Qualcomm Snapdragon 678 Mid-Range SoC Launched With Adreno 612 GPU, Kyro 460 CPU Architecture
News 18American chipmaker Qualcomm has announced the successor to its mid-range Snapdragon 675 SoC, the Snapdragon 678, which will deliver overall performance upgrades, high-speed connections for sophisticated video and photo capture, and immersive entertainment experiences. While announcing the new Snapdragon 678 chipset, Qualcomm said that the new processor brings advanced mobile capabilites for daily entertainment at lightning fast speeds. While the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 678 chipset comes with the same CPU architecture and GPU, the CPU maxes out at a 2.2GHz clock speed. The ISP used on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 678 chipset supports image capture from two cameras at up to a 16-megapixel resolution with zero shutter lag, or from a single camera at up to 25-megapixel with zero shutter lag.