Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 vs HiSilicon Kirin 980
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 3000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 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
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 's Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.6896 TFLOPS vs 0.5184 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (67.2GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)
Higher Frequency (3000MHz vs 2600MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 7nm)
Released 5 years and 7 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
+155%
1490645
HiSilicon Kirin 980
583410
FP32 (float)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
+226%
1689
HiSilicon Kirin 980
518
CPU
1x 3 GHz – Cortex-X4
4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A720
3x 2 GHz – Cortex-A520
Architecture
2x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A76
2x 1.92 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
3000 MHz
Frequency
2600 MHz
8
Cores
8
ARMv9.2-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.2-A
1 MB
L2 cache
4 MB
8 MB
L3 cache
0
4 nm
Process
7 nm
-
Transistor count
6.9
6 W
TDP
6 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Adreno 735
GPU name
Mali-G76 MP10
1100 MHz
GPU frequency
720 MHz
2
Execution units
10
256
Shading units
36
24
Max size
8
1.6896 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.5184 TFLOPS
1.3
Vulkan version
1.3
2.0
OpenCL version
2.0
12.1
DirectX version
12
Memory
LPDDR5X
Memory type
LPDDR4X
4200 MHz
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
4x 16 Bit
67.2 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
34.1 Gbit/s
AI
Hexagon
NPU
-
Multimedia (ISP)
Hexagon
Neural processor (NPU)
Yes
UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0
Storage type
UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0
3840 x 2160
Max display resolution
3120 x 1440
1x 200MP
Max camera resolution
1x 48MP, 2x 20MP
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
4K at 120FPS
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP8
- VP9
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP9
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Snapdragon X70 5G
Modem
-
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 22
4G support
LTE Cat. 21
Yes
5G support
No
Up to 6500 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 1400 Mbps
Up to 3500 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 200 Mbps
7
Wi-Fi
6
5.4
Bluetooth
5.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Mar 2024
Announced
Aug 2018
Flagship
Class
Flagship
SM8635
Model number
-
