As one of the most cutting-edge mobile processors ever created, the Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 820 processor 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.
Snapdragon 820 Processor Specs
Cellular Modem
Modem Name
Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ X12 LTE modem
LTE Category
LTE Category 13 (uplink)
LTE Category 12 (downlink)
Downlink Features
3x20 MHz carrier aggregation
Up to 256-QAM
Uplink Features
Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ Upload+
2x20 MHz carrier aggregation
Up to 64-QAM
Peak Download Speed
600 Mbps
Peak Upload Speed
150 Mbps
Supported Cellular Technologies
LTE FDD
LTE TDD
LTE-U
LWA
LTE Broadcast
WCDMA (DB-DC-HSDPA, DC-HSUPA)
TD-SCDMA
CDMA 1x
EV-DO
GSM/EDGE
Multi SIM
LTE Dual SIM Dual Standby (DSDS)
Next-generation Calling Services
Voice over Wi-Fi (VoWiFi) with LTE call continuity
HD Voice over 3G and VoLTE
Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi Standards
802.11ad
802.11ac Wave 2
802.11n
802.11a/b/g
Wi-Fi Spectral Bands
2.4 GHz
5 GHz
60 GHz
Peak Speed
867 Mbps
Channel Utilization
20/40/80 MHz
MIMO Configuration
2x2 (2-stream)
Peak QAM
256 QAM
Wi-Fi Features
MU-MIMO
Multi-gigabit Wi-Fi
Bluetooth
Bluetooth Version
Bluetooth 4.1
Location
Satellite Systems Support
GPS
GLONASS
Beidou
Galileo
Global Emergency Services Support
Assisted GPS
OTDOA (LTE-based positioning)
Advanced Location Features
Low Power Geofencing and Tracking
Sensor-assisted Navigation
Pedestrian Navigation
NFC
Near Field Communications
Supported
RF
RFFE
Qualcomm® RF360™ front-end solution
USB
USB Version
USB 3.0
USB 2.0
Camera
Megapixel Support
Up to 28 MP camera
Image Sensor Processor
Qualcomm Spectra™ image sensor processor
2x Image Sensor Processor (ISP)
14-bit
Qualcomm® Clear Sight™ camera features
Video
Video Capture
Up to 4K Ultra HD video capture @ 30FPS
Video Playback
Up to 4K Ultra HD video playback
Codec Support
H.264 (AVC)
H.265 (HEVC)
Display
Maximum On-Device Display Support
4K Ultra HD
3840x2160
Maximum External Display Support
Up to 4K
Audio
Audio Technology
Qualcomm Aqstic™ audio technology
Qualcomm Aqstic™ audio codec playback support
Dynamic range: 130dB
THD+N: -109dB
PCM up to 192kHz/24bit
Dual oscillator support (44.1kHz/48kHz)
Qualcomm Aqstic™ power consumption
Playback: 26mW for high performance mode, 6.6mW for low power mode
Low power voice activation: 0.65mA
Qualcomm Aqstic™ audio codec recording support
Dynamic range: 109dB
THD+N: -103dB
Sampling: Up to 192kHz/24bit
Qualcomm Aqstic™ speaker amplifier output power
Up to 4W output power
Speaker Protection
CPU
CPU Clock Speed
Up to 2.2 GHz
CPU Cores
Quad-core CPU
4x Qualcomm® Kryo™ CPU
CPU Bit Architecture
64-bit
DSP
DSP Technology
Qualcomm® Hexagon™ 680 DSP
Qualcomm All-Ways Aware™ technology
Process
Process Technology
14 nm
GPU
GPU Name
Qualcomm® Adreno™ 530 GPU
API Support
OpenGL ES 3.2
OpenCL 2.0 full
Vulkan 1.0
DX11.2
Charging
Qualcomm® Quick Charge™ Support
Qualcomm® Quick Charge™ 3.0 technology
Qualcomm® WiPower™ Support
Qualcomm® WiPower™ wireless charging
Security Support
Security Features
Qualcomm® Content Protection
Qualcomm® Device Lock Authentication
Qualcomm® Fingerprint Sensors
Qualcomm® Mobile Security
Qualcomm® Processor Security
Malware Protection
Memory
Memory Speed
1866MHz
Memory Type
Dual-Channel
LPDDR4
Storage
UFS
UFS 2.0
SD
SD 3.0 (UHS-I)
eMMC
eMMC 5.1
As one of the most cutting-edge mobile processors ever created, the Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 820 processor 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.
