HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs HiSilicon Kirin 960

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2600MHz HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs. 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 960 . 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 0.2655 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 28.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 2360MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 16nm)

Released 1 years and 10 months late

HiSilicon Kirin 960 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +109%

583410

HiSilicon Kirin 960

278916

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +104%

835

HiSilicon Kirin 960

408

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +53%

2132

HiSilicon Kirin 960

1385

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +95%

518

HiSilicon Kirin 960

265

HiSilicon Kirin 980

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 960

CPU

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

Architecture

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

2600 MHz

Frequency

2360 MHz

8

Cores

8

4 MB

L2 cache

4 MB

0

L3 cache

-

7 nm

Process

16 nm

6.9

Transistor count

4

6 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP10

GPU name

Mali-G71 MP8

720 MHz

GPU frequency

1037 MHz

10

Execution units

8

36

Shading units

16

8

Max size

4

0.5184 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2655 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

11.3

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

1600 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

28.8 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

No

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

2560 x 1600

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

2x 16MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 21

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

No

5G support

No

Up to 1400 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 200 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Aug 2018

Announced

Oct 2016

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

Hi3660

HiSilicon Kirin 980

Official page

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