HiSilicon Kirin 820 vs HiSilicon Kirin 980

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 820 vs. 8 cores 2600MHz HiSilicon Kirin 980 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 820 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.6528 TFLOPS vs 0.5184 TFLOPS )

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Released 1 years and 7 months late

HiSilicon Kirin 980 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 31.78GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 2360MHz)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 820

498005

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +17%

583410

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 820 +25%

652

HiSilicon Kirin 980

518

HiSilicon Kirin 820

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 980

CPU

1x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A76
3x 2.22 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

2x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A76
2x 1.92 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55

2360 MHz

Frequency

2600 MHz

8

Cores

8

-

L2 cache

4 MB

-

L3 cache

0

7 nm

Process

7 nm

-

Transistor count

6.9

5 W

TDP

6 W

-

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G57 MP6

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP10

850 MHz

GPU frequency

720 MHz

6

Execution units

10

64

Shading units

36

12

Max size

8

0.6528 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.5184 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

31.78 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

UFS 2.1

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

3360 x 1440

Max display resolution

3120 x 1440

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Balong 5000

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 21

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 4600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1400 Mbps

Up to 200 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 200 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.1

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Mar 2020

Announced

Aug 2018

Mid range

Class

Flagship

-

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 980

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