Kryo


Qualcomm Kryo is a series of custom or semi-custom ARM-based CPUs included in the Snapdragon line of SoCs.
These CPUs implement the ARM 64-bit instruction set and serve as the successor to the previous 32-bit Krait CPUs. It was first introduced in the Snapdragon 820. In 2017 Qualcomm released the Snapdragon 636 and Snapdragon 660, the first mid-range Kryo SoCs. In 2018 the first entry-level SoC with Kryo architecture, the Snapdragon 632, was released.

Kryo (original)

First announced in September 2015 and used in the Snapdragon 820 SoC. The original Kryo cores can be used in both parts of the big.LITTLE configuration, where two dual-core clusters run at different clock frequency, similar to how both Cortex-A53 clusters work in the Snapdragon 615.
The Kryo in the 820/821 is an in-house custom ARMv8.0-A design and not based on an ARM Cortex design.
  • 820: 2x Kryo Performance @ 2.15 GHz + 2x Kryo Efficiency @ 1.59 GHz
  • 821: 2x Kryo Performance @ 2.34 GHz + 2x Kryo Efficiency @ 2.19 GHz
  • 32 KB L1i + 32 KB L1d cache
  • 1 MB L2 cache and 512 KB L2 cache for
  • Samsung 14 nm LPP Process
  • Performance core+L2 die size: 2.79mm2

    Kryo 200 Series

The Kryo 200 Series CPUs is not a derivative of the original Kryo microarchitecture, but rather is a semi-custom design licensed under ARM’s Built on ARM Cortex Technology license. The Kryo 200 Series CPUs is derivative of the ARM's Cortex-A73 for the Performance/Gold cluster and Cortex-A53 for the Efficiency/Silver cluster in a big.LITTLE arrangement.

Kryo 280

The Kryo 280 CPU was announced along with the Snapdragon 835 Mobile Platform in November 2016. Compared to the original Kryo the new Kryo 280 core has improved integer instructions per clock but lower floating point instructions per clock. However overall the 835 was praised by reviewers for offering significant performance and efficiency advantage compared to the 820 and Exynos 8895 largely due to improvements in CPU scheduling and DVFS systems.
  • 835: 4x Kryo 280 Performance @ 2.45 GHz + 4x Kryo 280 Efficiency @ 1.90 GHz
  • 2 MB L2 cache and 1 MB L2 cache
  • Samsung 10 nm LPE Process

    Kryo 265

The Kryo 265 CPU was announced along with the Snapdragon 680 Mobile Platform in October 2021.
  • 685: 4x Kryo 265 Gold @ 2.8GHz + 4x Kryo 265 Silver @ 1.9 GHz
  • 680: 4x Kryo 265 Gold @ 2.4GHz + 4x Kryo 265 Silver @ 1.9 GHz
  • TSMC 6 nm N6 Process

    Kryo 260

The Kryo 260 CPU was announced along with the Snapdragon 660 Mobile Platform for mid-range smartphone in May 2017. The Kryo 260 cores are also used in the Snapdragon 636, Snapdragon 665, and Snapdragon 662.
  • 665/662: 4x Kryo 260 Gold @ 2.0 GHz + 4x Kryo 260 Silver @ 1.8 GHz
  • 660: 4x Kryo 260 Performance @ 2.2 GHz + 4x Kryo 260 Efficiency @ 1.8 GHz
  • 636: 4x Kryo 260 Performance/Gold @ 1.8 GHz + 4x Kryo 260 Efficiency/Silver @ 1.6 GHz
  • 2 MiB L2 cache for Performance/Gold and 1 MiB L2 cache for Efficiency/Silver cores
  • 660/636: Samsung 14nm LPP Process
  • 665/662: Samsung 11 nm LPP Process

    Kryo 250

Kryo 250 CPU was introduced in the Snapdragon 632 Mobile Platform, announced in June 2018. Also built on a 14 nm process, it is similar to Kryo 260, with a few differences in the size for L2 cache. Qualcomm claims the Snapdragon 632 has an increased performance of 40% compared to the Snapdragon 625/450, which only uses Cortex-A53 cores. Kryo 250 is also the first in the series to be used on an entry-level platform.
  • 632: 4x Kryo 250 Performance @ 1.8 GHz + 4x Kryo 250 Efficiency @ 1.8 GHz
  • Samsung 14LPP Process

