HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs HiSilicon Kirin 9000E

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HiSilicon Kirin 980

HiSilicon Kirin 9000E

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2600MHz HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs. 8 cores 3130MHz HiSilicon Kirin 9000E . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 9000E Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (2.1373 TFLOPS vs 0.5184 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (44GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3130MHz vs 2600MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 7nm)

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 980

835

HiSilicon Kirin 9000E +40%

1176

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 980

2132

HiSilicon Kirin 9000E +52%

3255

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 980

518

HiSilicon Kirin 9000E +312%

2137

HiSilicon Kirin 980

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HiSilicon Kirin 9000E

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 3.13 GHz – Cortex-A77
3x 2.54 GHz – Cortex-A77
4x 2.05 GHz – Cortex-A55

2600 MHz

Frequency

3130 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

4 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

7 nm

Process

5 nm

6.9

Transistor count

15.3

6 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP10

GPU name

Mali-G78 MP22

720 MHz

GPU frequency

759 MHz

10

Execution units

22

36

Shading units

64

8

Max size

16

0.5184 TFLOPS

FLOPS

2.1373 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

2750 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

44 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

AI accelerator

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

-

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, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

Balong 5000

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 21

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1400 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 4600 Mbps

Up to 200 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 2500 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, NAVIC

Info

Aug 2018

Announced

Oct 2020

Flagship

Class

Flagship

HiSilicon Kirin 980

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 9000E

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