Prepared for release a cheaper version of the flagship Snapdragon 888 processor

Qualcomm is preparing to release a cheaper version of the flagship Snapdragon 888 processor. This became known thanks to

the appearance of a new Vivo smartphone on Geekbench.

It appears in the database under model number V2045.The smartphone scored 1034 points in the single-core test and 3513 points in the multi-core test. The processor scores lower than the Snapdragon 888 and higher than the Snapdragon 865. Sources have suggested that this could be the Snapdragon 870 model that was rumored last year.

According to insiders, Snapdragon 870 isslightly degraded version of Snapdragon 888. So far, there is little information about the platform. We know, in fact, only that we can expect the release of an intermediate model between Snapdragon 865 and Snapdragon 888.