The company has confirmed that the chip comes with 10% faster boot loads and 10% faster app loads. The chip supports Snapdragon VR SDK, which means it supports Google’s Daydream platform. The SoC also supports dual phase detection, which should improve the AF as compared to the regular PDAF. There are improvements in the ISP as well to better work with Laser AF. Finally, the company surprisingly adds that the energy efficiency is improved by 5%.

While these are minor updates, what’s really interesting is the bumped up clock speed of Snapdragon 821’s Power Clusters. They are now clocked at 2.19GHz instead of 1.59GHz as seen on the SD820 chip. The performance clusters get a gentle speed up, from 2.15GHz on SD820 to 2.34GHz. The upgrade in GPU speed is also not much, from 624MHz to 653MHz in the new chipset. But then, Adreno 530 is already a great smartphone GPU, so there was hardly any need for significant upgrades in this department.

We can expect SD821 phones in September (although the first SD821 phone was announced a while back by ASUS) from companies like Xiaomi and LeEco. In case you missed, we spotted a new LeEco phone on AnTuTu with Snapdragon 821 which scores an impressive 163K. You can read more about the phone from here.

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The chipmaker reveals that Snapdragon 821 will offer 10% increase in performance as compared to Snapdragon 820. It features the same quad-core architecture as the SD820 but runs at 2.4GHz instead of 2.2GHz. The company is yet to reveal detailed specs of the new chip, but the GPU and other specs are expected to be almost similar to the Snapdragon 820.

RELATED: Xiaomi Said To Launch First Smartphone With Snapdragon 821

There are a lot of smartphones that are expected to feature this new chip, including the upcoming Xiaomi Mi Note 2 which may debut later this month. Then there’s LeEco flagship and even the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 is said to feature this upgraded Snapdragon 821 version.

Turns out, the Snapdragon 820 chip which started featuring inside flagships earlier this year, is old already!

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There are going to be two variants of the chip, which actually makes sense, as even the Snapdragon 820 has two variants. The first version (faster) MSM 8996SG (001-Y8) will come with second generation performance Hydra CPU clocked at 2.35GHz. Now, we aren’t exactly sure of what to expect from the Hydra CPU but last year, there were rumors about Qualcomm working on Hydra cores which will be custom made for the server market. However, later the rumors died down, so we aren’t sure whether this CPU has any resemblance to the earlier rumored one.

The GPU is still Adreno 530 clocked at 653MHz. Other features include LPDDR4 RAM support, 3x CA @ 60MHz and CDMA. The less powerful model, namely the MSM8996SD (001-Y8) comes with the same CPU clocked at slightly lower 2.15GHz with Adreno 530 GPU at 624MHz.

RELATED: LeEco Flagship said to feature Snapdragon 821 and 8GB RAM!

According to the latest information, Xiaomi should be the first model with the new Snapdragon 821 chip. It could either be the Mi Note 2 or the Mi5S model. Soon, other manufacturers like LeEco should follow Xiaomi in releasing a Snapdragon 821 powered flagship in the market.

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