Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

CPU

Architecture

2x 2.342 GHz - Kryo2x 1.6 GHz - Kryo

CPU cores

4

Clock speed

2342 MHz

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

Process technology

14 nanometers

Transistors

2 billion

TDP

11 W

Cache and memory

L1 cache

64 KB

L2 cache

3 MB

Memory type

LPDDR4

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

Memory bus

4x 16 Bit

Maximum bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

Maximum memory

6 GB

Graphics and AI

GPU

Adreno 530

GPU architecture

Adreno 500

GPU clock

653 MHz

Execution units

2

Shaders

256

FLOPS

519 Gigaflops

Vulkan

1.0

OpenCL

2.0

DirectX

11.2

Neural processor / NPU

Hexagon 680

Display and media

Maximum display resolution

3840 x 2160

Maximum camera resolution

1x 28MP, 2x 13MP

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

4G

LTE Cat. 12

5G

No

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

Wi-Fi

5

Bluetooth

4.1

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

General

Release

August 2016

Class

Flagship

Model number

MSM8996 Pro

Storage support

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Devices in database

27