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Another year, another midrange Qualcomm chip.

It’s new Snapdragon processor day everyone! The Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2 is the successor to last year’s Snapdragon 7 Gen 1, and is destined for phones costing between $400 and $600.

AnandTech has a thorough breakdown of all the changes, but the headline improvements are an up to 50 percent boost to CPU performance, and a GPU that’s two times faster.

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