Google released a new "pro son" series of mobile phones in the early morning of October 5 Pixel and Pixel XL , the SoC they use is relatively special, officially named Snapdragon 821 （MSM8996 pro AB）， The frequency is only 2.15GHz+1.6GHz , and general Snapdragon 820 It is consistent, and its score has finally entered the Geekbench background data.

It can be seen that Pixel XL is eager for Android 7.1 system and uses a four core processor, Small core 1.59GHz , code is Marlin. Crucially, in the column of processor ID, the end part is variant 2 part 517 revision 1, that is, the step is r2p1 This is indeed a standard Snapdragon 821 Step by step. In terms of running score, as the frequency is exactly the same as that of Snapdragon 820, no improvement is expected. This is a dragon 821 dressed in 820 skin, and we can only expect various third-party cores to complete self redemption.

We observe the score information of Xiaomi 5 (Snapdragon 820). Its processor step is r1p2 , although the frequency is the same as Pixel XL 2.15GHz+1.6GHz It seems that there are some differences between them. It is estimated that the Pixel XL will be lower in the same frequency voltage.

Xiaomi 5s run score information, step by step r2p1 , which is consistent with Pixel XL, while the frequency is 2.15GHz+2.0GHz . So So far, we know that Snapdragon 821 has three frequencies, namely 2.35GHz+2.18GHz "full blood version", 2.15GHz+2.0GHz "reduced frequency version" on Xiaomi 5s and 2.15GHz+1.6GHz "beggar version" on Pixel series.