How about Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 processor?

Before Lushan's true face appeared, the outside world called it God U, which will become a mid-to high-end mobile phone this year, but is this mobile phone processor really that magical?

In order to make people feel intuitively, Doby Bian Xiao took out Snapdragon 660 and compared it with other processors.

Where is it?

First of all, it reveals the conclusion given by Qualcomm. Snapdragon 660' s performance is 20% and 30% higher than that of Snapdragon 653' s CPU and GPU, and its battery life optimization is better than that of Xiaolong 630, which supports QC4.0 fast charging.

In terms of specific parameters, Snapdragon 660 is based on 14nm technology, and supports up to 8GB RAM( 1866MHz LPDDR4 dual channel), 2560× 1600 resolution screen, dual cameras and so on. GPU is Adreno 5 12. The CPU is eight nuclear Kryo 260 (the highest frequency is 2.2GHz) with built-in baseband X 12 LTE, etc. , but it additionally supports 2× 2mu-MIMO 802.11AC Wi-Fi. Compared with Xiaolong 652, the data throughput can be doubled and the power consumption can be reduced by 60% when downloading.

According to these parameters, I mentally calculated the position of the processor (long-lost finger pinch), as shown below.

As a professional fortune teller, Bian Xiao is still a little uneasy about this rough calculation. After all, Kirin 950 and 955 are also included, but it will be clearer when pulled out. The figure below shows the specific parameter table of Kirin 955/950.

As can be seen from this table, Snapdragon 660, like 820, adopts the Kryo architecture of eight nuclear. Of course, GPU is one grade behind 820, and the manufacturing process also adopts 14nm.

From the process point of view, which process is better, 16nm FinFET adopted by Kirin 955 or 14nm LPP adopted by Samsung?

Although it is recognized that the smaller the size, the stronger the performance, but after all, they all belong to the same generation of technology, and the gap between the two will not be great.

On the CPU side, you can directly look at the evaluation chart below.

According to a previously exposed running chart, the number of Snapdragon 660 engineering machines has reached more than 65,438+500,000, plus LPDDR4X and UFS 2. 1.

It can be said that there is a connection between Snapdragon 660 and Kirin 950.

However, Kirin 955 was the processor released in the first quarter of last year. At present, flagship machine such as Huawei P 10/Mate9 has adopted Kirin 960, and even Glory V9 is equipped with it.

However, Snapdragon 660 is the main processor of high-end mobile phones, and this Qualcomm gives it more special functions, such as supporting QC4.0 fast charging.

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According to media exposure, the first model of this Snapdragon 660 processor is probably OPPO R 1 1, and Samsung's next-generation C-series mobile phone will also adopt it.

Earlier, it was reported that Xiaomi 6 will catch up with 660 when it launches the youth version, but it has been officially denied.

After playing an episode, someone will ask: "The flagship of the previous generation of OPPO was R9, why didn't 660 use R 10?"

That's a good question Bian Xiao was depressed, too. After all, OPPO R series phones are all odd numbers. Some people say that they are afraid to use 4, while others say that it is a naming habit and has a unique meaning.

After the episode, we continued to talk about mobile phones.

At present, OPPO R 1 1 will continue the design style of OPPO R9s, with a sleek and smooth body contour, and the back is highly similar to iPhone 7 Plus, including parallel dual cameras and iconic arc antenna.

As for the price, OPPO should make Snapdragon 660 play the role of 3K+. Many people dismiss this, but at least you can't play the glory of the king, which is progress (/covering your face).

As mentioned above, Xiaomi 6 denies using Snapdragon 660, so which mobile phones of Xiaomi will use 660?

Xiaomi MAX uses Xiaolong 652 processor, so the next generation of Xiaomi MAX2 will probably use Snapdragon 660 processor. MAX series has the characteristics of large size and long battery life. Many friends who like big-screen mobile phones also said that they are very much looking forward to the Xiaomi MAX equipped with 660.

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Someone will definitely ask, why only compare Snapdragon 660 with Kirin processor? In fact, MediaTek processors, especially the wonderful three-cluster architecture X30 and the still weak GPU performance, are not the key points. The key point is that it is said that it will be delayed for at least three months because of problems ... when it goes public on a large scale, it is estimated that it will be at least this fall.

Snapdragon 660 seems to give a shot in the arm to those manufacturers who are determined to do original design and conduct differentiated competition. With the cost of a mid-range platform, the hardware performance close to the flagship can be achieved, and the money saved can be used for the differentiated design of mobile phones: strengthening photography, enhancing HiFi, strengthening workmanship or interacting with "black technology"-finally, the price of the whole mobile phone can be controlled within the acceptable range of consumers.

Both the manufacturer and the final consumer will be satisfied, which is the genius of the successful "sub-flagship" scheme.

Therefore, it seems not too much for the outside world to call Snapdragon 660 "God U" this year. For mobile phone manufacturers, around 660 will make a big difference in the second half of this year. For mobile phone processor manufacturers, the pressure is still quite great.

When a manufacturer surpasses itself, it will quickly subvert the previous similar products. Fortunately, Snapdragon 660 has not shaken the position of 800 series processors, otherwise it will only leave itself embarrassed.