Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 may give Apple’s A9 chipset a run for its money

With its successor Snapdragon 810 being criticized for its various flaws, Android users have high expectations from Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820 SoC. As has been the tradition, the final quarter of each year is when a new hot chipset is announced.

A lot has been talked about the new chipset, including the information that the new SoC will compromise of new Kyro cores. However, more has been made known about the chipset recently. According to a post by a micro-blogger on the Chinese website Weibo, the Snapdragon 820 may be able to outpower the, currently leading, Apple A9 chipset. Accompanied by Adrena 530 GPU, he claims, the Snapdragon 820 will be about 10 per cent faster than A9.

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