HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 810

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HiSilicon Kirin 980 Qualcomm Snapdragon 810

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2600MHz HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs. 8 cores 2000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 980 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.5184 TFLOPS vs 0.3072 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 25.6GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 2000MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 20nm)

Released 4 years and 4 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +286%

835

Qualcomm Snapdragon 810

216

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +350%

2132

Qualcomm Snapdragon 810

473

HiSilicon Kirin 980

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 810

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 1.5 GHz Cortex A53
4x 2.0 GHz Cortex A57

2600 MHz

Frequency

2000 MHz

8

Cores

8

4 MB

L2 cache

2 MB

0

L3 cache

-

7 nm

Process

20 nm

6.9

Transistor count

2.5

6 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP10

GPU name

Adreno 430

720 MHz

GPU frequency

600 MHz

10

Execution units

1

36

Shading units

256

8

Max size

8

0.5184 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3072 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

12

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

1600 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

25.6 GB/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Hexagon V56

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon V56

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.0

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1 x 55MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF

-

Modem

X10

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 21

4G support

LTE Cat. 9

No

5G support

No

Up to 1400 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 450 Mbps

Up to 200 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS

Info

Aug 2018

Announced

Apr 2014

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

MSM8994

HiSilicon Kirin 980

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 810

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