Qualcomm has announced a new 5G mobile platform to power premium mid-tier devices. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 5G mobile platform, as it is known, is the successor to the Snapdragon 865 and Snapdragon 865 Plus but behind the new high-end Snapdragon 888 5G mobile platform, which made its debut in the Xiaomi Mi 11 and US variants of the Galaxy S21 5G smartphones.
The Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 Mobile Platform supports truly global 5G sub-6 GHz and mmWave and feature the same octa-core CPU as the Snapdragon 865, however, the speed of the Kyro 585 CPU prime core has been boosted up to 3.2GHz. The rest of the specs include Adreno 650 GPU, Qualcomm FastConnect 6800 Subsystem, Qualcomm Sensing Hub, Qualcomm Hexagon 698 Processor, Qualcomm Snapdragon Elite Gaming, and Quick Charge 4+.
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Unlike the Snapdragon 888 which includes the Snapdragon™ X60 5G Modem-RF system support for Wi-Fi 6E, the Snapdragon 870 has the same Snapdragon X55 5G Modem-RF system on the Snapdragon 865 and 865+ mobile platform and supports only Wi-Fi 6. Qualcomm has confirmed the mobile platform will make its appearance in devices from iQOO, Motorola, OnePlus, OPPO, and Xiaomi.
Source: Qualcomm Newsroom
