US-based silicon maker Qualcomm has announced the launch of Snapdragon 6s Gen 4, its new budget phone chipset. The name might put you in confusion, but here it is. The latest processor clocks to 2.4 GHz and comes with an octa-core setup. Going by its specs, it will make budget phones more powerful and able, but with one key shortcoming. Let’s find all of it down below.
Snapdragon 6s Gen 4 power and performance are good
The Snapdragon 6s Gen 4 chipset has claimed a 36% improvement in CPU performance and is said to be 59% faster than its predecessor. It consists of eight cores in a 4+4 setup.
- Four are performance cores that clock up to 2.4 GHz, and
- Four efficiency cores that run up to 1.8 GHz.
These are decent clock speeds, and they work in tandem to provide balanced operations on the phone. Flagship phones come with processor whose clock speeds are much higher but that’s a different realm in the smartphone industry.
Graphically intensive and multi-tasking will be handled by performance cores, while single-app and minor works, such as browsing and normal running of the phone, will be taken up by the efficiency cores. Such optimization not only provides smooth performance but also contributes to better battery efficiency. But the naming scheme from Qualcomm is conventionally unconventional.
Display, Camera support, etc.
The midrange chipset supports FHD+ resolution, which is more common these days. It also provides support for Bluetooth 5.4, mmWave and sub-GHz 5G connectivity and for wireless, WiFi 6e. The 5G modem on this chipset supports downlink speed of 2.9 Gbps.
For photography, it has support for Qualcomm Spectra ISP for a single 200 MP camera, a single 32 MP, or double 16 MP cameras. It can also allow the camera to record videos at up to 2k resolution. The great thing here, though, is that it supports up to 12 GB of RAM with UFS 3.1 storage.
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But there’s no AI
One thing that seems to be lacking here is the capabilities of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Qualcomm hasn’t mentioned the chipset’s AI features, so it could mean that phones with this processor will have any AI abilities. While the chipset makes budget phones more powerful, AI is not coming to affordable phones as yet. At least that’s what we can gather from the exclusion of it in this chipset.
Chipsets such as Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 come with all the bells and whistles, including AI. The ones with 7 in their names such as Snapdragon 7s Gen 4 and Snapdragon 7 Gen 4 are midrange ones with AI support. Down the order, midrange chipsets are making affordable phones more powerful, but it seems that AI will take some years to be everywhere. Speaking of which, Snapdragon 6s Gen 4 stays at the lower end of the midrange chipsets.
This chipset might power phones under 25000 in Nepal or at the similar price ranges. Those phones will certainly appear on our posts in the near future.
