Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 announcement - the new sub-flagship king?

Following the senior Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipset, Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 7 Gen 1.It is a sub-flagship solution produced by

Architecturally, the chip consists of 8 cores: four Cortex-A710 (up to 2.36 GHz) and the same number of Cortex-A510 (up to 1.8 GHz).It also includes an Adreno 662 graphics accelerator, an AI engine and a Snapdragon X62 5G modem with Fast Connect 6900 system.Separately, it is worth mentioning the 14-bit ISP (image processing processor) Qualcomm Spectra, which supports 200MP cameras and 4K HDR video recording at 30fps, as well as slo-mo 720p@480fps.

Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 supports top standardsLPDDR5 memory (up to 16 GB) and UFS 3.1, FHD + (up to 144 Hz) and QHD + (60 Hz) screens. Qualcomm vaguely stated that graphics performance has increased by 20% over a certain predecessor - according to WhyLab, we are talking about Snapdragon 778G, and not about the much more powerful Snapdragon 780G. By the way, OPPO, Honor and Xiaomi have already officially announced their intention to release smartphones based on Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 in the near future.

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    According to Qualcomm