Xiaomi working on a Snapdragon 660 equipped smartphone?


I guess we all have high expectations from Xiaomi this year, especially now that we wait for several new models of the company to be unveiled.

Starting with the Xiaomi Redmi Note 4X, a new addition to the Redmi family that will be equipped with a Snapdragon 625 SoC. Xiaomi Mi 5C will be next in line for announcement with Xiaomi’s own Pinecone V670 SoC and last but not least, Xiaomi Mi6 is expected to hit the market in 3 different variants, equipped with both Snapdragon 835 and Pinecone V970 SoC’s.

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According to rumors however, the Chinese company is also working on another mid-range model that will be presumably equipped with Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 660 SoC! This chipset uses Samsung’s 14nnm LLP process technology and comes with 8 cores (a combination of A73 + A53) and a frequency range of 1.9GHz – 2.2GHz, that will probably demolish the AnTuTu benchmarks of last year’s Snapdragon 820 SoC!

The same rumors suggest that such a chipset could be used by Xiaomi to power a new member of the Redmi family or perhaps a new Xiaomi Max model that should replace the old phablet sometime in the near future.

The production of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 660 SoC is set to begin at the second quarter of 2017, so we expect to see this new Xiaomi smartphone just before summer.

What do you think?

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26 Comments

  1. Eric PK
    February 12, 2017

    I hope it goes into Mi Max 2

  2. julian noordennen
    February 12, 2017

    Fits with Xiaomi Redmi Pro 2 leaks.

    • Marc Borruat
      February 12, 2017

      I also guess it

    • February 12, 2017

      Yepp that’s probably the device 😉

  3. Eric PK
    February 12, 2017

    I hope it goes into Mi Max 2

  4. julian noordennen
    February 12, 2017

    Fits with Xiaomi Redmi Pro 2 leaks.

    • Marc Borruat
      February 12, 2017

      I also guess it

    • GizChina Greece
      February 12, 2017

      Yepp that’s probably the device 😉

  5. Karly Johnston
    February 12, 2017

    It will never demolish the 800 series in AnTuTu when the 600 series uses weak GPUs.

    • Marc Borruat
      February 13, 2017

      Why would it demolish the 800 series. Different markets, different goals..

      • Karly Johnston
        February 13, 2017

        Good question, why did OP say it would demolish the 820?

        • Marc Borruat
          February 13, 2017

          Ah sorry, just got it and I agree with you. According to the OP, it will propably not!

        • February 13, 2017

          Quote: “that will probably demolish the AnTuTu benchmarks of last year’s Snapdragon 820 SoC!”

          This means that this year’s SD660 SoC will probably get better AnTuTu benchmark results than last years SD820. Isn’t it normal given the fact that technology evolves every year?

          • Karly Johnston
            February 14, 2017

            Not when AnTuTu score is heavily dependent on GPU.

    • Iwanova
      February 13, 2017

      ???
      Snapdragon 650 destroy both 800/801
      But if you talking about 82x/83x, of course both wins. Duh.

  6. Nenjia F
    February 12, 2017

    Thank goodness it’s SnapDragon. MediaTek is slowly dying out, with lesser and lesser phone makers opting for their SoCs (except for obnoxious scum like Elephone and Doogee etc.)

  7. Karly Johnston
    February 12, 2017

    It will never demolish the 800 series in AnTuTu when the 600 series uses weak GPUs.

    • Marc Borruat
      February 13, 2017

      Why would it demolish the 800 series. Different markets, different goals..

    • Karly Johnston
      February 13, 2017

      Good question, why did OP say it would demolish the 820?

    • Iwanova
      February 13, 2017

      ???
      Snapdragon 650 destroy both 800/801
      But if you talking about 82x/83x, of course both wins. Duh.

    • Marc Borruat
      February 13, 2017

      Ah sorry, just got it and I agree with you. According to the OP, it will propably not!

    • GizChina Greece
      February 13, 2017

      Quote: “that will probably demolish the AnTuTu benchmarks of last year’s Snapdragon 820 SoC!”

      This means that this year’s SD660 SoC will probably get better AnTuTu benchmark results than last years SD820. Isn’t it normal given the fact that technology evolves every year?

    • Karly Johnston
      February 14, 2017

      Not when AnTuTu score is heavily dependent on GPU.

  8. Guest
    February 12, 2017

    Thank goodness it’s SnapDragon. MediaTek is slowly dying out, with lesser and lesser phone makers opting for their SoCs (except for obnoxious scum like Elephone and Doogee etc.)

  9. dutchgio
    February 13, 2017

    Redmi Pro 2 using the 660 perhaps?

  10. dutchgio
    February 13, 2017

    Redmi Pro 2 using the 660 perhaps?