Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 678 SoC which focuses on improving photo quality, connectivity and battery life.
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 678 is manufactured using an 11nm manufacturing process. It gets a Kryo 460 CPU clocked at 2.2GHz, up from the 2.0GHz on the Snapdragon 675. The GPU remains the same Adreno 612, but Qualcomm says the company has increased its performance. Qualcomm Snapdragon 678 is optimized for Unity, Messiah, NeoX and Unreal Engine 4.
The Qualcomm Snapdragon 678 supports resolutions up to 2520 x 1080 pixels with 10-bit colour depth. The 14-bit signal processor Qualcomm Spectra 250L is responsible for image processing.
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The SoC supports camera features such as portrait mode, low light, laser autofocus, 4K video at 30fps, 5x optical zoom, slow motion (up to 1080p at 120fps), and more. It also supports HEVC (High-Efficiency Video Coding) and has support for accelerated electronic image stabilization.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 678 received an X12 LTE modem, which does not support 5G. However, the peak download and data transfer rates are 600 and 150 Mbps, respectively. There is support for Wi-Fi 802.11ac, Bluetooth 5.0, NFC, Beidou, Galileo, GLONASS, GPS, QZSS, SBAS, USB-C with USB-3.1 support, up to 8 GB of DDR4 RAM at 1866 MHz, AVC, Qualcomm aptX, Quick Charge 4+ and more.
