HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

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HiSilicon Kirin 980 Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2600MHz HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs. 8 cores 3000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.5128 TFLOPS vs 0.5184 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3000MHz vs 2600MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 7nm)

Lower TDP (5.3W vs 6W)

Released 3 years and 4 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 980

583410

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 +91%

1118907

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 980

835

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 +99%

1664

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 980

2132

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 +89%

4030

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 980

518

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 +384%

2512

HiSilicon Kirin 980

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 3 GHz – Cortex-X2
3x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A710
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510

2600 MHz

Frequency

3000 MHz

8

Cores

8

4 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

0

L3 cache

0

7 nm

Process

4 nm

6.9

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

5.3 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP10

GPU name

Adreno 730

720 MHz

GPU frequency

818 MHz

10

Execution units

2

36

Shading units

768

8

Max size

24

0.5184 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.5128 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Hexagon

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

UFS 3.1

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

Snapdragon X65

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 21

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1400 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 10000 Mbps

Up to 200 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3670 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC

Info

Aug 2018

Announced

Dec 2021

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

SM8450

HiSilicon Kirin 980

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

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