    Kryo 240

Kryo 240 CPU was introduced in the Snapdragon 460 Mobile Platform, announced beginning 2020. Built on 11 nm process, uses Cortex-A73 and Cortex-A53 cores with big.LITTLE architecture. Qualcomm claims this CPU have an increased performance of 70% compared to previous generation, which only uses Cortex-A53 cores. Kryo 240 is to be used on an entry-level platform.
  • 460: 4x Kryo 240 Gold @ 1.8 GHz + 4x Kryo 240 Silver @ 1.8 GHz
  • 11 nm LPP process, first in Snapdragon 4-series line

    Kryo 300 Series

The Kryo 300 Series CPUs features semi-custom Gold and Silver cores derivative of Arm's Cortex-A75 and Cortex-A55 respectively, arranged in configurations with DynamIQ. These are Qualcomm's first CPUs to support ARMv8.2-A and DynamIQ. DynamIQ allows for more flexibility in CPU configuration including the amounts of cores/cache in each CPU clusters.

Kryo 385

The Kryo 385 core was announced as a part of the Snapdragon 845 in December 2017. Qualcomm expected 25–30% increased performance in task run on the high-performance cores, and 15% increase on efficiency cores, relative to the Snapdragon 835. Testing found significant advantages in performance and efficiency compared with the Exynos 8895 and 9810. The Kryo 385 is also used in the Snapdragon 850.
  • 845: 4x Kryo 385 Gold @ 2.8 GHz + 4x Kryo 385 Silver @ 1.8 GHz
  • 850: 4x Kryo 385 Gold @ 2.95 GHz + 4x Kryo 385 Silver @ 1.8 GHz
  • 4x256KB L2 cache for Gold and 4x128KB L2 cache for Silver
  • 2MB L3 in DSU @ 1478 MHz and 3MB system cache
  • Samsung 10 nm LPP Process
  • CPU die size: 11.39mm²
  • Gold core+L2 die size: 1.57mm²
  • Silver core+L2 die size: ~0.53mm²

    Kryo 360

The Kryo 360 is Qualcomm's upper mid-range semi-custom core. It was introduced in Snapdragon 710, announced in May 2018. The Kryo 360 is also used in the Snapdragon 670 and 712.
  • 712: 2x Kryo 360 Gold @ 2.3 GHz + 6x Kryo 360 Silver @ 1.7 GHz
  • 710: 2x Kryo 360 Gold @ 2.2 GHz + 6x Kryo 360 Silver @ 1.7 GHz
  • 670: 2x Kryo 360 Gold @ 2.0 GHz + 6x Kryo 360 Silver @ 1.7 GHz
  • Samsung 10 nm LPP Process

    Kryo 400 Series

The Kryo 400 Series CPUs features semi-custom Gold Prime/Gold and Silver cores derivative of ARM's Cortex-A76 and Cortex-A55 respectively, arranged in configurations with DynamIQ. Qualcomm revealed that their semi-custom Cortex-A76 have larger out-of-order execution window and data prefetchers more optimised in floating point workloads.

Kryo 495

The Kryo 495 CPU was announced with the Snapdragon 8cx on 6 December 2018. Qualcomm claims the 8cx is 60% more efficient than the Snapdragon 850.
  • 8cx: 4x Kryo 495 Gold @ 2.84 GHz+ 4x Kryo 495 Silver @ 1.80 GHz
  • Microsoft SQ1: 4x Kryo 495 Gold @ 3 GHz+ 4x Kryo 495 Silver @ 1.80 GHz
  • 2MB L3 cache
  • TSMC 7 nm CLN7FF Process

    Kryo 490

The Kryo 490 CPU was announced with the Snapdragon 8c on 5 December 2019.
  • 8c: 4x Kryo 490 Gold @ 2.45 GHz + 4x Kryo 490 Silver
  • 7 nm

    Kryo 485

The Kryo 485 CPU was announced with the Snapdragon 855 on 5 December 2018. Qualcomm claims up to 45% increase in performance compared to 845's Kryo 385. Testing found the 855 outperformed the 845 by 51% in SPECint2006, 61% in SPECfp2006 and 39% in power efficiency. The 855 also is significantly more efficient than the Exynos 9820.
  • 855: 1x Kryo 485 Gold Prime @ 2.84 GHz + 3x Kryo 485 Gold @ 2.42 GHz + 4x Kryo 485 Silver @ 1.80 GHz
  • 855+/860: 1x Kryo 485 Gold Prime @ 2.96 GHz + 3x Kryo 485 Gold @ 2.42 GHz + 4x Kryo 485 Silver @ 1.80 GHz
  • 1x512KB pL2 cache for Gold Prime, 3x256KB pL2 cache for Gold and 4x128KB pL2 cache for Silver
  • 2MB sL3 cache @ 1612 MHz and 3MB system level cache
  • TSMC 7 nm CLN7FF Process

