For those who are not familiar with Snapdragon mobile chip designation, the Snapdragon 8 and 7 Series are predominantly reserved for premium products. The designated platform for the mid-range market would then be the Snapdragon 6 Series which is then followed by Snapdragon 4 and Snapdragon 2 Series products for the mass and low-end markets, respectively.
Being a new processor, the Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 brings together some performance improvements over its predecessor. Specifically, Qualcomm said that the Kryo CPU inside the new chip can deliver up to 40% more performance than the CPU in Snapdragon 695 while the Adreno GPU can render up to 35% faster.