Qualcomm Snapdragon 480: Qualcomm's first budget 5G chipset launched

 

Hello friends and welcome again to your tech guide Techanalsysia. Today I am here with some latest news from Qualcomm itself. Yesterday on 4 January 2021 Qualcomm unveils its new budget-friendly 5G chipset named Snapdragon 480. This will be the first 5G SoC in the budget-friendly 4 series of Snapdragon processors by Qualcomm. It will bring 5G capabilities to the budget segment smartphones also and I am hoping that the smartphone manufacturers like Oppo, Vivo, Realme, Nokia, Xiaomi, Motorola will soon start to produce budget 5G phones by the end of Q1 of 2021. This will ensure that there will be plenty of budget-friendly 5G smartphones by the end of this year.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 480: Features

The Snapdragon 480 5G chipset will be an octa-core SoC based on an 8-nanometer fabrication process node. It will be equipped with the new integrated X51 5G modem RF system and can deliver good 5G speed on both the mmWave and Sub 6 gigahertz networks and will be capable of giving you a DL speed of 2.5 Gbps and an upload speed of 600 Mbps approximately.

Talking about internals the new snapdragon 480 5G SoC will boast 2 Kryo 460 Gold (Cortex A-76) performance cores clocked at 2 gigahertz and the remaining 6 Kryo 460 Silver (Cortex A-55) power-efficient cores clocked at 1.8 gigahertz. It’ll be coupled with Adreno 619 GPU which we’ve seen earlier this year is Snapdragon 750G, a Hexagon 686 DSP and according to Qualcomm there will be an increase of 70% in AI performance of the chip over its previous generations. It’ll also come with the Qualcomm’s new 345 ISP which will bring the feature of capturing photos with the three camera sensors simultaneously. This is also equipped with the Qualcomm Fast Connect 6200 will ensure compatibility of a lot of features like Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.1, Dual GPS mode, NavIC support, Quick charge 4+ support and aptX audio support.  

This new Snapdragon 480 5G chipset will also bring a 120hz refresh rate display up to Fullhd+ resolution and NFC. And can be equipped with LPPDDR4X ram in the dual-channel configuration 16-bit (32-bit) clocked at 2133 MHz (transfer rate up to 17 GB/s).

All this hardware combined as a package will give you a massive 100% improvement over old generation Snapdragon 460, said Qualcomm itself.

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