Qualcomm has made a fairly startling SoC declaration on 19th January 2021 as the new Snapdragon 870. The chip is a somewhat odd delivery in Qualcomm's chipset line-up in that this is really a section gotten from a year ago's Snapdragon 865 arrangement, with the new model being a different silicon bin that increases the clock frequencies for a little bit of extra performance and gaming capabilities. 

Despite the fact that it's getting a model name that would demonstrate more improvements from the previous generations but there aren't.

                                                                                                                         credit: Qualcomm

Snapdragon 870 is based on the same silicon chip (SM8250) that we saw utilized in the previous-gen Snapdragon 865 and Snapdragon 865+ a year ago, it seems that Snapdragon 870 is a part of 865 family.

The only change from the Snapdragon 865 and 865+ which were released last year is a slightly overclocked  Cortex-A77 cores, In which clock speed went from 3.09GHz to 3.20GHz.

In the present official statement, Qualcomm shares that key manufacturers, for example, Motorola, iQOO, OnePlus, OPPO and Xiaomi will utilize the Snapdragon 870 in their upcoming flagships. 

So it appears to be that this year we'll be seeing new flagship smartphones with both the Snapdragon 888 just as the Snapdragon 870 this year, which will be very interesting to see how that turns out in terms of features, performance, and especially price.


Snapdragon 870 Features:

CPU                                    1x Cortex A77
                                       @ 3.2GHz 1x512KB pL2

                                       3x Cortex A77
                                       @ 2.42GHz 3x256KB pL2

                                       4x Cortex A55
                                       @ 1.80GHz 4x128KB pL2


GPU                               Adreno 650 @ 670MHz



DSP / NPU                     Hexagon 698
                               
                                        15 TOPS AI
                                        (Total CPU+GPU+HVX+Tensor)



Memory                   4x 16-bit CH
Controller 
                                 @ 2133MHz LPDDR4X / 33.4GB/s
                                  or
                                 @ 2750MHz LPDDR5  /  44.0GB/s

                                 3MB system level cache



ISP/Camera            Dual 14-bit Spectra 480 ISP

                                 1x 200MP

                                 64MP ZSL or 2x 25MP ZSL

                                 4K video & 64MP burst capture



Encode/Decode       8K30 / 4K120 10-bit H.265

                                 Dolby Vision, HDR10+, HDR10, HLG

                                 720p960 infinite recording 



Modem                   Paired with external X55 

                                 (LTE Category 24/22)
                                 DL = 2500 Mbps
                                 7x20MHz CA, 1024-QAM
                                 UL = 316 Mbps
                                 3x20MHz CA, 256-QAM

                                 (5G NR Sub-6 + mmWave)
                                 DL = 7000 Mbps
                                 UL = 3000 Mbps



Manufacturing       TSMC
Process                    7nm(N7P)