Kryo is a series of semi-custom ARM cores from Arm integrated by Qualcomm in their Snapdragon SoCs.

Overview

The Kryo series of cores are the successor Qualcomm's Krait cores. Unlike Krait, Kryo cores are not Qualcomm's own design but rather a semi-custom implementation of Arm's own Cortex cores.

Kryo cores usually come in two variants - termed Gold and Silver - denoting the underlying microarchitecture. The Silver variants utilize Arm's Cortex A ultra-low-power cores while the Gold variants utilize the high-performance cores instead. The two cores are combines using Arm's big.LITTLE or DynamIQ architecture.

Cores

	Core Name	Introduction	Microarchitecture	SoCs
Kryo 240	Kryo 240 Silver	January 2020	Cortex-A53	Snapdragon 460
	Kryo 240 Gold		Cortex-A73
Kryo 250	Kryo 250 Silver	June 2018	Cortex-A53	Snapdragon 632
	Kryo 250 Gold		Cortex-A73
Kryo 260	Kryo 260 Silver	May 2017 October 2017 April 2019 January 2020	Cortex-A53	Snapdragon 660 Snapdragon 636 Snapdragon 665 Snapdragon 662
	Kryo 260 Gold		Cortex-A73
Kryo 280	Kryo 280 Silver	November 2016	Cortex-A53	Snapdragon 835
	Kryo 280 Gold		Cortex-A73
Kryo 360	Kryo 360 Silver	May 2018	Cortex-A55	Snapdragon 710 Snapdragon 670
	Kryo 360 Gold		Cortex-A75
Kryo 385	Kryo 385 Silver	December 2017	Cortex-A55	Snapdragon 845
	Kryo 385 Gold		Cortex-A75
Kryo 460	Kryo 460 Silver	October 2018	Cortex-A55	Snapdragon 675
	Kryo 460 Gold		Cortex-A76
Kryo 465	Kryo 465 Silver	January 2020	Cortex-A55	Snapdragon 720G
	Kryo 465 Gold		Cortex-A76
Kryo 470	Kryo 470 Silver	April 2019	Cortex-A55	Snapdragon 730/730G
	Kryo 470 Gold		Cortex-A76
Kryo 485	Kryo 485 Silver	December 2018	Cortex-A55	Snapdragon 855
	Kryo 485 Gold		Cortex-A76
Kryo 495	Kryo 495 Silver	December 2018	Cortex-A55	Snapdragon 8cx
	Kryo 495 Gold		Cortex-A76
Kryo 560	Kryo 560 Silver	June 2020	Cortex-A55	Snapdragon 690
	Kryo 560 Gold		Cortex-A77
Kryo 585	Kryo 585 Silver	December 2019	Cortex-A55	Snapdragon 865
	Kryo 585 Gold		Cortex-A77

See also

• Krait
• Scorpion