Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 vs HiSilicon Kirin 980

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 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 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (3.3792 TFLOPS vs 0.5184 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (64GB/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 +166%

1554839

HiSilicon Kirin 980

583410

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 +552%

3379

HiSilicon Kirin 980

518

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 980

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

1 MB

L2 cache

4 MB

0

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

768

Shading units

36

24

Max size

8

3.3792 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

64 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

Hexagon

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

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

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

8K at 60FPS, 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

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

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 980

Related SoC Comparison

1

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1

2

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 vs MediaTek Dimensity 8200

3

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

4

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 vs MediaTek Dimensity 7200 Ultra

5

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 vs MediaTek Dimensity 8300

6

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 vs Samsung Exynos 1480

7

HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs MediaTek Helio G99

8

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 vs HiSilicon Kirin 980

9

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 vs MediaTek Dimensity 820

10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 429