--- title: "Snapdragon 821 Mobile Platform" url: "https://www.qualcomm.com/smartphones/products/8-series/snapdragon-821-mobile-platform" description: "The Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 mobile platform with X12 LTE helped set a new bar for smartphones, tablets, mobile virtual reality (VR) head-mounted displays, and more." --- # Snapdragon 821 Mobile Platform [Join Snapdragon Insiders](https://www.qualcomm.com/snapdragoninsiders) Save to Workspace On this page [Overview](https://www.qualcomm.com/smartphones/products/8-series/snapdragon-821-mobile-platform/#overview) [Benefits](https://www.qualcomm.com/smartphones/products/8-series/snapdragon-821-mobile-platform/#benefits) [You deserve to be a Snapdragon Insider.](https://www.qualcomm.com/smartphones/products/8-series/snapdragon-821-mobile-platform/#twocolumnhdi) [Features / Specs](https://www.qualcomm.com/smartphones/products/8-series/snapdragon-821-mobile-platform/#specs) [Product Comparison](https://www.qualcomm.com/smartphones/products/8-series/snapdragon-821-mobile-platform/#comparison) [Access More](https://www.qualcomm.com/smartphones/products/8-series/snapdragon-821-mobile-platform/#accessmore) 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. 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-821-processor-product-brief.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—giving the Snapdragon 821 processor a 5% performance bump over the 820 processor. #### Spectra Camera ISP 14-bit Qualcomm Spectra™ Image Signal Processor (ISP) supports the capture of up to 28 megapixels with zero shutter lag. #### 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. #### 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. #### Efficient Hexagon 680 DSP The new Qualcomm® Hexagon™ 680 DSP is also designed to bring significant improvement to performance and battery life. ### 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 - 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 1. Via WCD9335 Show more 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. ## Compare related products. Note: to leverage the best experience for the product comparison table, please use the desktop to view content. 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