Qualcomm
CPUSmartphoneReleased Oct 18, 2016

Qualcomm Snapdragon 427

4C/4T · 1.4 GHz

The Snapdragon 427 (MSM8920) was announced on October 18, 2016 as an upgrade of the Snapdragon 425 for budget smartphones. It keeps the four Cortex-A53 cores at up to 1.4 GHz and the Adreno 308 GPU, but moves to the Snapdragon X9 LTE modem with Cat 7 downloads of up to 300 Mbps and Cat 13 uploads, and adds Quick Charge 3.0.

General

Manufacturer
Qualcomm
Model
Qualcomm Snapdragon 427
Segment
Smartphone
Generation
Snapdragon 4xx
Codename
—
Architecture
ARM64
Microarchitecture
4× Cortex-A53
Release date
Oct 18, 2016

Cores & clocks

Cores / threads
4 cores / 4 threads
Base clock
—
Boost clock
1.40 GHz
TDP (design W)
—
Unlocked
✕ No
L2 cache
—
L3 cache
—
Technology (nm)
28 nm
TSMC 28LP

Platform

Socket
—
2-CPU (multi-socket)
✕ No
Integrated GPU
Adreno 308
Clock: 598 MHz
Memory type
LPDDR3 (672 MHz)
1-channel
Memory size
—
ECC memory
—
PCIe
—

Instructions & AI

Instruction extensions
—
NPU
None

OS support

Notes
Android smartphone platform. Qualcomm ships it with Android and provides no Windows, ChromeOS or desktop Linux support.
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