Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 Official Specifications - Exemplary 10% Performance Boost


Qualcomm has announced it's latest flagship succeeding the Snapdragon 820. Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 has been announced and it will make its debut in the second half of this year.
Following are the full specifications. Question Marks indicate unconfirmed fields.:

CPU(s)

This chipset has 1x 2GHz Dual Core Kyro+1x 2.4 GHz Dual Core Kyro CPU(s) with 3072KB? L2 cache. It belongs to the flagship category of chipsets that can easily run most apps out there. The lower clocked CPU is used under battery saving conditions while both of them may be activated under extreme workloads such as gaming, benchmarking or multitasking but it depends on whether App will effectively use all the CPUs or not.

Number of Cores

This System on Chip has 4 cores clocked at 2.4 GHz(Max). It can provide exemplary levels of performance with maximum efficiency for today's apps and multitasking. Cores of a SoC have a great impact on the performance as they determine the how the workload is distributed across the chipset as well as the maximum number of apps that can run without stuttering on the smartphone/tab etc.

Architecture

This SoC was built on Kyro? architecture which was released 2016.

Lithography

This SoC was built on 14nm lithography which results in extremely efficient performance.

Maximum Camera Support

This SoC can effectively support a 51 MP camera at max indicating that it is mostly used on flagship level mobile devices.

64 Bit

This processor has 64 bit support.
64 bit support allows an SoC to manage more data along its bus width and allow more quantity of RAM to be paired with the chipset. Apps also run more easily and efficiently on 64 Bit processors.

GPU

This chipset has Adreno 530? with 650 MHz core clock speed. It has DirectX 12 and OpenCL API(s) running on it resulting in reduced overheads and extremely smooth graphical performance within games and movies. Graphically demanding apps will run properly on this SoC

Phones

Most popular phones using this chipset are...(none as of yet)

Tablets

Most popular tabs using this chipset are.....(none as of yet)

Difference Between Snapdragon 821 and Snapdragon 820

Qualcomm promises that Snapdragon 821 will complement the performance of Snapdragon 800 series. They claim that this processor has a 10% performance boost over the previous flagship. This difference is noticeably less than the massive 30% difference between Snapdragon 820 and Snapdragon 810.

Here is Qualcomm's announcement article. What are your thoughts on the new flagship? Let us know!

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