Ever since the official announcement of the Sony Xperia Z2, the company’s latest flagship smartphone, there’s been some debate about exactly which chipset the phone would utilize. Up until the unveiling, most benchmarks and leaks pointed towards a Snapdragon 800 processor, specifically the Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8974-AB. These results lined up perfectly with benchmark results that pointed towards a 2.36GHz quad-core processor. That is, until shortly after, the Qualcomm  Snapdragon 801 with the MSM8974-AC chipset was announced.

The Qualcomm MSM8974-AC chipset for the most part is quite similar to the MSM8974-AB, offering a quad-core processor. The difference lies in the max clock speed between the two chipsets with the AC ranking at 2.5GHz while the AB offers 2.36GHz. In edition to a faster max clock speed, the AC chipset also offers a 578MHz GPU versus the 550MHz GPU of the AB chipset. So where does that put the Sony Xperia Z2? Despite an initial typo on their white sheet, Sony has confirmed that their latest flagship utilizes the MSM8974-AB chipset, placing it in line with previous leaks of a 2.36GHz quad-core processor.

Mystery solved! For those fretting about the slightly slower clock speed of the Xperia Z2, fear not as Sony has already announced that they will follow up their latest flagship with a new model in 6 months time.

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[Via Xperia Blog]