Qualcomm
CPUSmartphoneReleased Jul 11, 2016

Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

4C/4T · 2.1 GHz

The Snapdragon 821 was announced on July 11, 2016 as an upgraded version of the Snapdragon 820, offering higher performance, about 5% lower power consumption and new camera features such as dual photodiode and hybrid laser autofocus. This entry covers the standard MSM8996 Pro-AB, whose Kryo cores run at up to 2.15 GHz and 1.59 GHz with a 624 MHz Adreno 530 GPU, as used in Google's first Pixel phones. It keeps the Hexagon 680 DSP, Snapdragon X12 LTE modem, Bluetooth 4.1 and Quick Charge 3.0. The faster MSM8996 Pro-AC runs at up to 2.34 GHz.

General

Manufacturer
Qualcomm
Model
Qualcomm Snapdragon 821
Segment
Smartphone
Generation
Snapdragon 8xx
Codename
—
Architecture
ARM64
Microarchitecture
4× Kryo (2+2)
Release date
Jul 11, 2016
Price
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Cores & clocks

Cores / threads
4 cores / 4 threadsP2+E2
Base clock
—
Boost clock
2.15 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 530
Clock: 624 MHz
Memory type
LPDDR4 (1866 MHz)
4-channel
Memory size
—
ECC memory
—
PCIe
—

Instructions & AI

Instruction extensions
Armv8-A
NPU
Hexagon 680 DSP

OS support

Notes
Android smartphone platform. Qualcomm ships it with Android and provides no Windows, ChromeOS or desktop Linux support; mainstream Linux distributions publish no official image for this SoC.

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