Yeah, it was originally supposed to be aimed at the Asian market for an affordable-premium options. Oppo, Vivo, Xiaomi all had options. To be confusing, it is not long ago that they announced the 712, which is the 710 but a tiny bump in processor speeds and currently only on the Xiaomi Mi 9 SE
Who is qualcomm making these for? Apart from the Snapdragon 660, i am not seeing phones with any of the other chips. A couple of devices maybe like a oppo phone and nokia 8.1 but thats it.
660 most likely will phase out and next 8 years we will see 665 variants. 730 will be very rare indeed, like 710 was. The xomnaies want to have very cheap midrange chips aka 660 and very highend chips like 835, 845 and so on. Low highend did not have market... it seems.
I think the clock speed of both the SoC should be increased to some extent, say, 2.3 GHz for SD 665 and 2.5 GHz for SD 730. I believe 11nm and 8nm nodes are small enough to handle higher clock speeds without throttling and I do hope Adreno 618 in the SD 730 is almost as powerful as Adreno 630 in the SD 845.
Not to mention the memory bandwidth is half that of the SD845 and the system cache is 1/3. Even if it was as powerful as a 630 (not likely) it would be greatly diminished by that bandwidth.
I don't believe 665 has any "generation jump", it's a direct die shrink of 660 with perhaps minimal hardware tweaks. Otherwise it would have been way too expensive to design compared to just underclock 675.
They should release a quad cortex a55 cpu for the low end, i think that would be popular, use 12nm or something for it and add support for AV1 hardware decoding/encoding.
AV1 is unrealistic before late 2020. And Quad A55 on 1x mm provides no improvement over Octa A53 while costing tens of millions to design and support. They have to have 6+2 chips, so it makes more sense to just disable the big core on that and sell it for the niche market.
The article here say "Qualcomm will also deliver a Snapdragon 730G variant of the chipset promising 15% greater graphics performance, a bin variant of the Snapdragon 730 with higher clock speeds." but Qualcomm's site said 730G will have maximum clock of 2.2GHz which is same as the non-G 730.
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Teckk - Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - link
Didn't see too many devices with SD 710? Was there any device reviewed with the chip, Nokia 8.1?GC2:CS - Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - link
Would be interesting to see how A76 performs on 8nm node.A5 - Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - link
I think it was very popular with second-tier Chinese OEMs, like your Meizus, etc. Don't have numbers on that, though.MightyGadget - Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - link
Yeah, it was originally supposed to be aimed at the Asian market for an affordable-premium options. Oppo, Vivo, Xiaomi all had options.To be confusing, it is not long ago that they announced the 712, which is the 710 but a tiny bump in processor speeds and currently only on the Xiaomi Mi 9 SE
Mr Perfect - Wednesday, April 10, 2019 - link
If the rumors are to be believed, the upcoming Pixel 3a XL will have a 710 in it. I'm interested to see how it performs and where they price it.isthisavailable - Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - link
Who is qualcomm making these for? Apart from the Snapdragon 660, i am not seeing phones with any of the other chips. A couple of devices maybe like a oppo phone and nokia 8.1 but thats it.haukionkannel - Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - link
660 most likely will phase out and next 8 years we will see 665 variants. 730 will be very rare indeed, like 710 was. The xomnaies want to have very cheap midrange chips aka 660 and very highend chips like 835, 845 and so on. Low highend did not have market... it seems.c933103 - Wednesday, April 10, 2019 - link
There are dozens of device with Snapdragon 710 and also a few with 675, although most of them are mainly marketed toward markets like ChinaPeeCee - Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - link
I think the clock speed of both the SoC should be increased to some extent, say, 2.3 GHz for SD 665 and 2.5 GHz for SD 730. I believe 11nm and 8nm nodes are small enough to handle higher clock speeds without throttling and I do hope Adreno 618 in the SD 730 is almost as powerful as Adreno 630 in the SD 845.levizx - Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - link
That's unrealistic. 618 will never come close to 630, otherwise it would have been called 628Wardrive86 - Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - link
Not to mention the memory bandwidth is half that of the SD845 and the system cache is 1/3. Even if it was as powerful as a 630 (not likely) it would be greatly diminished by that bandwidth.levizx - Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - link
I don't believe 665 has any "generation jump", it's a direct die shrink of 660 with perhaps minimal hardware tweaks. Otherwise it would have been way too expensive to design compared to just underclock 675.Valantar - Wednesday, April 10, 2019 - link
Considering it has a new GPU, DSP and ISP, that is obviously not the case. A direct die shrink would mean zero architectural changes.levizx - Monday, May 20, 2019 - link
And you know those are new because they have a new name?spaceship9876 - Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - link
They should release a quad cortex a55 cpu for the low end, i think that would be popular, use 12nm or something for it and add support for AV1 hardware decoding/encoding.levizx - Wednesday, April 10, 2019 - link
AV1 is unrealistic before late 2020. And Quad A55 on 1x mm provides no improvement over Octa A53 while costing tens of millions to design and support.They have to have 6+2 chips, so it makes more sense to just disable the big core on that and sell it for the niche market.
levizx - Wednesday, April 10, 2019 - link
*nmanonym - Saturday, April 13, 2019 - link
SpreadTrum(formally UNISOC) announcedocta A55@28nm and 1xA75+3xA55 chip. I don't know which manufacturer use it
c933103 - Wednesday, April 10, 2019 - link
What about the 730G? Is that just higher-clocked GPU?c933103 - Wednesday, April 10, 2019 - link
The article here say "Qualcomm will also deliver a Snapdragon 730G variant of the chipset promising 15% greater graphics performance, a bin variant of the Snapdragon 730 with higher clock speeds." but Qualcomm's site said 730G will have maximum clock of 2.2GHz which is same as the non-G 730.