Snapdragon 821 Mobile Platform
Snapdragon 821 Mobile Platform
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As one of the most cutting-edge mobile processors ever created, the Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 821 mobile platform with X12 LTE builds on the momentum of our Snapdragon 820 mobile platform. It is designed to support superior connectivity, graphics, photography, power and battery efficiency and helps set a new bar for smartphones, tablets, mobile virtual reality (VR) head-mounted displays and more.

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Benefits
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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.

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Immersive visual graphics

The Qualcomm® Adreno™ 530 GPU offers 40% improvement to graphics performance, compute capabilities, and power usage when compared to Adreno 430—giving the Snapdragon 821 processor a 5% performance bump over the 820 processor.

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Spectra Camera ISP

14-bit Qualcomm Spectra™ Image Signal Processor (ISP) supports the capture of up to 28 megapixels with zero shutter lag.

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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 up to 4x faster than conventional charging and 38% more efficient than Quick Charge 2.0.

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Powerful Kryo CPU

The new Qualcomm® Kryo™ CPU has 2x performance and efficiency when compared to the CPU of the Snapdragon 810 mobile platform. The Snapdragon 821 goes even further with up to 10% performance increase over the 820 mobile platform.

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Efficient Hexagon 680 DSP

The new Qualcomm® Hexagon™ 680 DSP is also designed to bring significant improvement to performance and battery life.

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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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Qualcomm® Hexagon™ 680 DSP includes Hexagon Vector eXtensions (HVX) and Sensor Core with Low Power Island for always-on sensor processing
  • 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 2.4 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
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Qualcomm Kryo, Qualcomm Hexagon, Qualcomm Adreno, Qualcomm Spectra, Qualcomm Clear Sight, Qualcomm Symphony System Manager, Qualcomm All-Ways Aware, Qualcomm Quick Charge, Qualcomm VIVE, Qualcomm IZat, Qualcomm RF360, Qualcomm WiPower, Qualcomm Mobile Security, Qualcomm SafeSwitch, Qualcomm SecureMSM, Qualcomm Snapdragon Sense ID, Qualcomm Snapdragon Smart Protect, and Qualcomm Snapdragon StudioAccess are products of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

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Product

CPU

Clock Speed

Cellular Modem-RF

Modem Name

Camera

Image Signal Processor (ISP) Name

Charging

Qualcomm® Quick Charge™ technology support

Process Node and Technology

Process Node

Other

Snapdragon 855+/860 Mobile Platform

Up to 2.96 GHz

Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ X24 LTE modem
Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ X50 Modem-RF System
Qualcomm® QTM052 5G mmWave antenna module

Qualcomm® Spectra™ 380

Qualcomm® Quick Charge™ 4+ technology

7 nm

Snapdragon 845 Mobile Platform

Up to 2.8 GHz

Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ X20 LTE modem

Qualcomm® Spectra™ 280

Qualcomm® Quick Charge™ 4 technology

10 nm1

Snapdragon 820 Mobile Platform

Up to 2.2 GHz

Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ X12 LTE modem

Qualcomm® Spectra™

Qualcomm® Quick Charge™ 3.0 technology

14 nm

Snapdragon 835 Mobile Platform

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—

—

—

Snapdragon 821 Mobile Platform

Up to 2.4 GHz

Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ X12 LTE modem

Qualcomm® Spectra™

Qualcomm® Quick Charge™ 3.0 technology

14 nm

  1. 2nd generation
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