The champ among the recently announced chips is the Snapdragon 625 which is built around the 14nm process. This allows the phone’s processor to be clocked beyond 2GHz and brings 4K video recording via 24MP cameras.
Unfortunately, the Snapdragon 625 maxes out at 1900 x 1200 resolution (60 fps) or 1080p (at 30 fps).
A notch lower are the Snapdragon 435 and 425 chips which are built using the 28nm process. These chips support up to eight Cortex-A53 cores that can be clocked up to 1.4GHz.
The Snapdragon 435 has an Adreno 505 GPU and supports displays up to Full HD at 60fps. The chip comes with an X8 modem that gives it Cat. 7 connectivity (300Mbps download and 100Mbps upload). There’s also Wi-Fi ac, Quick Charge 3.0 and Full HD video recording using 21MP cameras.
A notch lower, is the Snapdragon 425, which supports up to four Cortex-A53 processors that can be clocked up to 1.4GHz. The chip also comes with an Adreno 308 GPU, an X6 modem (Cat 4 connectivity - 150Mbps download and 75Mbps upload), Wi-Fi ac and Quick charge 2.0.
Qualcomm has also introduced the Snapdragon Wear 2100 for wearables. The chip is said to be 30% smaller but are 25% more energy efficient than the chips brands today use on their wearables.
The Snapdragon Wear 2100 supports a quad-core Cortex-A57 CPU that can be clocked up to 1.2GHz, an Adreno 304 GPU and supports displays up to 640 x 480 pixel in resolution ( up to 60Hz). There will be two version of the chip - one with 2G/3G/LTE connectivity and one with Bluetooth/Wi-Fi only.
The chip also supports NFC, GPS and Quick Charge 2.0.
