HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs Google Tensor

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HiSilicon Kirin 980 Google Tensor

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2600MHz HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs. 8 cores 2800MHz Google Tensor . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Google Tensor Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.1709 TFLOPS vs 0.5184 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2800MHz vs 2600MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 7nm)

Lower TDP (5.6W vs 6W)

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 980

583410

Google Tensor +36%

797825

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 980

835

Google Tensor +57%

1319

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 980

2132

Google Tensor +51%

3234

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 980

518

Google Tensor +318%

2170

HiSilicon Kirin 980

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Google Tensor

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-X1
2x 2.25 GHz – Cortex A76
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex A55

2600 MHz

Frequency

2800 MHz

8

Cores

8

4 MB

L2 cache

3 MB

0

L3 cache

0

7 nm

Process

5 nm

6.9

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

5.6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP10

GPU name

Mali-G78 MP20

720 MHz

GPU frequency

848 MHz

10

Execution units

20

36

Shading units

64

8

Max size

12

0.5184 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.1709 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Tensor Processing Unit

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Tensor Processing Unit

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

UFS 3.1

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP, 2x 32MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

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Modem

Exynos 5300g

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 21

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1400 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7350 Mbps

Up to 200 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3670 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Aug 2018

Announced

Oct 2021

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

S5E9845

HiSilicon Kirin 980

Official page

Google Tensor

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