Snapdragon 820 Processor Specs
Cellular Modem
Modem Name
- Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ X12 LTE modem
LTE Category
- LTE Category 13 (uplink)
- LTE Category 12 (downlink)
Downlink Features
- 3x20 MHz carrier aggregation
- Up to 256-QAM
Uplink Features
- Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ Upload+
- 2x20 MHz carrier aggregation
- Up to 64-QAM
Peak Download Speed
Peak Upload Speed
Supported Cellular Technologies
- LTE FDD
- LTE TDD
- LTE-U
- LWA
- LTE Broadcast
- WCDMA (DB-DC-HSDPA, DC-HSUPA)
- TD-SCDMA
- CDMA 1x
- EV-DO
- GSM/EDGE
Multi SIM
- LTE Dual SIM Dual Standby (DSDS)
Next-generation Calling Services
- Voice over Wi-Fi (VoWiFi) with LTE call continuity
- HD Voice over 3G and VoLTE
Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi Standards
- 802.11ad
- 802.11ac Wave 2
- 802.11n
- 802.11a/b/g
Wi-Fi Spectral Bands
Peak Speed
Channel Utilization
MIMO Configuration
Peak QAM
Wi-Fi Features
- MU-MIMO
- Multi-gigabit Wi-Fi
Bluetooth
Bluetooth Version
Location
Satellite Systems Support
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
Global Emergency Services Support
- Assisted GPS
- OTDOA (LTE-based positioning)
Advanced Location Features
- Low Power Geofencing and Tracking
- Sensor-assisted Navigation
- Pedestrian Navigation
NFC
Near Field Communications
RF
RFFE
- Qualcomm® RF360™ front-end solution
USB
USB Version
Camera
Megapixel Support
Image Sensor Processor
- Qualcomm Spectra™ image sensor processor
- 2x Image Sensor Processor (ISP)
- 14-bit
- Qualcomm® Clear Sight™ camera features
Video
Video Capture
- Up to 4K Ultra HD video capture @ 30FPS
Video Playback
- Up to 4K Ultra HD video playback
Codec Support
Display
Maximum On-Device Display Support
Maximum External Display Support
Audio
Audio Technology
- Qualcomm Aqstic™ audio technology
Qualcomm Aqstic™ audio codec playback support
- Dynamic range: 130dB
- THD+N: -109dB
- PCM up to 192kHz/24bit
- Dual oscillator support (44.1kHz/48kHz)
Qualcomm Aqstic™ power consumption
- Playback: 26mW for high performance mode, 6.6mW for low power mode
- Low power voice activation: 0.65mA
Qualcomm Aqstic™ audio codec recording support
- Dynamic range: 109dB
- THD+N: -103dB
- Sampling: Up to 192kHz/24bit
Qualcomm Aqstic™ speaker amplifier output power
- Up to 4W output power
- Speaker Protection
CPU
CPU Clock Speed
CPU Cores
- Quad-core CPU
- 4x Qualcomm® Kryo™ CPU
CPU Bit Architecture
DSP
DSP Technology
- Qualcomm® Hexagon™ 680 DSP
- Qualcomm All-Ways Aware™ technology
Process
Process Technology
GPU
GPU Name
- Qualcomm® Adreno™ 530 GPU
API Support
- OpenGL ES 3.2
- OpenCL 2.0 full
- Vulkan 1.0
- DX11.2
Charging
Qualcomm® Quick Charge™ Support
- Qualcomm® Quick Charge™ 3.0 technology
Qualcomm® WiPower™ Support
- Qualcomm® WiPower™ wireless charging
Security Support
Security Features
- Qualcomm® Content Protection
- Qualcomm® Device Lock Authentication
- Qualcomm® Fingerprint Sensors
- Qualcomm® Mobile Security
- Qualcomm® Processor Security
- Malware Protection
Memory
Memory Speed
Memory Type
Storage
UFS
SD
eMMC