Qualcomm presents 10nm soc for midrange smartphones
Qualcomm has presented the Snapdragon 710, a soc made on 10nm process for midrange smartphones. The soc has an Adreno 616 GPU, which makes it possible to watch 4k videos with HDR.
The Snapdragon 710 has eight Kryo 360 processor cores at up to 2.2GHz. Kryo is the name of Qualcomm’s custom Cortex cores. It is the first time that a soc has Kryo 360 cores; the Snapdragon 845 for high-end models has Kryo 385 cores. The Kryo 360 cores are based on Cortex A75 and A55. Qualcomm will probably let Samsung produce the soc. Samsung also makes other 10nm socs for the American processor designer.
The Snapdragon 710 falls between the Snapdragon 660 and 845 and has an X15 modem from Qualcomm itself. It supports 4g with 4×4 MiMo for a maximum download speed of 800Mbit/s and 150Mbit/s up, with support for, among other things, 256qam modulation.
The soc supports screens with a maximum resolution of 3360×1440 pixels; that’s a 21:9 ratio that’s not currently available on smartphones. The most commonly used aspect ratios are 19.5:9, 19:9 and 18:9.
According to Qualcomm, the Snapdragon 710 also has a “multi-core AI Engine” for performing calculations via a neural network on the soc. Many manufacturers use such chips for image recognition in the camera app.
The Snapdragon 710 is already with smartphone manufacturers and phone makers will launch the first models with this soc within about a month, according to Qualcomm.
| SD845 | 8x Kryo 385 | 2.8GHz | 630 | X20 | 1200/150Mbit/s | 4K |
| SD835 | 8x Kryo 280 | 2.4GHz | 540 | X16 | 1000/150Mbit/s | 4K |
| SD821 | 4x Kryo | 2.4GHz | 530 | X12 | 600/150Mbit/s | 4K |
| SD820 | 4x Kryo | 2.2GHz | 530 | X12 | 600/150Mbit/s | 4K |
| SD810 | 4x A57+ 4x A53 | 2/1.5GHz | 430 | X10 | 450/50Mbit/s | 4K |
| SD808 | 2x A57 + 4x A53 | 2/1.5GHz | 418 | X10 | 450/50Mbit/s | QHD |
| SD710 | 8x Kryo 360 | 2.2GHz | 616 | X15 | 800/150Mbit/s | QHD+ |
| SD660 | 4x Kryo 260 + 4x Kryo 260 | 2.2/1.8GHz | 512 | X12 | 600/150Mbit/s | QHD |
| SD653 | 4x A72 + 4x A53 | 2GHz | 510 | X9 | 300/150Mbit/s | QHD |
| SD652 | 4x A72 + 4x A53 | 1,8GHz | 510 | X8 | 300/100Mbit/s | QHD |
| SD650 | 2x A72 + 4x A53 | 1,8GHz | 510 | X8 | 300/100Mbit/s | QHD |
| SD636 | 8x Kryo 260 | 1,8GHz | 509 | X12 | 600/100Mbit/s | Full HD+ |
| SD630 | 4x A53 + 4x A53 | 2.2/1.8GHz | 508 | X12 | 600.150Mbit/s | Full HD |
| SD626 | 8x A53 | 2.2GHz | 506 | X9 | 300/150Mbit/s | Full HD |
| SD625 | 8x A53 | 2.2GHz | 506 | X9 | 300/150Mbit/s | Full HD |
| SD617 | 8x A53 | 1.5GHz | 405 | X8 | 300/100Mbit/s | Full HD |
| SD616 | 4x A53 + 4x A53 | 1.7GHz | 405 | X5 | 150/50Mbit/s | QHD |
| SD435 | 8x A53 | 1.4GHz | 505 | X8 | 300/100Mbit/s | Full HD |
| SD430 | 8x A53 | 1.2GHz | 505 | X6 | 150/75Mbit/s | Full HD |
| SD427 | 4x A53 | 1.4GHz | 308 | X9 | 300/100Mbit/s | hd |
| SD425 | 4x A53 | 1.4GHz | 308 | X6 | 150/75Mbit/s | hd |
| SD415 | 8x A53 | 1.4GHz | 306 | X5 | 150/50Mbit/s | Full HD |
| SD412 | 4x A53 | 1.4GHz | 306 | X5 | 150/50Mbit/s | Full HD |
| SD410 | 4x A53 | 1.2GHz | 306 | gobi | 150/50Mbit/s | Full HD |
| SD212 | 4x A7 | 1.3GHz | 304 | X5 | 150/50Mbit/s | hd |
| SD210 | 4x A7 | 1.1GHz | 304 | X5 | 150/50Mbit/s | hd |
| SD208 | 2x A7 | 1.1GHz | 304 | 3G | – | qHD |