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title: "SDA845"
url: "https://www.qualcomm.com/internet-of-things/products/q8-series/sda845"
description: "Powerful, AI-enabled, 10 nm single board computer application processor based on Snapdragon 845 chipset. Specs, features, and dev kit options."
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# SDA845

The Qualcomm® SDA845 SoC combines high-performance heterogeneous computing, Qualcomm® Artificial Intelligence (AI) Engine for on-device machine learning, computer vision, hardware-based security, multimedia, and Wi-Fi.

A System-on-Chip (SoC) designed using next generation mobile technology with tech savvy consumers in mind.

SDA845 utilizes heterogenous compute capabilities to enable immersive multimedia experiences including eXtended reality (XR), on-device artificial intelligence (AI) and lightning-fast connectivity. The SDA845 also introduces a hardware isolated subsystem called the secure processing unit (SPU), which is designed to add vault-like characteristics to existing layers of Qualcomm Technologies' security features.

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Qualcomm SDM845, Qualcomm SDA845, Qualcomm AI Engine, Qualcomm Adreno, Qualcomm Kryo, Qualcomm Universal Bandwidth Compression, Qualcomm Spectra, Qualcomm Hexagon, Qualocmm Aqstic, Qualcomm aptX, Qualcomm WCN3990, Qualcomm QCA6335, Qualcomm QCA6310 and Qualcomm Snapdragon are products of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries.

[Product license agreement](https://www.qualcomm.com/content/dam/qcomm-martech/dm-assets/documents/sdm-sda845-product_brief_87-pu778-1.pdf)

**Featured Documents**

[Product Brief](https://www.qualcomm.com/content/dam/qcomm-martech/dm-assets/documents/sdm-sda845-product_brief_87-pu778-1.pdf)

## Benefits

### On-device intelligence powered by the Qualcomm AI Engine

The Qualcomm AI Engine is on-device intelligence that delivers mobile-optimized computer vision (CV) experiences for wide-array of use cases.

### Power efficient and cost-effective

The Qualcomm® Kryo™ 385 CPU is manufactured in 2nd gen 10nm LPP, optimized across four performance and four efficiency cores for higher performance. The custom built 64-bit Kryo CPU has independent efficiency and power clusters, each designed to optimize for a unique user experience.

### Captures cinema grade videos

The SDM845/SDA845 is built with new camera and graphics architectures that are designed to allow capture of videos in cinema-grade quality and have access to a billion shades of colors and features with 64x more color information via Ultra HD premium video capture.

### SDA845 Block Diagram

![](https://www.qualcomm.com/content/dam/qcomm-martech/dm-assets/images/pdp/block_diagram/image/sda845_outline_block-diagram.svg)

## Features

- Customized 64-bit octacore Kryo 385 applications processor
- Always-on subsystem with RPMh for hardware-based resource and power management
- Qualcomm® Universal Bandwidth Compression (UBWC) 2.0, 2x compression with camera, display, and DSP
- Two 4-lane DSI D-PHY 1.2 at 2.5 Gbps per lane
- 3840 × 2400 display at 60 fps, 2560 buffer width (10 layers blending), and VESA DSC 1.1
- A complete 4K60 entertainment system 4K60 10b encode + 4K60 10b decode
- Qualcomm® Spectra™ 280 camera: dual 14-bit image signal processing (ISP) + Lite ISP: 16 + 16 + 2 megapixels (MP) to support 32 MP/30 fps
- Three 4-lane CSI with C-PHY/D-PHY and one 2-lane CSI with D-PHY to support 4 + 4 + 4 + 2
- 1x UFS 2.1, 2x USB 3.1, DisplayPort
- One 1-lane PCIe Gen 2 and one 1-lane PCIe Gen 3
- WLAN 802.11ac and Bluetooth 5.0 with the Qualcomm® WCN3990 device; WiGig (802.11ad/60 GHz) with the Qualcomm® QCA6335 + Qualcomm® QCA6310 device
- Audio DSP for low-power audio subsystem (LPASS)
- Compute DSP with Qualcomm® Hexagon™ Vector eXtensions (HVX)
- Dedicated low-power Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ sensor core with DSP to support always-on use cases
- Secure processor

### Specifications

**CPU**
- Name: 8x Qualcomm® Kryo™ 385
- Clock Speed: Up to 2.8 GHz

**GPU**
- Name: Qualcomm® Adreno™ 630
- APIs: OpenCL™ 2.0

**DSP**
- Name: Qualcomm® Hexagon™ 685
- Qualcomm® Hexagon™ Processor Features: Qualcomm® Hexagon™ Vector eXtensions (HVX)

**Location**
- Satellite Systems: QZSS, GLONASS, Beidou, GPS, SBAS, Galileo

**Wi-Fi**
- Generation: Wi-Fi 5
- Standards: 802.11ac
- Spectral Bands: 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz
- Maximum Band Configuration: Tri-band
- Features: MU-MIMO

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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 | Display Number of Concurrent Displays | Interfaces Supported Interfaces | Memory Speed | Memory Type | Longevity Program Longevity Period | Process Node and Technology Process Node |
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| [SDA660](https://www.qualcomm.com/processors/application-processors/products/sda660) | Buy Now | 8x Qualcomm® Kryo™ 260 | — | Up to 2.2 GHz | Qualcomm® Adreno™ 630 | Qualcomm® Hexagon™<br>Qualcomm® Hexagon™ 680 (Show More) | Wi-Fi 4<br>Wi-Fi 5 | 802.11ac<br>802.11a<br>802.11b<br>802.11n (Show More) | 2x2 | Bluetooth® 5.0 | — | USB 3.1 | 1866 MHz | LPDDR4x | 10 year(s) | 4 nm |
| [APQ8016E](https://www.qualcomm.com/processors/application-processors/products/apq8016e) | Buy Now | — | 4 | Up to 1.2 GHz | Qualcomm® Adreno™ 306 | Qualcomm® Hexagon™ QDSP6 V5 | Wi-Fi 4 | 802.11a<br>802.11b<br>802.11g<br>802.11n (Show More) | — | Bluetooth® 4.1 | — | HSIC<br>LVDS<br>HDMI<br>USB 2.0<br>MIPI-CSI<br>MIPI-DSI<br>SDIO (Show More) | 533 MHz | LPDDR3<br>LPDDR2 | — | — |
| [APQ8096SG](https://www.qualcomm.com/processors/application-processors/products/apq8096sg) | — | Qualcomm® Kryo™¹ | 4 | Up to 2.34 GHz | Qualcomm® Adreno™ 530 | Qualcomm® Hexagon™ | Wi-Fi 5 | 802.11ac | 2x2 | Bluetooth® 4.2 | Up to 3² | USB 2.0<br>PCIe 2.0<br>SLIMBus<br>MIPI-DSI<br>TSIF<br>I²S<br>USB 3.0<br>MIPI-CSI (Show More) | 1866 MHz | LPDDR4 | — | 14 nm |
| [SDA845](https://www.qualcomm.com/internet-of-things/products/q8-series/sda845) (Active) | Buy Now | 8x Qualcomm® Kryo™ 385 | — | Up to 2.8 GHz | Qualcomm® Adreno™ 630 | Qualcomm® Hexagon™ 685 | Wi-Fi 5 | 802.11ac | — | Bluetooth® 5.0 | — | — | 1866 MHz | LPDDR4x | — | — |

1. Gold Cluster = 2x high-performance Kryo cores up to 2.15GHz, Silver Cluster = 2x low power Kryo cores up to 1.593GHz
2. Two panels, plus external