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Qualcomm's New Snapdragon 821 Is 10 Percent Faster Than the 820 (theverge.com)

Posted by msmash on from the affinity-for-efficiency dept.

An anonymous reader shares a report on The Verge: Qualcomm has announced a new flagship mobile processor called the Snapdragon 821. The 821 is a slight update to the Snapdragon 820 that debuted in smartphones earlier this year and promises modest performance gains. The 820 has been found in virtually every high-end Android smartphone this year, including Samsung's Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge, the HTC 10, the LG G5, the OnePlus 3, and the Xiaomi Mi5. In our experience, we've found it to be quite a capable chip, with great performance and efficient power utilization. It's a far cry from last year's Snapdragon 810, which was plagued with performance and thermal issues. Qualcomm says the Snapdragon 821 builds upon the 820's features, but provides a 10 percent performance increase. Its quad-core CPU runs at 2.4GHz.AnandTech has more details.

30 comments

  1. But.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    have they addressed the security problem in their chips?

    1. Re:But.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      When you run an advertisement, you talk about features, not flaws. If you want a discussion about the products flaw's, then buy your own Slashvertisement. Qualcomm paid for this, so it says what they want.

    2. Re:But.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Mod parent up.

  2. Likely still slower than the Exynos 8890 by JoeyRox · · Score: 1

    The Galaxy S7 comes in two major flavors - the US version that sports the Snapdragon 820 and the international version that uses Samsung's Exynos 8890. In head-to-head tests the Snapdragon is noticeably slower with hours less of battery life (http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s7_exynos_8890_vs_snapdragon_820_speed_test-news-17429.php). Apparently Samsung was required to use the Snapdragon in the US market for its CDMA support.

    1. Re:Likely still slower than the Exynos 8890 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The link you posted doesn't seem to back up your claim, although admittedly I only read the text, I didn't watch the video. I took away that the SD820 was faster in single-core tests, the Exynos chip was faster in multi-core tests, and TocuhWiz is still buggy crap.

    2. Re:Likely still slower than the Exynos 8890 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That's strange, as my US Samsung S6 uses an exynos processor.

  3. WOW by ArchieBunker · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Such amazing news! A new processor is slightly faster than the previous model!

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    1. Re:WOW by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      They need to give the process a catchy name like "tick tock" or something. That will make it sound better than it is. Then they can repeatedly whore out small, incremental improvements like it's the second coming or something.

    2. Re:WOW by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If your 5 inch dick grows by 10%, you're still not getting laid.

    3. Re:WOW by lbmouse · · Score: 1

      Plus it is one (1) higher. Don't forget that!

    4. Re:WOW by Megol · · Score: 1

      Hint: if one can't get laid with 5" it isn't the hardware that fails - it's the software (= personality, appearance).

    5. Re:WOW by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You misspelled wallet.

    6. Re:WOW by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Another internet loser who thinks his failure is financial rather than personal.

      There are a lot of poor and working class married men. Money doesn't explain much, if anything.

    7. Re: WOW by Type44Q · · Score: 1

      Have you seen the hot trophy wives they're married to?? Neither have I. :p

    8. Re:WOW by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      In an alternate universe, ArchieBunker wrote: Slashdot is such crap! They didn't even tell me news about a new processor being released.

    9. Re:WOW by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 1

      It's not the hardware because it should still fit into 5,25". Now 5,5" could be a problem.

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    10. Re: WOW by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Mod parent up. The poor working class men who are married are either hitched with their highschool sweetheart or they married a woman who felt it was time to 'settle and get it over with'.

      Captcha: settle (seriously)

    11. Re: WOW by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      To add to what I already said: At least around where I live (Toronto, Canada) that's how it works. Maybe in a much poorer city in a different province it's different but here, unless you're rolling in it or you marry really really young, all you have to pick from are left overs (not in a good way).

    12. Re:WOW by Megol · · Score: 1

      No I did not. Women in general doesn't fixate on looks, money nor length of the 2nd-head neck. Just try to be a nice guy instead - not the complainer kind of "nice" which in general is being clingy, strongly dependent etc., most women doesn't want to act as a mother to a grown man. Also women aren't stupid, hiding a misogynistic personality with a "niceness" veneer just doesn't work.

    13. Re: WOW by Megol · · Score: 1

      If you want to hook up with beauty fixated shallow women maybe you should put some effort in your own appearance?

      Most complainers about not getting women doesn't even have a proper hygiene...

      *sigh*

  4. So... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    New CPU is a tad faster than the previous one. Wow! I'm floored.

  5. Oh No! by PmanAce · · Score: 1

    It took me 10% more time to type this, what am I ever going to do!!!

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  6. Tufnell said RADIO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    and it was Reiner who had to correct him with "a wireless". Then Tufnell went all babbly-mouth because he knew he blew it. At least he lays that bitch from Halloween, whatshername. Tony Curtis's and Janet Leigh's kid who was in that Trading Places movie. Kevin Bacon is in there somewhere.

  7. Yawn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    In the computer industry, a 10 percent gain is not detectable by the vast majority of users.

    Find some real news.

  8. How much are current processors taxed? by iampiti · · Score: 1

    Do they get pushed to their limits by the latest apps?
    I guess most apps don't push the CPUs very hard with the probable exception of games. I guess VR will eat all the power it can get

    1. Re:How much are current processors taxed? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I say this as a longtime user of Android but, it isn't the apps per se that seem to push the processor so much but the OS itself. Specifically scrolling. The only non-Android mobile device I own is an iPad Mini 2 and despite having significantly inferior paper specs to my rooted overclocked Nexus 7 2013 and my LG G4, the user interface walks all over the 2 latter devices in the very important metric of being essentially lag free. No, it isn't completely lag free but compared to the Android devices, it might as well be. I didn't fully appreciate this fact until I got the iOS device ($120 on feeBay so why not) but once you see it, you can't unsee it. I'm thinking about upgrading the N7 to a second gen Nvidia Shield. Maybe that'll solve the issue but I'm not optimistic as I've compared this iPad to a Galaxy S7 phone in the store and the S7 despite having the SD 820 proc was still ever so subtly laggy.

  9. It should be named 902, not 821 by LordHighExecutioner · · Score: 1

    It is 10% faster, not just a mere 0.012%.

    1. Re:It should be named 902, not 821 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      1 / 820 is 0.12% not 0.012%. Study harder, kid

  10. Really, who cares? by jenningsthecat · · Score: 2

    Anyone for whom this news is important, interesting, or titillating is probably in the loop already. Everyone else probably lost interest at "10%". I find it hard to believe this submission was modded up by enough Slashdot members to have made the cut, unless "slownewsday" now counts as an upvote instead of a downvote.

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