Chipset company Qualcomm Technologies has introduced two new mobile platforms, Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 and 630 for smartphone companies.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 600, the earlier version, has already reached 1000 designs. Qualcomm has started shipping Snapdragon 660, while Snapdragon 630 will begin shipping towards the end of this month.
Both phone chipsets are designed to support advanced photography and enhanced gaming, in addition to long battery life and fast LTE speeds.
“A greater number of consumers will be able to take advantage of higher quality user experiences in camera, audio and visual processing, connectivity, CPU and GPU performance, fast charging, security and machine learning,” said Kedar Kondap, vice president, product management, Qualcomm Technologies.
Features of Snapdragon 660 and 630
Qualcomm Spectra 160 camera ISP supports improved photographic image quality for more natural skin tones, superior low light photography, as well as better power efficiency and higher throughput for dual camera smartphones.
Qualcomm Hexagon 680 DSP featuring vector extensions (HVX) on the Snapdragon 660 Mobile Platform enables high performance, power efficient processing of imaging, computer vision, and machine intelligence workloads, another first in the 600 tier.
Snapdragon 660 and 630 feature a Snapdragon X12 LTE Modem, paired with SDR660 RF transceiver, supporting peak downlink data rates of 600Mbps. Snapdragon 660 supports 2×2 MU-MIMO 802.11ac Wi-Fi for twice as much data throughput and up to 60 percent lower download power consumption as the Snapdragon 652.
It also offers improved coverage, especially in homes, and offices with hard to penetrate brick and concrete walls as well as advanced features such as LTE/Wi-Fi antenna sharing, and Dual Band Simultaneous (DBS) operation.
Both platforms come with advanced RF front-end support including Qualcomm TruSignal adaptive antenna tuning with carrier aggregation, designed to dynamically optimize signal quality in varying user conditions for wide network coverage and more consistent data and voice experience.
The Snapdragon 660 and 630 offers up to 50 – 75 percent lower power consumption (compared to previous generation) for pedestrian navigation. Both platforms also feature Bluetooth 5 support, which doubles the amount of data that devices can transfer compared to the previous iteration.
Snapdragon 660 features a 20 percent improvement in the Qualcomm Kryo 260 CPU and 30 percent improvement in the Qualcomm Adreno 512 GPU performance, ensuring a better gaming and multimedia experience for end users.
Snapdragon 630 offers a 30 percent increase in Adreno 508 GPU performance over its predecessor, as well as a 10 percent increase in CPU performance over its predecessor.
The Snapdragon 660 and 630 Mobile Platforms feature the latest innovations in Quick Charge technology, which supports up to 5 hours of talk time in just 5 minutes of charging and up to 50 percent battery life in 15 minutes of charging.