    Kryo 475

The Kryo 475 CPU is Qualcomm's upper mid-range semi-custom core. It was introduced on 4 December 2019 in the Snapdragon 765 and 765G, and May 2020 in the Snapdragon 768G.
  • 768G: 1x Kryo 475 Prime @ 2.8 GHz + 1x Kryo 475 Gold @ 2.42 GHz + 6x Kryo 475 Silver @ 1.8 GHz
  • 765: 1x Kryo 475 Prime @ 2.3 GHz + 1x Kryo 475 Gold @ 2.2 GHz + 6x Kryo 475 Silver @ 1.8 GHz
  • 765G: 1x Kryo 475 Prime @ 2.4 GHz + 1x Kryo 475 Gold @ 2.2 GHz + 6x Kryo 475 Silver @ 1.8 GHz
  • ?MB system level cache
  • Samsung 7 nm EUV Process

    Kryo 470

The Kryo 470 CPU is Qualcomm's upper mid-range semi-custom core. It was introduced in April 2019 in the Snapdragon 730 and 730G, and August 2020 in the Snapdragon 732G.
  • 732G: 2x Kryo 470 Gold @ 2.3 GHz + 6x Kryo 470 Silver @ 1.8 GHz
  • 730/730G: 2x Kryo 470 Gold @ 2.2 GHz + 6x Kryo 470 Silver @ 1.8 GHz
  • 256KB L2 cache for Gold and 128KB L2 cache for Silver cores
  • 1MB system level cache
  • Samsung 8 nm LPP Process

    Kryo 468

The Kryo 468 CPU was announced with the Snapdragon 7c on 5 December 2019.
  • 7c: 2x Kryo 468 Gold @ 2.4 GHz + 6x Kryo 468 Silver
  • 8 nm

    Kryo 465

The Kryo 465 CPU is Qualcomm's upper mid-range semi-custom core. It was introduced in January 2020 in the Snapdragon 720G, with hardware support for NavIC.
  • 720G: 2x Kryo 465 Gold @ 2.3 GHz + 6x Kryo 465 Silver @ 1.8 GHz
  • 1MB system level cache
  • Samsung 8 nm LPP Process

    Kryo 460

The Kryo 460 CPU is Qualcomm's mid-range semi-custom core. It was introduced in October 2018 in the Snapdragon 675, in January 2021 in the Snapdragon 480
  • 678: 2x Kryo 460 Gold @ 2.2 GHz + 6x Kryo 460 Silver @ 1.7 GHz
  • 675: 2x Kryo 460 Gold @ 2.0 GHz + 6x Kryo 460 Silver @ 1.7 GHz
  • 480+: 2x Kryo 460 Gold @ 2.2 GHz + 6x Kryo 460 Silver @ 1.8 GHz
  • 480: 2x Kryo 460 Gold @ 2.0 GHz + 6x Kryo 460 Silver @ 1.8 GHz
  • 256KB L2 cache for Gold and 64KB L2 cache for Silver cores
  • 1MB system level cache
  • 675/678: Samsung 11 nm LPP Process
  • 480/480+: Samsung 8 nm LPP Process

    Kryo 500 Series

The Kryo 500 Series CPUs features semi-custom Prime/Gold and Silver cores derivative of ARM's Cortex-A77 and Cortex-A55 respectively, arranged in configurations with DynamIQ.

Kryo 585

The Kryo 585 CPU was announced with the Snapdragon 865 on 4 December 2019. Qualcomm claims up to 25% increase in performance and 25% greater efficiency compared to the Kryo 485.
  • 1x Kryo 585 Prime @ up to 2.84 GHz + 3x Kryo 585 Gold @ 2.42 GHz + 4x Kryo 585 Silver @ 1.80 GHz
  • 1x 512 KB pL2 cache for Prime, 3x 256 KB pL2 cache for Gold and 4x 128 KB pL2 cache for Silver
  • 4 MB sL3 cache and 3 MB system level cache
  • TSMC 2nd generation 7 nm Process