Qualcomm
CPUSmartphoneReleased Feb 11, 2016

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

8C/8T · 2.0 GHz

The Snapdragon 625 (MSM8953) was announced on February 11, 2016 as the first Snapdragon 600-series processor built on a 14 nm FinFET process. Eight Cortex-A53 cores run at up to 2.0 GHz alongside an Adreno 506 GPU, and the integrated Snapdragon X9 LTE modem supports Cat 7 downloads up to 300 Mbps and Cat 13 uploads up to 150 Mbps. It also offers dual ISPs for cameras up to 24 MP, 4K HEVC video capture and playback, Full HD displays, 802.11ac Wi-Fi with MU-MIMO, USB 3.0 and Quick Charge 3.0.

General

Manufacturer
Qualcomm
Model
Qualcomm Snapdragon 625
Segment
Smartphone
Generation
Snapdragon 6xx
Codename
—
Architecture
ARM64
Microarchitecture
8× Cortex-A53
Release date
Feb 11, 2016

Cores & clocks

Cores / threads
8 cores / 8 threads
Base clock
—
Boost clock
2.00 GHz
TDP (design W)
—
Unlocked
✕ No
L2 cache
—
L3 cache
—
Technology (nm)
14 nm
Samsung 14LPP

Platform

Socket
—
2-CPU (multi-socket)
✕ No
Integrated GPU
Adreno 506
Clock: 650 MHz
Memory type
LPDDR3 (933 MHz)
1-channel
Memory size
—
ECC memory
—
PCIe
—

Instructions & AI

Instruction extensions
—
NPU
Hexagon 546 DSP

OS support

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