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	Core Name	Cores / Freq	Microarchitecture	SoCs	Introduction
Kryo 240	Kryo 240 Silver	4x @1.6GHz	Cortex-A53	Snapdragon 460 • SM4250-AA (11nm)	January 2020
	Kryo 240 Gold	4x @1.8GHz	Cortex-A73
Kryo 250	Kryo 250 Silver	4x @1.8GHz	Cortex-A53	Snapdragon 632 • SDM632 (14nm)	June 2018
	Kryo 250 Gold	4x @1.8GHz	Cortex-A73
Kryo 260	Kryo 260 Silver	4x @1.8GHz 4x @1.6GHz	Cortex-A53	Snapdragon 660 • SDM660 (14nm) Snapdragon 636 • SDM636 (14nm) Snapdragon 665 • SM6125 (11nm) Snapdragon 662 • SM6115 (11nm)	May 2017 October 2017 April 2019 January 2020
	Kryo 260 Gold	4x @2.2GHz 4x @1.8GHz	Cortex-A73
Kryo 265	Kryo 265 Silver	4x @1.9GHz	Cortex-A53	Snapdragon 680 (6nm) Snapdragon 685	October 2021
	Kryo 265 Gold	4x @2.4GHz 4x @2.8GHz	Cortex-A73
Kryo 280	Kryo 280 Silver	4x @1.9GHz	Cortex-A53	Snapdragon 835 • MSM8998 (10nm)	November 2016
	Kryo 280 Gold	4x @2.6GHz	Cortex-A73
Kryo 360	Kryo 360 Silver	6x @1.7GHz	Cortex-A55	Snapdragon 710 (10nm) Snapdragon 712 Snapdragon 670	May 2018
	Kryo 360 Gold	2x @2.2GHz	Cortex-A75
Kryo 385	Kryo 385 Silver	4x @1.8GHz	Cortex-A55	Snapdragon 845 • SDM845 (10nm) Snapdragon 850 • SDM850	December 2017
	Kryo 385 Gold	4x @2.8GHz	Cortex-A75
Kryo 460	Kryo 460 Silver	6x @1.7GHz 6x @1.8GHz	Cortex-A55	Snapdragon 675 Snapdragon 678 Snapdragon 480 • SM4350 (8nm) Snapdragon 480+ • SM4350-AC (8nm)	October 2018 January 2021
	Kryo 460 Gold	2x @2.0GHz 2x @2.2GHz	Cortex-A76
Kryo 465	Kryo 465 Silver	6x @1.8GHz	Cortex-A55	Snapdragon 720G	January 2020
	Kryo 465 Gold	2x @2.3GHz	Cortex-A76
Kryo 468	Kryo 468 Silver	6x @2.4GHz	Cortex-A55	Snapdragon 7c (8nm) Snapdragon 7c (Gen 2)	December 2019 April 2021
	Kryo 468 Gold	2x @2.4GHz	Cortex-A76
Kryo 470	Kryo 470 Silver	6x @1.8GHz	Cortex-A55	Snapdragon 730 (8nm) Snapdragon 730G Snapdragon 732G	April 2019 August 2020
	Kryo 470 Gold	2x @2.2GHz	Cortex-A76
Kryo 485	Kryo 485 Silver	4x @1.8GHz	Cortex-A55	Snapdragon 855 (+) Snapdragon 860 (7nm)	December 2018
	Kryo 485 Gold	3x @2.4GHz 1x @2.9GHz Prime Gold	Cortex-A76
Kryo 495	Kryo 495 Silver	4x @1.8GHz	Cortex-A55	Snapdragon 8cx (7nm) Microsoft SQ1	December 2018
	Kryo 495 Gold	4x @2.84GHz	Cortex-A76
Kryo 560	Kryo 560 Silver	6x @1.7GHz	Cortex-A55	Snapdragon 690 (8nm)	June 2020
	Kryo 560 Gold	2x @2.0GHz	Cortex-A77
Kryo 585	Kryo 585 Silver	4x @1.8GHz	Cortex-A55	Snapdragon 865 (7nm)	December 2019
	Kryo 585 Gold	3x @2.4GHz 1x @2.9GHz Prime Gold	Cortex-A77

See also

• Krait
• Scorpion