Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 will be up to twice as powerful and energy efficient as its predecessor

03 September, 2015
In a dedicated blog post, Qualcomm announced that the upcoming Snapdragon 820 chipset will be up to twice as powerful and energy efficient as its predecessor, Snapdragon 810. The San Diego-based chipmaker has designed the SoC specifically with high-end, ultra-thin devices in mind.

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  • 15 Sep 2015

AnonD-352420, 03 Sep 2015Actually that's not true, all iPhones since the 4s were on ... moreyeah but the iPhone doesn't need a powerful chip since is only running less than 1 million pixels while android phones are coming out with 8 million pixels, that requires a lot more work. ios is just an closed down app launcher and android is an entire os in its own

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    Jarret, 04 Sep 2015Maybe it would burn your hand......personal ginks
    I thought the same thing !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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      • 04 Sep 2015

      Maybe it would burn your hand......

        AnonD-352420, 03 Sep 2015Actually that's not true, all iPhones since the 4s were on ... moreAn excellent point Sir!!! Salute to you for pointing this out!

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          • 03 Sep 2015

          AnonD-425519, 03 Sep 2015Yes the 801 is still better than the 808 and 810 (no idea a... more801 itself is an ancient design almost identical on Snapdragon S4 chipset (1.5ghz Dual Core Krait) that came out nearly 3 years before the Galaxy S5. Hardly the best example. The pinnacle of the Krait Series was the first in the series: 1.5ghz Dual Core set up. I still have toy devices that use this chipset that are 100% lag free after 4 years of flashing roms and heavy use.

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            • 03 Sep 2015

            Anonymous, 03 Sep 2015Euhm... are you suggesting that the SD801 is thus better th... moreYes the 801 is still better than the 808 and 810 (no idea about 820, let's wait for that) as it is more reliable. It doesn't mean that it's faster (Though my GS5 still runs games and some apps faster than my LG G4 and the M9 that I had), but it functions better with less lag/heating.

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              • 03 Sep 2015

              Harmonica, 03 Sep 2015Love it or hate it, Apple can run fast on dual core process... moreIf you know basics... Chip size is almost same and so is no of transistors.. It is just that they have not made cores of them.... So.. they are ahead in single core processing...
              And why does new ipad has 2 gb ram if 1 is enough??? And why 3 core processor ans not dual core???????

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                • 03 Sep 2015

                AnonD-364786, 03 Sep 2015In real life 4GB is not enough for samsung. I am not say... moreOh.. we got an expert basher here...
                Even new galaxy j5 does not lags...
                And it is even better than iphone 5s..

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                  • 03 Sep 2015

                  Akinaro, 03 Sep 2015no its not work like that. Especially in Android. Its no... moreYes you're kind of right. I agree that iOS optimization is great and can run without lag with just 1GB of RAM. But Android features are much more than iOS, specially when rooted.
                  iOS is a toy compared to a rooted Android.
                  Google promised RAM optimization in Android 6, hope that helps.

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                    • 03 Sep 2015

                    AnonD-364786, 03 Sep 2015In real life 4GB is not enough for samsung. I am not say... moreI think Mongoose is quad-core like Qualcomm Kryo. And then, the Qualcomm chipsets actually are in some circunstance in head to head with the Exynos chipsets? Now since this year Qualcomm lost the race to Samsung in the war of mobile chipsets. Now Samsung, if they want, they make use of their chipsets and already they don't need the Qualcomm chipsets for nothing. Remember that, Samsung has possibility of choice.

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                      • 03 Sep 2015

                      Akinaro, 03 Sep 2015no its not work like that. Especially in Android. Its no... moreActually that's not true, all iPhones since the 4s were on top if not better than all Android phones when it comes to raw GPU power to display resolution and to run apps smoothly you need strong GPUs. So its not all about optimization, sometimes it's also just raw power that let run ios smoothly ;)

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                        • 03 Sep 2015

                        lacp, 03 Sep 2015But last Samsung Mongoose custom processor showed in a benc... moreIn real life 4GB is not enough for samsung.

                        I am not saying samsung is not trying to customize.
                        They are trying and faiLing so far.

                        Anyway A series is still a dual core unlike octa core used by samsung.
                        Like i said mediatek added 2 more cores and made it 10 to beat exynos.

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                          • 03 Sep 2015

                          Harmonica, 03 Sep 2015Love it or hate it, Apple can run fast on dual core process... moreBut last Samsung Mongoose custom processor showed in a benchmark to be at the level of Apple A9X or even ahead, as in single-core as in multi-core. 1GB in iOS 8 demonstrated to be insufficient.

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                            • 03 Sep 2015

                            They should have claimed Qualcomm should claim as "We can lie twice as fast as last time did .. and efficient white lie than last year"

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                              Anonymous, 03 Sep 2015Dont believe in their LIES ! They said same about SNAPDRAGO... moreYeah, I agree

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                                • 03 Sep 2015

                                lacp, 03 Sep 2015Go play harmonica to other place. You are so upset with Sam... moreManufacturing chips is not a high profile task like deaigning.
                                Samsung did 14nm mainly because of its partnerships with Globalfoundaries.

                                IBM demonstrated 6nm process who is not even in the domain.. lol
                                And till 2010 and 11 , samsung was way behind tsmc

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                                  • 03 Sep 2015

                                  AnonD-335213, 03 Sep 2015"Their iwn SoC and chips are one generation behind oth... moreThey are ARM cortex cores , nothing more.
                                  QC was doing it for years and so do apple.

                                  Recently mediatek beat exynos by having 10 cores. lol

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                                    • 03 Sep 2015

                                    lacp, 03 Sep 2015Go play harmonica to other place. You are so upset with Sam... moreLove it or hate it, Apple can run fast on dual core processor with 1 GB RAM and Android need hexacore processor and even with 4 GB RAM, Android lags.

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                                      • 03 Sep 2015

                                      Dont believe in their LIES ! They said same about SNAPDRAGON 810 and we all know how IT ENDED !!!!!!!!!

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                                        • 03 Sep 2015

                                        AnonD-364786, 03 Sep 2015samsung not only ruined others , they end up ruining themse... moreGo play harmonica to other place. You are so upset with Samsung, why? You can't understand that Samsung today it's the biggest semicondutor manufacturer of the entire world and their products are of the best quality compared with others. TSMC it is not better. And you must be chinese or japanese or even nacionalist north american for you feel so upset and feel hatred for Samsung.