Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 712: A Higher Bin 710
by Andrei Frumusanu on February 7, 2019 1:00 PM EST- Posted in
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- Snapdragon 710
- Snapdragon 712
Today Qualcomm announced a new entry into its “upper mid-range” line-up of SoCs: The Snapdragon 712. The announcement is quite surprising, as it seems the chip might possibly simply be a higher bin variant of the Snapdragon 710:
| Qualcomm Snapdragon Upper Mid-Range SoCs | |||
| SoC | Snapdragon 710 | Snapdragon 712 | Snapdragon 675 |
| CPU | 2x Kryo 360 (CA75) @ 2.2GHz 6x Kryo 360 (CA55) @ 1.7GHz |
2x Kryo 360 (CA75) @ 2.3GHz 6x Kryo 360 (CA55) @ 1.7GHz |
2x Kryo 460 (CA76) @ 2.0GHz 256KB L2 6x Kryo 460 (CA55) @ 1.7GHz 64KB L2 |
| GPU | Adreno 616 | Adreno 616 +10% |
Adreno 612 |
| DSP | Hexagon 685 | ||
| ISP/ Camera |
Spectra 250 ISP 32MP single / 20MP dual |
Spectra 250 ISP triple-camera support |
|
| Memory | 2x 16-bit @ 1866MHz LPDDR4X 14.9GB/s 1MB system cache |
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| Integrated Modem | Snapdragon X15 LTE (Category 15/13) DL = 800Mbps 3x20MHz CA, 256-QAM UL = 150Mbps 2x20MHz CA, 64-QAM |
Snapdragon X12 LTE (Category 12/13) DL = 600Mbps 3x20MHz CA, 256-QAM UL = 150Mbps 2x20MHz CA, 64-QAM |
|
| Encode/ Decode |
2160p30, 1080p120 H.264 & H.265 |
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| Mfc. Process | 10nm LPP | 11nm LPP | |
On paper, the only visible difference between the Snapdragon 712 and its predecessor seems to be a 100MHz boost on the part of the CPU cores. Qualcomm also claims that the new chip offers 10% faster graphics rendering compared to the 710, which would consecutively mean that the Adreno 616 is seeing a similar boost in its clock frequency.
At the time of writing we can’t see any other differences between the two products. As a reminder, Qualcomm Snapdragon branding not merely covers the SoC chip itself, but the whole platform which also includes accompanying components such as PMICs, WiFi chipsets, audio chipsets as well as RF front-end solutions for cellular connectivity. Stay tuned as we try to find out more and confirm on whether the chip differs in any other way.
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Source: Qualcomm
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Mikl1984 - Thursday, February 7, 2019 - link
Main difference is Wi-Fi supporting 60 GHzTri-band Wi-Fi: 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz with Dual Band Simultaneous (DBS) + 60 GHz
Andrei Frumusanu - Thursday, February 7, 2019 - link
No. The 710 supported all of that already.Mikl1984 - Thursday, February 7, 2019 - link
I am based on comparisonhttps://www.qualcomm.com/products/snapdragon-712-m...
https://www.qualcomm.com/products/snapdragon-710-m...
Another difference QC 4+
May be on paper only again :)
IGTrading - Friday, February 8, 2019 - link
@Andrei Frumusanu : If Qualcomm offers the 712 for the same price as 710 or will move the 710 into a lower price bracket, then we kinda have Qualcomm competing with Qualcomm and competition is always welcome :)phoenix_rizzen - Thursday, February 7, 2019 - link
XDA is posting that the SD712 supports Qualcomm's True Wireless Stereo (or whatever they call it) for independent connections to a pair of wireless ear buds, and Broadcast Audio for sending BT Audio to multiple client devices simultaneously.However, they have some errors in their spec table so not sure if this audio bit is accurate or not.
danielfranklin - Thursday, February 7, 2019 - link
Isnt the true wireless thing just BT5.0?They may have updated the firmware stack or something in the BT of th 712 though i guess.
Anyway, doesnt even look like a respin, just a small clockbump. I dont think there is anything different on the silicon.
I wonder if their testing has shown the 2.3ghz Kyro 360 matching the 2.0ghz 460 in many tasks.
I would still think the 460 in the SD675 would be faster in a number of tasks.
I dont know much about Samsung 11nm process, apparently its more of a small tweak to the 14nm process.
They should have just built the 675 with its Kyro 460 on 10nm with the 710 radio and stopped having so many SKUs and give better performance to everyone.
watzupken - Friday, February 8, 2019 - link
I wonder why they even bother to come up with a +2 model for the purpose of a slight clockspeed bump...niva - Tuesday, February 12, 2019 - link
They don't. It's just the manufacturing processes are now better, allowing them to squeeze out more juice out of the processors at the same thermal envelopes.The firmware changes that might add new capabilities are probably based on existing research they're doing on any/all of their chips with a simple determination that it could also work on this one.
In summary, these chips are the same in terms of production, with higher clocks and minor changes to the firmware within the chips/modems that allow more capabilities to be added. Since the end result is a better chip with more capability, might as well call it a new model.
zodiacfml - Friday, February 8, 2019 - link
I can't think of a smartphone that has the 710 chip.Solo450 - Friday, February 8, 2019 - link
There are some that are sold in China only.But outside of China the Nokia 8.1 may currently be the only smartphone that has the SD710.