# Qualcomm IM SDK release 2.0
## Release information
Table : Supported platforms and reference kits
| SoC platforms | Reference kits |
| --- | --- |
| QCS6490 |
Qualcomm DragonwingTM RB3 Gen 2 Vision Development Kit
Qualcomm DragonwingTM RB3 Gen 2 Core Development Kit
Qualcomm DragonwingTM RB3 Gen 2 Industrial Kit
|
| QCS5430 | |
| Qualcomm Dragonwing^TM^ IQ-9075 | |
| Qualcomm Dragonwing^TM^ IQ-8275 | Qualcomm Dragonwing^TM^ IQ-8275 Beta Evaluation Kit (EVK) |
## Contents of the release
The contents of the Qualcomm IM SDK release include:
- Recipes for building the individual components:
- Qualcomm^®^ Intelligent Multimedia SDK (IM SDK)
- Lite Runtime (LiteRT)
- Qualcomm^®^ Neural Processing SDK
- Qualcomm^®^ AI Engine direct SDK
To get started with the Qualcomm IM SDK, see [Qualcomm Intelligent Multimedia (IM SDK) Quick Start Guide](https://docs.qualcomm.com/doc/80-80021-51).
## Limitations
The following are the known limitations in the Qualcomm IM SDK release:
- AI/ML parallel inference for 32 streams varies between 20–30 fps depending on the model and input stream, which is less than the expected 30 fps.
- Frame drops are observed with the Qualcomm^®^ Neural Network plugin when running on GPU delegate.
- Frame drops are observed in daisychain detection‑pose usecases when the pose detection load (people per frame × model inference time) exceeds the per‑frame time limit (33 ms for 30 fps).
- Reverse playback is limited to video streams with a GOP length that fits within the buffer limitations of the video driver (<= 26).
- For Dragonwing IQ-9075 and Dragonwing IQ-8275:
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> - Random corruption is observed at the beginning of playback for low-resolution (480p) NV12 UBWC-compressed streams.
> - Stability issues are observed when running multibatch ML use cases.
- The `waylandsink` plugin doesn’t support displaying windows at custom screen coordinates.
- When using the `qtimlpostprocess` plugin for postprocessing, a display latency occurs after approximately 30 minutes of running ML use cases on a camera stream.
- Use cases with files having dynamic resolution change (DRC) may fail. This issue occurs because the video driver allocates buffers that are only partially accessible to the GPU driver.
- `qtiobjtracker` exhibits non‑linear execution‑time growth during extended runs, which can act as a performance bottleneck.
- ROI isn’t being generated in daisychain detection‑classification use cases when using a USB camera source with the YUY2 format.
- The `qtiqmmfsrc` and `qtimltflite` plugins aren’t enabled in this release.
- The Qualcomm IM SDK in a docker container isn’t supported in this release.
Note
To enable the `v4l2h264dec` and `v4l2h264enc` plugins, switch to the upstream video driver. For more information, see [GStreamer command-line use cases](https://docs.qualcomm.com/doc/80-80021-50/topic/gstreamer-application-use-cases.html).
Note
The following plugins are deprecated. Use the corresponding replacement plugins.
| Deprecated plugins | Replacement plugins |
| --- | --- |
| `qtioverlay` | `qtivoverlay` |
|
qtimlvdetection
qtimlvclassification
qtimlvsegmentation
qtimlpose
| `qtimlpostprocess` |
## Related documents
- [Qualcomm Intelligent Multimedia SDK (IM SDK) Reference](https://docs.qualcomm.com/doc/80-80021-50/topic/qimsdk_landing_page.html)
- [Qualcomm Intelligent Multimedia (IM SDK) Quick Start Guide](https://docs.qualcomm.com/doc/80-80021-51/topic/qmi-sdk-qsg-landing-page.html)
- [Qualcomm Dragonwing RB3 Gen 2 Development Kit Guide](https://docs.qualcomm.com/doc/80-80021-251/topic/landing-page.html)
- [Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ-9075 Evaluation Kit user guide – Linux](https://docs.qualcomm.com/doc/80-80021-261/topic/iq9-ug-landing-page.html)
- [Qualcomm Linux Build Guide](https://docs.qualcomm.com/doc/80-80021-254/topic/build_landing_page.html)
- [Qualcomm Linux Migration Guide](https://docs.qualcomm.com/doc/80-80021-150/topic/landing-page.html)
Last Published: Mar 25, 2026
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