Qualcomm launched a new low-end (mid-range) smartphone chip, the Snapdragon 480, which is the successor to the Snapdragon 460 chipset. As the first chip in the Snapdragon 400 series, it boasts a 5G modem.
The hardware basis of the new chip, built on the 8nm production process, is made up of Kryo 460 processor cores clocked at a frequency of 2.0, which work together with economical Cortex-A55 cores with a frequency of 1,8 GHz. The graphics operations are handled by the Adreno 619 chip. According to Qualcomm, the performance of the processor and GPU is more than twice that of the Snapdragon 460.
The Snapdragon 480 is also equipped with the Hexagon 686 AI chipset, the performance of which should be more than 70% better than its predecessor, and the Spectra 345 image processor, which supports cameras with a resolution of up to 64MPx, video recording in a resolution of up to Full HD at 60 fps and allows you to take pictures from up to three photo sensors at once. Furthermore, there is support for display resolutions up to FHD+ and a refresh rate of 120 Hz.
In terms of connectivity, the chipset supports Wi-Fi 6, millimeter waves and sub-6GHz band, Bluetooth 5.1 standard and is equipped with a Snapdragon X51 5G modem. As the first chip of the 400 series, it also supports Quick Charge 4+ fast charging technology.
The chipset should be the first to appear in phones from manufacturers such as Vivo, Oppo, Xiaomi or Nokia, sometime in the first quarter of this year.
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