HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

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HiSilicon Kirin 980 HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2600MHz HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs. 8 cores 2860MHz HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.6912 TFLOPS vs 0.5184 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2860MHz vs 2600MHz)

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 980

583410

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +14%

665287

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 980

835

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +16%

969

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 980

2132

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +48%

3176

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 980

518

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +33%

691

HiSilicon Kirin 980

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HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.86 GHz – Cortex-A76
2x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.95 GHz – Cortex-A55

2600 MHz

Frequency

2860 MHz

8

Cores

8

4 MB

L2 cache

2 MB

0

L3 cache

-

7 nm

Process

7 nm

6.9

Transistor count

8

6 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP10

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP16

720 MHz

GPU frequency

600 MHz

10

Execution units

16

36

Shading units

36

8

Max size

12

0.5184 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.6912 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

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Da Vinci

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Da Vinci

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

3360 x 1440

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

-

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VC-1

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

Balong 5000

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 21

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1400 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 4600 Mbps

Up to 200 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1250 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Info

Aug 2018

Announced

Oct 2019

Flagship

Class

Flagship

HiSilicon Kirin 980

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

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