HiSilicon Kirin 950 vs HiSilicon Kirin 980

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2400MHz HiSilicon Kirin 950 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

HiSilicon Kirin 950 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

HiSilicon Kirin 980 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.5184 TFLOPS vs 0.1152 TFLOPS )

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

Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 2400MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 16nm)

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 950

372

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +124%

835

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 950

1016

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +109%

2132

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 950

115

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +350%

518

HiSilicon Kirin 950

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 980

CPU

4x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

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

2400 MHz

Frequency

2600 MHz

8

Cores

8

-

L2 cache

4 MB

-

L3 cache

0

16 nm

Process

7 nm

2

Transistor count

6.9

5 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-T880 MP4

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP10

900 MHz

GPU frequency

720 MHz

4

Execution units

10

16

Shading units

36

4

Max size

8

0.1152 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.5184 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.3

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11.2

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4X

-

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

25.6 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

No

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

3120 x 1440

1x 21MP, 2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 21

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1400 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 200 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Nov 2015

Announced

Aug 2018

Flagship

Class

Flagship

Hi3650

Model number

-

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 980

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