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title: "QCS8250"
url: "https://www.qualcomm.com/internet-of-things/products/q8-series/qcs8250"
description: "The QCS8250 5G processor offers advanced features such as Wi-Fi 6 and AI-enabled capabilities, making it the perfect choice for camera and video conferencing solutions."
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# QCS8250

Qualcomm Dragonwing™

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[Introduction](https://www.qualcomm.com/internet-of-things/products/q8-series/qcs8250/#overview)

[Benefits](https://www.qualcomm.com/internet-of-things/products/q8-series/qcs8250/#benefits)

[Product Longevity Program](https://www.qualcomm.com/internet-of-things/products/q8-series/qcs8250/#productlongevityprogram)

[Features / Specs](https://www.qualcomm.com/internet-of-things/products/q8-series/qcs8250/#specs)

[Product Comparison](https://www.qualcomm.com/internet-of-things/products/q8-series/qcs8250/#comparison)

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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.

[Product license agreement](https://www.qualcomm.com/internet-of-things/products/q8-series/qcs8250)

**Featured Documents**

[Product Brief](https://www.qualcomm.com/content/dam/qcomm-martech/dm-assets/documents/qcs8250-soc-product-brief_87-pu792-1-c.pdf)

## Benefits

#### 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.

#### 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.

#### 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.

[Learn more about the program](https://www.qualcomm.com/products/product-longevity-program)

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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

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| 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

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | Qualcomm® Kryo™ 585 |
| Architecture | 64-bit |
| Clock Speed | Up to 2.85 GHz |

#### GPU

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | Qualcomm® Adreno™ 650 |
| APIs | OpenGL® ES 3.2, OpenCL™ 2.0 FP, Vulkan® 1.1 |

#### Memory

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Number of Channels | 4 |
| Speed | 2750 MHz |
| Type | LPDDR5[1](https://www.qualcomm.com/internet-of-things/products/q8-series/qcs8250/#footnote1) |

#### DSP

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| 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
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| Product | Buy Online | CPU Name | Number of Cores | Clock Speed | GPU Name | DSP Name | Wi-Fi Generation | Standards | MIMO Configuration | Bluetooth Specification Version | Memory Speed | Type | Display Number of Concurrent Displays | Interfaces Supported Interfaces | Software Options Operating System | Process Node and Technology Process Node |
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| [QCS605](https://www.qualcomm.com/processors/application-processors/products/qcs605) | Buy Now | Qualcomm® Kryo™ 300 | 8 | Up to 2.5 GHz | Qualcomm® Adreno™ 615 | 2x Qualcomm® Hexagon™ Vector Processor<br>Qualcomm® Hexagon™ 685 | Wi-Fi 4<br>Wi-Fi 5 | 802.11a<br>802.11b<br>802.11g<br>802.11n<br>802.11ac | 2x2 | Bluetooth® 5.0 | 1866 MHz | LPDDR4x | — | USB 3.1 | — | 10 nm |