Qualcomm Dragonwing™
QCS8250
Q8

Premium processor designed to help you deliver maximum performance for compute intensive camera, video conferencing and Edge AI applications with support Wi-Fi 6 and 5G for the Internet of Things (IoT).

The Qualcomm Dragonwing™ QCS8250 System-on-Chip (SoC) brings the latest technologies in a highly integrated chipset that delivers maximum performance with exceptional features. This chip is purpose-built for enterprise and commercial IoT applications such as video collaboration, smart camera, connected healthcare, smart retail and more.

The QCS8250 offers a powerful heterogeneous computing architecture coupled with the Qualcomm® AI Engine to efficiently run complex AI and deep learning workloads and on-device edge inferencing at incredibly low power.

Qualcomm QCS8250 is a product of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries.

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Benefits
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Superior Camera Support

Powerful image signal processor (ISP) with support for up to seven cameras running concurrent AI models, or up to 24 video streaming cameras. Up to 8K video encode/decode, and up to 64 megapixel photo and video capturing for exceptional HD videos. Also support for up to three 4K displays with independent content plus intelligent zoom in and out.

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Powerful Edge AI and Video Analytics

Contains a dedicated CV hardware block and Qualcomm® Hexagon Tensor Accelerator delivering a whopping 15 TOPS of AI performance for compute intenstive IoT applications and power optimized for enterprise grade experience.

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Supports 5G and Wi-Fi 6

Supporting a broad set of wired and wireless connectivity options, including 5G mmW and Sub-6 GHz, and Bluetooth 5.1, for a variety of enterprise and commercial IoT applications. Also support for popular cloud platforms for distributed AI model use cases.

Product Longevity Program

Product Longevity Program

This product is a part of the Product Longevity Program for Qualcomm IoT Portfolio. These products are developed and engineered with product longevity and durability in mind, helping to bring stability to our customer product designs.

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Features

  • Qualcomm® Adreno™ 650 GPU with improved GPU performance and power efficiency
  • Native 8-bit integer support for efficient GPU DNN
  • Hexagon DSP with quad Hexagon Vector eXtensions (HVX) V66Q, 1.5 GHz, for machine learning, integrated DNN for advanced VA and Qualcomm® Neural Processing SDK framework
  • Qualcomm® Kryo™ 585 CPU with 4x Kryo Gold (2.85GHz) + 4x Kryo Silver (1.8 GHz) with 4MB L3 cache
  • Camera: Dual 14-bit Qualcomm Spectra™ 480 ISP support 64MP single camera capture.
  • Support for up to 24 cameras, or seven concurrent cameras
  • Superior image quality in zzHDR, video denoising, mid/low frequency denoising, lens shading correction, video super resolution
  • Supports triple 4K display
  • Video/display: Concurrent UHD encode/decode, 3X display port, MIPI-DSI
  • Unparallel video processing at up to 4K240 decode/4K120 encode, multiple video codecs
  • Computer Vision: CVP 2.0 for improved video de-noising, digital video stabilization and image correction adjustment
  • NPU (Neural Processing Unit) for performance and always-on Neural Network (NN) use cases
  • Audio: Multi-mic, source tracking, ECNS, voice activation
  • 5G modem attach with support for sub-6GHZ and mmWave
  • Support for 2x2 11ax 80MHz for faster downloads
  • Cloud server support for Qualcomm(R) AIC100
  • Support for Android OS 10
  • Long lifecycle support for hardware and software
Specifications
Qualcomm® Artificial Intelligence (AI) Engine
GPU Name
Qualcomm® Adreno™ 650, Qualcomm® Adreno™
CPU Name
Qualcomm® Kryo™
Qualcomm® Hexagon™ Processor Name
Qualcomm® Hexagon™
Qualcomm® Hexagon™ Processor Features
Qualcomm® Hexagon™ Vector eXtensions (HVX), Fused AI Accelerator architecture
Qualcomm® Sensing Hub Features
Dual-core AI processor
Tera Operations Per Second (TOPS)
15 TOPS
CPU
Name
Qualcomm® Kryo™ 585
Architecture
64-bit
Clock Speed
Up to 2.85 GHz
GPU
Name
Qualcomm® Adreno™ 650
APIs
OpenGL® ES 3.2, OpenCL™ 2.0 FP, Vulkan® 1.1
Memory
Number of Channels
4
Speed
2750 MHz
Type
LPDDR51
DSP
Name
Qualcomm® Hexagon™ V66Q
Clock Speed
1.5 GHz
Qualcomm® Hexagon™ Processor Features
Qualcomm® Hexagon™ Vector eXtensions (HVX)
  1. Quad-channel PoP high speed LPDDR5/LPDDR4x SDRAM
  2. USB-C with DisplayPort
  3. 30 fps, ZSL
  4. With DisplayPort
  5. 1x with DisplayPort
  6. Gear 4

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CPU

Name

Number of Cores

Clock Speed

GPU

Name

DSP

Name

Wi-Fi

Generation

Standards

MIMO Configuration

Bluetooth

Specification Version

Display

Number of Concurrent Displays

Interfaces

Supported Interfaces

Software Options

Operating System

Memory

Speed

Type

Longevity Program

Longevity Period

Process Node and Technology

Process Node

Qualcomm® Dragonwing™ Q4 Series

QCS4290
Active

8x Qualcomm® Kryo™ 260

8

Up to 2 GHz

Qualcomm® Adreno™ 610

Qualcomm® Hexagon™ Vector Processor

Wi-Fi 5
Wi-Fi 4
Wi-Fi 6 (ready)

802.11a
802.11b
802.11ac
802.11ax (ready)
802.11n
802.11g

8x8 (ready)
1x1

Bluetooth® 5.1

1

USB-C

Linux
Android

933 MHz
1866 MHz

LPDDR5x

7 year(s)

11 nm

Other

Qualcomm® Kryo™ 300

8

Up to 2.5 GHz

Qualcomm® Adreno™ 615

2x Qualcomm® Hexagon™ Vector Processor
Qualcomm® Hexagon™ 685

Wi-Fi 4
Wi-Fi 5

802.11a
802.11b
802.11g
802.11n
802.11ac

2x2

Bluetooth® 5.0

USB 3.1

1866 MHz

LPDDR4x

10 nm

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