The OnePlus 5T uses the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 system on chip which features an octa-core CPU called Kryo 280 consisting of four high-performance cores running up to 2.45 GHz and four efficiency cores running up to 1.9 GHz. The Kryo 280 uses a 64-bit ARMv8-A instruction set and employs a multi-level cache hierarchy with separate 4KB L0 caches for each core, 16KB L1 caches, and a shared 2MB L2 cache.