--- title: "Snapdragon 820 Mobile Platform" url: "https://www.qualcomm.com/smartphones/products/8-series/snapdragon-820-mobile-platform" description: "The Snapdragon 820 Mobile Platform with X12 LTE supports excellent connectivity, graphics, photography, power and battery efficiency in smartphones." --- # Snapdragon 820 Mobile Platform ![](https://s7d1.scene7.com/is/image/dmqualcommprod/bg-snapdragon-products-desktop) [Join Snapdragon Insiders](https://www.qualcomm.com/snapdragoninsiders) Save to Workspace As one of the most cutting-edge mobile processors ever created, the Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 820 mobile platform with X12 LTE supports the ultimate in connectivity, graphics, photography, power and battery efficiency. See firsthand how we've designed the 820 from the ground up to be unlike anything else. Qualcomm Snapdragon is a product of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries. Product license agreement **Featured Documents** [Product Brief](https://www.qualcomm.com/content/dam/qcomm-martech/dm-assets/documents/snapdragon_product_brief_820_update062416.pdf) ## Benefits #### Lightning-fast LTE The Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ X12 LTE modem offers 3x faster peak upload speeds and 33% faster peak download speeds compared to those of X10 LTE. #### Immersive visual graphics The Qualcomm® Adreno™ 530 GPU offers 40% improvement to graphics performance, compute capabilities, and power usage when compared to Adreno 430. #### Spectra Camera ISP 14-bit Qualcomm Spectra™ Image Signal Processor (ISP) supports the capture of up to 28 megapixels with zero shutter lag. #### Powerful Kryo CPU As our first custom-designed 64-bit quad-core CPU, the Kryo CPU uses Qualcomm® Symphony System Manager as an intelligent resource management tool for Snapdragon that extends control of task scheduling and power management across the entire processor. #### Efficient Hexagon 680 DSP Significant improvement to the Qualcomm® Hexagon™ 680 DSP enables the CPU to offload many tasks for more efficient processing. Featuring Qualcomm All-Ways Aware™ technology, the Hexagon 680 DSP also allows for ultra-low power "always-on" sensors and advanced low power-image processing. #### Less time charging With Qualcomm® Quick Charge™ 3.0, users can spend less time charging and more time doing. As our fastest and most efficient charging technology yet, Quick Charge 3.0 is 4x faster than conventional charging and 38% more efficient than Quick Charge 2.0. ### You deserve to be a Snapdragon Insider. Snapdragon Insiders will get behind-the-scenes access, premium experiences and extra perks that only the Snapdragon Insiders program can deliver. Join our community to get the inside track and help us shape the future of Snapdragon. [Become a Snapdragon Insider](https://assets.qualcomm.com/snapdragon-insiders-sign-up-lp.html) ![](https://s7d1.scene7.com/is/image/dmqualcommprod/snapdragon-insiders-badge?$QC_Responsive$&fmt=png-alpha) ## Features - X12 LTE: Industry leading connectivity with LTE download speeds of up to 600 Mbps, multi-gigabit 802.11ad, and 2x2 802.11ac Wi-Fi - New Qualcomm® Kryo™ CPU: Delivering maximum performance and low power consumption, Kryo is QTI's first custom 64-bit quad-core CPU, manufactured in advanced 14nm FinFET LPP process - New Qualcomm® Adreno™ 530 GPU: Up to 40% better graphics and compute performance for improved visual fidelity while reducing power consumption - Qualcomm Spectra™ 14-bit dual image signal processors (ISPs) deliver high resolution DSLR-quality images using heterogeneous compute for advanced processing and additional power savings - New Qualcomm® Hexagon™ 680 DSP includes Hexagon Vector eXtensions (HVX) and Sensor Core with Low Power Island for always-on sensor processing - New Touch-To-Track: Recognize and track multiple objects on screen using advanced computer vision ### Specifications **Location** - Location Support: Qualcomm® Location - Satellite Systems: GLONASS, Beidou, GPS, Galileo - Location and Global Emergency Services: LTE Observed Time Difference of Arrival (OTDOA), Assisted GPS - Features: Pedestrian Navigation, Sensor-assisted Navigation, Low Power Geofencing and Tracking **NFC** - Near Field Communications: Supported **CPU** - Name: Qualcomm® Kryo™ - Architecture: 64-bit - Clock Speed: Up to 2.2 GHz **DSP** - Name: Qualcomm® Hexagon™ 680 - Features: Qualcomm All-Ways Aware™ technology **GPU** - Name: Qualcomm® Adreno™ 530 - APIs: OpenGL® ES 3.2, DirectX® 11.2, OpenCL™ 2.0 Full, Vulkan® 1.0 1. 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