Qualcomm seems to have more products kept under its sleeve than we think. Recently, Snapdragon 680 chipset has surfaced on Geekbench, targeting the mid-range market. Keep reading for more details!

Qualcomm Snapdragon 680 for mid-range smartphones

Put the Snapdragon 710 aside, Qualcomm seems to have more chipsets in the works. To be specific, a Snapdragon 680 was spotted in Geekbench, which will be gearing towards future mid-range smartphones. Like other products in the Snapdragon 600-series, the chip could be built on the 14nm process, and bear a 2+4-core setup or a direct 6-core setup. Apparently, it is true.

According to the listing, the Snapdragon 680’s CPU has six cores, which is likely a 2+4 configuration; as we’ve seen in the Snapdragon 650 and 808 version. But please keep in mind that its name/number might not stay the same. For example, the upcoming Snapdragon 710 was initially called 670. Regarding the performance, we believe this processor may be a parred down version of the 710.

The clock speed of the big cores – 2.15 GHz – matches both the Kryo 260 in the SnD 660 and the Kryo 4xx in the 710. However, the single core results (1,900) are higher than what the Snapdragon 660 scores (1,600), suggesting these are the new 4th generation Kryo cores. Besides, multi-core performance score is slightly lower than what the SnD 660 has. But it will likely make more of a difference in benchmarks than in real life use, where tasks rarely stress more than two cores at the same time.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 680 availability

All in all, this looks like an excellent follow-up to Qualcomm’s mid-range offerings. By the way, the test was done on a Qualcomm development platform (arm64) with 6 GB of RAM. No phones with this chipset have launched yet. Stay tuned with us for more updates regarding this new mid-range chipset!