Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 is a clock-bumped chip for fall’s flagships

Speed bump is exactly as impressive as the model number conveys.

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What is the voltage increase? Like, is this just simple binning that took Qualcomm a weekend (a la i5-6600K / i7-6700k)?

Sounds like a slight hit for battery life.

 

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ikjadoon[/url]":3if0ugji]What is the voltage increase? Like, is this just simple binning that took Qualcomm a weekend (a la i5-6600K / i7-6700k)?

Sounds like a slight hit for battery life.

The tiny extra energy that it may use is more than made up by getting back into idle mode. The extra time in idle mode more than makes up for the minute amount of energy used clocking higher.

Says who? You have data to back that up? I have data that says quite the opposite for laptop CPUs: the voltage (and power output scales quadratically with voltage) bump consumes more power than you get back in slightly longer idle. Please see here:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7113/2013 ... i7-4650u/3

See this page and the next. Voltage bumps look like they steal much more power than you get back by "finishing" the task early. Who said it was "minute" power? I'm not sure where you're getting all these conclusions from. If you have data, I'd love to see it.