Qualcomm revealed its new Snapdragon 821 which is another chip for the high end, although it comes to redefine what the Snapdragon 820 is, a CPU that we have seen in a number of high-end smartphones offering the best graphics and data processing power and calculations. The 821 is a chip that comes to fill the gap between the 820 and the next flagship that would be the Snapdragon 830.
Now Qualcomm details some of the best features of the Snapdragon 821 to improve certain features such as a better overall performance, improvements in startup times and in loading apps with 10 percent faster. If Qualcomm has taken the effort to launch the 821 it is for some obvious reason and those improvements in general have their reason so that we can talk about this CPU today.
These optimizations in the Snapdragon 821 also lead to an improvement in performance when browsing the internet as well as a smoother scrolling. The performance of the Adreno GPU improves by 5 percent, which will help games and virtual reality behave better. And best of all, all that increase in performance does not lead to higher battery consumption, but vice versa, it lasts up to 5 percent longer.
Devices using this chip will be Daydream compatible, Google's VR, as is the case with the Snapdragon 820. But it is in this case that Qualcomm will launch an SDK for this chip that offers superior audio and video quality and virtual reality of higher performance and quality.
Besides, it also offers support to Dual PDAF for faster focusing and improved laser focus accuracy compared to the Snapdragon 820. The first smartphone to receive this chip is the ASUS ZenFone 3 Deluxe, which has both PDAF and laser, which will lead you to focus in 0,03 seconds.