Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 vs HiSilicon Kirin 980

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 HiSilicon Kirin 980

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 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 6 Gen 1 Advantages

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 7nm)

Released 4 years and 1 months late

HiSilicon Kirin 980 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 22GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 2200MHz)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1

582743

HiSilicon Kirin 980

583410

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 +13%

946

HiSilicon Kirin 980

835

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 +28%

2750

HiSilicon Kirin 980

2132

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1

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HiSilicon Kirin 980

CPU

4x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A78
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

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

2200 MHz

Frequency

2600 MHz

8

Cores

8

-

L2 cache

4 MB

-

L3 cache

0

4 nm

Process

7 nm

-

Transistor count

6.9

-

TDP

6 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 710

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP10

-

GPU frequency

720 MHz

-

Execution units

10

-

Shading units

36

8

Max size

8

-

FLOPS

0.5184 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.3

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR4X

2750 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

22 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

UFS 2.2

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

2520 x 1080

Max display resolution

3120 x 1440

1x 200MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

X62

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 21

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 2900 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1400 Mbps

Up to 1600 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 200 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.2

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2022

Announced

Aug 2018

Mid range

Class

Flagship

SM6450

Model number

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 980

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