to be perfectly what this kind of market wants. Economical and yet uncompromising. Even seems to have a decent GPU.
really looking forward to this processor, has the ARM core cluster same as the Huawei’s Kirin 960 chip which was the best in class trough out 2016 even beating the SD820, if this manages to perform as well as the Kirin 960 then we will definitely see this chip in the upcoming affordable budget series Xiaomi devices or even the most expensive ASUS, Samsung, HTC or Sony phones!! Thanks to those 4-A73 cores and Adreno 512 GPU doing day to day as well as intensive tasks and even high graphics gaming will be a Breeze and with those low power 4-A53 cores and 14nm based cluster battery life won’t be a problem!! these chip will be the overall budget master piece from Qualcom Snapdragon!!
With this chipset in the market and chinese OEMs like Xiaomi out there the budget segment is likely to turn out really great with the performance of SD835 for a much cheaper price
Performs similar to the 820 chipset. Wow. Thats like a year old flagship standard. They haven’t held much back with this one. Snapdragon is looking to get a stronger hold in Asia, especially the Chinese market. India is also a huge smartphone market right now but not in terms of manufacturing I guess. Most Chinese companies sell in India. And 660 seems to be perfectly what this kind of market wants. Economical and yet uncompromising. Even seems to have a decent GPU.
With this chipset in the market and chinese OEMs like Xiaomi out there the budget segment is likely to turn out really great with the performance of SD835 for a much cheaper price