Qualcomm Snapdragon 690 Specifications, Comparison And Q&A

Qualcomm Snapdragon 690 Specifications, Comparison And Q&A

Today, Qualcomm officially unveiled its new Snapdragon 690 5G mobile platform. After the Snapdragon 8-series, Snapdragon 7-series, the Snapdragon 6 series introduces 5G since the start of the general availability of 5G, and it uses integrated 5G baseband.

For the first time, the Snapdragon 690 5G integrates a purpose-built Snapdragon X51 5G baseband and RF system, inheriting more advantages of the Snapdragon X55 (Snapdragon 865), Snapdragon X52 (Snapdragon 765/765G/768G) with its many features. Includes sub-6GHz and millimeter wave global 5G bands, global SA/NSA dual-mode, global multi-SIM, FDD/ TDD dual-standard, dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS), and support for 100MHz bandwidth, 4×4 MIMO.

However, there is a slight difference in 5G capabilities, with the Snapdragon X55 and Snapdragon X52 5G modes being able to have a maximum downlink rate respectively Reaching 3.7Gbps, 7.5Gbps, Snapdragon X51 down to 2.5Gbps, and 4G LTE mode is 1.2 Gbps max.

It’s also worth noting that the Snapdragon 690 5G supports dual SIM 5G+4G, and Qualcomm has also emphasized a greater focus on global interest in multi-card 5G+4G provides the best support for a global roaming experience, especially since VoLTE is very mature and has more multi-optimization. For 5G+5G dual SIM, Qualcomm believes it depends on the deployment of VoNR, the experience is not too good yet, but of course, the follow-up will stay tuned.

The Snapdragon 690 5G is built on Samsung’s 8nm process, and for the first time features a newly optimized Kryo 560 CPU architecture, based on the ARM A77/A55 design, including two large A77 cores, six small A55 cores, the highest frequency 2.0GHz, and 1.7GHz respectively for up to a 20% performance boost, while integrating the new Adreno 619L GPU for up to 60% performance improvement in graphics rendering.

Dual-channel LPDDR4X-2133 memory support, UFS 2.1 storage support, and network integration. FastConnect 6200 solutions with support for 2×2 Wi-Fi Wave 2, and Support for Wi-Fi 6 Ready, which means that while it’s not fully supported, it’s also partially available Wi-Fi 6 features.

The Snapdragon 690 5GG also devolves a lot of advanced features from the Snapdragon 8/7 series, such as support for 4K HDR video for the first time, for the first time, at a high refresh rate of 120Hz refresh rate for Full HD+ resolution and capture up to 192 megapixel’s of photos, and because of the integrated three ISPs, it can support three sets of 16-megapixel and other configurations of three cameras.

The first integration of the fifth-generation Qualcomm AI Engine and the first integration of the Hexagon 692 tensor accelerator ( HTA), the overall AI performance is improved by up to 70% over the previous generation.

The introduction of the AI Engine, combined with the Spectra 355L ISP and some excellent third-party algorithms, and can be a great help in many scenes of everyday shooting.

For example, the telephoto and near-field zoom switch can be very smooth, the background bokeh can be hair-raising accurate, and the algorithm of Rainbow Soft can be optimized. Super Night Mode reveals more detail and smoothes out otherwise over-exposed areas of a photo while brightening and sharpening dark areas so that The whole picture is much clearer.

The introduction of HTA, on the other hand, allows for scenarios that were previously not possible on the Snapdragon 6 series platform.

For example, taking a selfie captures hundreds of different feature points of the face, calculates and translates them into a child’s face in real-time, such as for different sounds.

Commercial devices powered by the Snapdragon 690 will be available in the second half of 2020, covering HMD Global, LG Electronics’ Motorola, Sharp, TCL, Wentao and other major OEM/ODMs, and with the introduction of the Snapdragon 690, the adoption of the Snapdragon more than 1,800 devices have been released or are in development for the Series 6 mobile platform.

Currently, there are more than 375 devices based on the Snapdragon 5G mobile platform that have been released or are being designed.

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