HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs HiSilicon Kirin 980

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HiSilicon Kirin 970

HiSilicon Kirin 980

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 970 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 980 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.5184 TFLOPS vs 0.3318 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 29.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 2360MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 10nm)

Lower TDP (6W vs 9W)

Released 11 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 970

355946

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +63%

583410

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 970

386

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +116%

835

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 970

1377

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +54%

2132

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 970

331

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +56%

518

HiSilicon Kirin 970

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 980

CPU

4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A73
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53

Architecture

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

2360 MHz

Frequency

2600 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

2 MB

L2 cache

4 MB

0

L3 cache

0

10 nm

Process

7 nm

5.5

Transistor count

6.9

9 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G72 MP12

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP10

768 MHz

GPU frequency

720 MHz

12

Execution units

10

18

Shading units

36

8

Max size

8

0.3318 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.5184 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

UFS 2.1

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

3120 x 1440

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

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, VC-1

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 21

No

5G support

No

Up to 1200 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1400 Mbps

Up to 150 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

Sep 2017

Announced

Aug 2018

Flagship

Class

Flagship

Hi3670

Model number

-

HiSilicon Kirin 970

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 980

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