Qualcomm unveils 5G-ready Snapdragon 690 SoC for midrange phones: Know more

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 690 also brings Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.1 with aptX adaptive codec support, up to 120Hz screen refresh rate support, and much more

After adding 5G network support to Snapdragon 8-series and 7-series processors, Qualcomm on Wednesday brought the 5G network support to its Snapdragon 6-series processors with the launch of Qualcomm Snapdragon 690 system-on-chip. Aimed at midrange smartphones between $300-$500 segment, the new SoC also brings Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.1 with aptX adaptive codec support, up to 120Hz screen refresh rate support, and much more.

Here is what the Qualcomm Snapdragon 690 brings on table:

CPU and GPU

The Snapdragon 690 is manufactured on Samsung’s 8nm LPP process. It has an octa-core CPU based on ARM’s bigLITTLE architecture. It has two big ARM Cortex-A77 cores