HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite
We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2600MHz HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs. 8 cores 4320MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.
Main Differences
HiSilicon Kirin 980 Advantages
Lower TDP (6W vs 8W)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Advantages
Better graphics card performance FLOPS (3.3792 TFLOPS vs 0.5184 TFLOPS )
Larger memory bandwidth (42.7GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)
Higher Frequency (4320MHz vs 2600MHz)
More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 7nm)
Released 6 years and 2 months late
Score
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
HiSilicon Kirin 980
583410
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite
+426%
3070269
FP32 (float)
HiSilicon Kirin 980
518
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite
+552%
3379
CPU
2x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A76
2x 1.92 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
2x 1.92 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
Architecture
2x 4.32 GHz – Oryon (Phoenix L)
6x 3.53 GHz – Oryon (Phoenix M)
6x 3.53 GHz – Oryon (Phoenix M)
2600 MHz
Frequency
4320 MHz
8
Cores
8
ARMv8.2-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.7-A
4 MB
L2 cache
24 MB
0
L3 cache
-
7 nm
Process
3 nm
6.9
Transistor count
-
6 W
TDP
8 W
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Graphics
Mali-G76 MP10
GPU name
Adreno 830
720 MHz
GPU frequency
1100 MHz
10
Execution units
-
36
Shading units
1536
8
Max size
24
0.5184 TFLOPS
FLOPS
3.3792 TFLOPS
1.3
Vulkan version
1.3
2.0
OpenCL version
3.0
12
DirectX version
12.1
Memory
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR5X
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
5300 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Bus
2x 32 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max bandwidth
42.7 GB/s
AI
-
NPU
Hexagon
Multimedia (ISP)
Yes
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon
UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0
Storage type
UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1
3120 x 1440
Max display resolution
3840 x 2540
1x 48MP, 2x 20MP
Max camera resolution
1x 320MP
4K at 30FPS
Video capture
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video playback
8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
H.264, H.265, VP9
Video codecs
- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP8
- VP9
- H.265
- AV1
- VP8
- VP9
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
-
Modem
Snapdragon X80
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 3500 Mbps
6
Wi-Fi
7
5.0
Bluetooth
6.0
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
Aug 2018
Announced
Oct 2024
Flagship
Class
Flagship
-
Model number
SM8750-AB
