Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 5G chipset launched; To power future Oppo, OnePlus, Xiaomi phones – Latest News

Chip maker Qualcomm has launched the Snapdragon 870 5G mobile chipset as a follow-on to the flagship Snapdragon 865 Plus chipset. The new Snapdragon 870 5G chip claims a clock speed of up to 3.2 GHz and is armed with Kryo 585 CPU. “Snapdragon 870 will power a selection of flagship devices from Motorola, iQOO, OnePlus, OPPO, and Xiaomi,” confirmed Kedar Kondap, vice president, product management, Qualcomm Technologies.

The Snapdragon 870 5G chipset features Snapdragon X55 5G Modem-RF System and the Qualcomm FastConnect 6800 system. The Snapdragon X55 5G Modem-RF System enables insanely-fast 5G connectivity with peak speeds up to 7.5 Gbps. Plus, it offers widespread accessibility with support for mmWave, Sub-6 GHz, TDD, FDD, and Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS). With 5G and Wi-Fi 6 capabilities, the chipset also includes Adreno 650 GPU.

The chipset features 5th gen AI Engine including Qualcomm Hexagon 698 processor with Hexagon Tensor Accelerator, claiming up to 15 TOPS performance.

As for the camera, it offers Spectra 480 image signal processor with hardware accelerator for computer vision (CV-ISP) and Dual 14-bit CV-ISPs. It can support a single-lens camera of up to 200MP. There’s slow motion video recording support of up to 720p at 960 FPS. Video capture formats include Dolby Vision, HDR10, HDR10+, HLG. Video recording features include 4K video capture with simultaneous 64MP photo capture.