Qualcomm renames Snapdragon 620 and 618 to 652 and 650

Qualcomm has renamed the Snapdragon 620 and 618, announced in early 2015, to Snapdragon 652 and 650. The new naming should make the performance difference with the current socs clearer, according to the processor designer.

The socs in the Snapdragon 600 series that are already on the market, such as the 615, 616 and 617, are octacores built entirely from ARM Cortex A53 cores of equal speed. In the new socs, which were announced at the beginning of this year and will appear in smartphones from 2016, Qualcomm uses a big.Little design with economical and powerful cores. The Snapdragon 618 is a hexacore with four Cortex A53 cores and two fast A72 cores, the 620 is an octacore with four A72 and A53 cores.

The new socs also get an Adreno 510 GPU, which is a lot more powerful than the graphics chip in the current socs. Furthermore, the dual image signal processor can process 4k video images and photos with a resolution of up to 21 megapixels. There is also support for slow motion videos in full HD resolution at 120 fps.

On closer inspection, Qualcomm has concluded that the naming chosen at the beginning of this year does not make the difference with the current Snapdragon 600 socs clear. That is why the manufacturer renames the Snapdragon 618 to 650 and the Snapdragon 620 as 652. Qualcomm says it has spent the past twelve months developing the new socs. Devices with the Snapdragon 650 and 652 should appear ‘soon’.