News & Reviews:   Snapdragon

Based on a statement by a user on weibo, it seems that next year’s upcoming Redmi smartphone could come equipped with the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 chipset. While not much is known in regards to the exact nature of the smartphone, it does give us a better idea on what to expect when it is officially available in the global market.

If you don't know DxOMark, they are a group that specializes in reviewing, testing and grading smartphone cameras. And if you're a smartphone enthusiast, you would probably have come across its name for giving scores on newly release smartphones but it seems that they are introducing a U.S.-only ranking.

Based on a report spotted on xueqiu.com, it seems that HONOR is currently in the talks with Qualcomm to have their premium smartphones outfitted with the Snapdragon 888 chipset. While not much is known in regards to which smartphone will be getting the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 chipset, it does give us an idea on what to expect from HONOR in the year 2021.

During Qualcomm Snapdragon Tech Summit 2020, Qualcomm has officially unveiled the Snapdragon 888 5G chipset, which comes equipped with 5G connectivity, as well as the 6th Gen Qualcomm AI processor to aid users in various tasks. To go into more detail, the aforementioned chip is able to achieve up to 26 TOPS (tera operations per second) which is one of the highest to date.

When people evaluate a smartphone these days, benchmarking is often one of the first things they do. While benchmarks don't necessarily tell the full story, it can help us gauge some aspects of a device's performance. In that sense, knowing how well the Snapdragon 775 and 875 chipsets can perform is useful.

Based on a statement by DigitalChatStation on weibo, it seems that the upcoming Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 chipset is expected to come equipped with a large core that’s capable of achieving up to 3.2GHz. While it may not perform as fast as the Qualcomm Snapdragon 875 chipset, our source did note that the SD875 will focus more on lowering power consumption.

Recently, smartphone manufacturers are not slowing down on their new devices especially for the growing smartphone company, realme. Today, there is an unknown realme smartphone found on GeekBench benchmarking with the model number of RMX2194. Other than having the benchmark scores, the listing also revealed some key specs of the device as well which seems to be an entry-level smartphone.

Based on a statement by Digital Chat Station on weibo, it seems that a Qualcomm Snapdragon 875 benchmark hints that the chipset performs better than the HiSilicon Kirin 9000 chipset. However, in the GPU department, both chipsets perform about equal.

November is upon us and we draw closer to the unveiling of Qualcomm's next chipset. This was hinted near the start of October, when the company announced that its next Tech Summit would be at the start of December 2020. Rumours of the Snapdragon 875 chipset has begun appearing too and the latest is a benchmark score.

Based on a statement by Digital Chat Station on weibo, it seems that OPPO could be the first to come equipped with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 chipset. While not much is known in regards to the release date, our source did mention that the aforementioned chipset will likely come with similar performance minus a few features as the flagship chipset.