Qualcomm's Snapdragon 675 fits into the trend of multiple cameras and video games

In the case of games, the Snapdragon 675 also takes advantage of additional software optimization for a smoother game, as well as a tiered connectivity to ensure minimal interruption. Qualcomm listed PUBG and King of Honor two of the few games that already benefit from these features, the latter title can even run up to 60 frames per second – which is good, since the GPU is only a mid-range Adreno 612, but we'll see if it works as well outside the lab, especially when this chipset is manufactured using an LPP process of 11 nm instead of the finest 10 nm.

Qualcomm sees more and more smartphone manufacturers adding more and more cameras to their devices. This is an opportunity to sell a chipset that responds to this trend. To do this, the Snapdragon 675 uses a Spectra 250L image signal processor to support a triple camera, capable of seamlessly switching between telephoto, wide-angle and super-wide angle for 5x optical zoom, from both sides. other phone. This was not possible with the Spectra 250, although it could already connect up to six different cameras in any configuration.

In addition to the same old 25-megapixel single-camera camera, still captured with a frame-time lag equal to 30 frames per second, this Spectra 250L has acquired a 48-megapixel snapshot mode to satisfy manufacturers who wish to offer whatever something more daring. Another new feature is native bokeh support with HDR, as well as unlimited 720p 480 frames per second slow motion video capture – a first for a 600-level Snapdragon platform. Apart from that, you'll find the same support for hybrid autofocus, 4K video capture at 30 fps, motion-compensated time filtering and noise reduction on multiple images with accelerated image stabilization .

Finally, AI. This was the highlight of the earlier version of the Snapdragon 670 with its multi-core AI engine (consisting of the Hexagon 685 DSP, Kryo processor and Adreno graphics processor). At the time, the focus was on improving battery management, capturing better photos and improving speech recognition. to switch smart assistants. This time, the Snapdragon 675 uses the AI ​​to also allow a safer but faster face unlock – apparently up to three times faster than the Snapdragon 670, with a rate of acceptance from one to a million fake ones. According to Qualcomm's tests, even speech recognition is 10% more accurate than the previous chip set.