Yesterday, Dragon 821 just released《 Go to the battle after exceeding one frequency? Snapdragon 821 quietly released 》Today, the device carrying Snapdragon 821 is officially released from the GeekBench database, and more importantly, it belongs to Xiaomi.
The computer code is "Capricorn" (Capricorn), and the processor code is still the MSM8996 of Snapdragon 820, but the core frequency detected is 2.0GHz. Because GeekBench records the data of low-frequency small cores, that is to say, the frequency of the MSM8996 small core is up to 2GHz, while the small core of Snapdragon 820 seen now is only 1.6GHz.
The Snapdragon 821 is basically the "overclocking" version of the Snapdragon 820. The small core frequency that was not announced when it was released last night has just been added from GeekBench. Its large and small core Kryo has been increased to 2.0 GHz and 2.4 GHz respectively, and the GPU frequency has also been increased to 650 MHz. The X12 LTE modem baseband, which supports up to 600Mbps downlink, has also been directly used.
The Snapdragon 820 has a "low frequency" due to the small number of CPU cores, which is obviously inferior to the Kirin 950 and 8890 in the same period. However, the Snapdragon 821 is already the flagship SoC with the highest frequency of small cores in history, and the performance of Kryo architecture itself is above A53. As a comparison, Kirin 950 is the A72 of 4 * 1.8 A53+4 * 2.3, and Exynos8890 is the A72 of 4 * 1.6 A53+4 * 2.3. For small applications with small core number requirements, Snapdragon 821 is expected to significantly refresh the speed record.
Considering that the power consumption of Snapdragon 820 is already very high, the "overclocking" strategy of Snapdragon 801 to 805 is still adopted by Snapdragon 821, which is likely to cause similar high scores and low energy. However, it is estimated that the increase in the frequency of small cores, which is more significant for daily use, is the most practical. Of course, on the premise of not being affected by the heating of large cores and GPUs.
