Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 780G, an SoC for smartphones manufactured through a 5nm manufacturing process.
The Snapdragon 780G is the first mid-high-range SoC, the Snapdragon 7 series, to have three ISPs installed. It has image processing capability that can shoot at 25 million pixels simultaneously from three cameras. In addition, the new architecture that responds to low light also improves low-light shooting performance.
The installed CPU, the kryo 670, improves performance by up to 40% from the previous generation Snapdragon 678, supports some features of Snapdragon Elite Gaming, and updates the GPU driver just like the top model, the Snapdragon 8 series. And True 10 bit HDR display.
In addition, the 6th generation AI engine through the Hexagon 770 is mounted, raising the AI performance to 12TOPS, which is twice the AI performance of the previous generation Snapdragon 768. The 5G modem is equipped with the Snapdragon X53 5G modem-RF system, erasing SA, NSA, TDD, FDD, and DSS. Sub-6 downloads are up to 3.3Gbps. It also supports Snapdragon Sound, which provides a low-latency, high-quality wireless audio experience for the first time in the Snapdragon 7 series.
Commercial devices equipped with the Snapdragon 780G are expected to appear in the second quarter of 2021. Related information can be found here.