Qualcomm would diversify its offering of high-end processors by launching a cheaper version of the Snapdragon 875; Maybe Snapdragon 870

December will also bring us the annual event Qualcomm, the 2020 edition will take place in a virtual environment and will bring us the new flagship processor Snapdragon 875 which will be adopted by Galaxy S21, Xiaomi Mi 11 and OnePlus 9. Waiting for this release we discover that the American giant would be preparing a more accessible option of the aforementioned chipset, apparently called solution Snapdragon 870.

The details on the existence of this processor come today through the Chinese voice Digital Chat Station which states it Oppo is developing a smartphone equipped with Snapdragon 870 inside. From the translation of the post we learn that this will be a more accessible version of the Snapdragon 875, with a number of missing features.

The leaker himself claims that this new Qualcomm processor will reach a frequency of up to 3.2 GHz on the architecture’s super-performing core. It also says that the SD870 will be more powerful than the Snapdragon 865 but will not match the performance of the Snapdragon 875. It seems that Qualcomm takes into account the complaints of companies in the market that have seriously criticized the high prices associated with the Snapdragon 865/865 +.

This is how this Snapdragon 870 will be born, a middle solution that we will see on different phones. It is possible that this chip is what the Kirin 9000E is compared to the Kirin 9000, i.e. a processor with a lighter GPU.