AMD Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit (K26 SOM) vs Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite (CRD)

FPGA / Versal coverage note: 1,243 rows come from the AMD Vitis AI 3.0/3.5 Model Zoo tables; 733 (59%) are image classification. Detection, segmentation and other workloads are thinner, and there is no LLM or speech data for these boards. All are vendor-published (grade D). FPGA / Versal overview.

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No like-for-like comparison yet: both have published results, but model size or batch differ. Treat the numbers below as indicative only.

	AMD Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit (K26 SOM)	Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite (CRD)
Best object detection	276 FPS D Older data (2023)	1502 FPS D 2026-10-07 (published)
Power	7.50 W spec	n/a
Perf / W	36.76 FPS/W spec	n/a
Price	n/a	n/a
Workloads with data	4 of 7	6 of 7

Best published object detection result per platform. n/a = not published; never estimated.

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object detection

⚠ MIXED COMPARISON — not like-for-like. Baseline nano (YOLO-n) at batch 1. Differs: model-size class unknown vs nano (YOLO-n).

Platform	Result	Model · precision · stack	Grade	Power	Source
AMD Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit (K26 SOM)	33.60 FPS throughput (DPU only) · b=1	YOLOv8n-Ghost (Hard-Swish, xView3-SAR) INT8 (Vitis AI quantizer, power-of-two) · Vitis AI 3.5 VART, DPU inference only, 2 threads · nano (YOLO-n)	C	7.50 W spec platform spec envelope (not measured with this result)	arXiv 2507.04842v2 (SAR vessel detection on Kria KV260), Table 6 2025-11-17 (published)
Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite (CRD) MIXED: model-size class unknown vs nano (YOLO-n)	1502 FPS inference_time · b=1	yolov8_det / YOLOv8-Detection w8a8 · Qualcomm AI Hub onnx (QAIRT 2.50.0.260828221209) · unknown	D	unknown power n/a no power published	Qualcomm AI Hub Models perf.yaml (BSD-3) 2026-10-07 (published)

No shared like-for-like group exists for this pair.

instance segmentation

Only Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite (CRD) has published instance segmentation results.

Platform	Result	Model · precision · stack	Grade	Power	Source
Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite (CRD)	1311 FPS inference_time · b=1	yolov8_seg / YOLOv8-Segmentation w8a8 · Qualcomm AI Hub onnx (QAIRT 2.50.0.260828221209) · unknown	D	unknown power n/a no power published	Qualcomm AI Hub Models perf.yaml (BSD-3) 2026-10-07 (published)

AMD Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit (K26 SOM):

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No published instance segmentation results for AMD Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit (K26 SOM) or Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite (CRD) yet.
We only show cited public figures — nothing is estimated to fill gaps. Requests tell us what to source or test next.

pose estimation

⚠ MIXED COMPARISON — not like-for-like. Baseline mid-size CNN at batch 1. Differs: model-size class mobile-class CNN vs mid-size CNN; batch unknown vs 1.

Platform	Result	Model · precision · stack	Grade	Power	Source
Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite (CRD)	1855 FPS inference_time · b=1	hrnet_pose w8a8 · Qualcomm AI Hub onnx (QAIRT 2.50.0.260828221209) · mid-size CNN	D	unknown power n/a no power published	Qualcomm AI Hub Models perf.yaml (BSD-3) 2026-10-07 (published)
AMD Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit (K26 SOM) MIXED: model-size class mobile-class CNN vs mid-size CNN; batch unknown vs 1	352 FPS E2E throughput, multi thread · b=unknown	pt_movenet_coco_192_192_0.5G INT8 · Vitis AI 3.0 (VART) · mobile-class CNN	D	7.50 W spec reported in result source — spec	Vitis AI 3.0 Model Zoo performance table Older data (2023)

No shared like-for-like group exists for this pair.

image classification

⚠ MIXED COMPARISON — not like-for-like. Baseline mobile-class CNN at batch 1. Differs: batch unknown vs 1.

Platform	Result	Model · precision · stack	Grade	Power	Source
Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite (CRD)	3953 FPS inference_time · b=1	mobilenet_v2 w8a16 · Qualcomm AI Hub onnx (QAIRT 2.50.0.260828221209) · mobile-class CNN	D	unknown power n/a no power published	Qualcomm AI Hub Models perf.yaml (BSD-3) 2026-10-07 (published)
AMD Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit (K26 SOM) MIXED: batch unknown vs 1	2432 FPS E2E throughput, multi thread · b=unknown	tf_mobilenetv1_0.25_imagenet_128_128_27M INT8 · Vitis AI 3.0 (VART) · mobile-class CNN	D	7.50 W spec reported in result source — spec	Vitis AI 3.0 Model Zoo performance table Older data (2023)

No shared like-for-like group exists for this pair.

semantic segmentation

⚠ MIXED COMPARISON — not like-for-like. Baseline mobile-class CNN at batch 1. Differs: model-size class mid-size CNN vs mobile-class CNN; batch unknown vs 1.

Platform	Result	Model · precision · stack	Grade	Power	Source
Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite (CRD)	609 FPS inference_time · b=1	deeplabv3_plus_mobilenet w8a8 · Qualcomm AI Hub onnx (QAIRT 2.50.0.260828221209) · mobile-class CNN	D	unknown power n/a no power published	Qualcomm AI Hub Models perf.yaml (BSD-3) 2026-10-07 (published)
AMD Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit (K26 SOM) MIXED: model-size class mid-size CNN vs mobile-class CNN; batch unknown vs 1	183 FPS E2E throughput, multi thread · b=unknown	tf2_2d-unet_nuclei_128_128_5.31G INT8 · Vitis AI 3.0 (VART) · mid-size CNN	D	7.50 W spec reported in result source — spec	Vitis AI 3.0 Model Zoo performance table Older data (2023)

No shared like-for-like group exists for this pair.

speech-to-text

Only Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite (CRD) has published speech-to-text results.

Platform	Result	Model · precision · stack	Grade	Power	Source
Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite (CRD)	408 FPS inference_time · b=1	whisper_base / decoder float · Qualcomm AI Hub precompiled_qnn_onnx (QAIRT 2.50.0.260828221209) · Whisper base	D	unknown power n/a no power published	Qualcomm AI Hub Models perf.yaml (BSD-3) 2026-10-07 (published)

AMD Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit (K26 SOM):

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No published speech-to-text results for AMD Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit (K26 SOM) or Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite (CRD) yet.
We only show cited public figures — nothing is estimated to fill gaps. Requests tell us what to source or test next.

LLM generation

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No published LLM generation results for AMD Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit (K26 SOM) or Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite (CRD) yet.
We only show cited public figures — nothing is estimated to fill gaps. Requests tell us what to source or test next.

How to read these numbers

Every number is labelled. Confidence: A MLPerf closed, audited · B documented third-party method · C community / review · D vendor-published, not independently verified · E estimate. Power basis: measured with the result · spec vendor spec/envelope · power n/a not published.

Machine-readable: /find.json (see llms.txt); full tables are in “Show data”. Confidence grades: A audited MLPerf closed · B documented third-party · C community · D vendor-published · E estimate. Unknown values are shown as unknown, never estimated. Generated 2026-10-16 from public sources.