HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs HiSilicon Kirin 985

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2600MHz HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs. 8 cores 2580MHz HiSilicon Kirin 985 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 980 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 2580MHz)

HiSilicon Kirin 985 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.652 TFLOPS vs 0.5184 TFLOPS )

Released 1 years and 8 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 980

518

HiSilicon Kirin 985 +25%

652

HiSilicon Kirin 980

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 985

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 2.58 GHz – Cortex-A76
3x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex-A55

2600 MHz

Frequency

2580 MHz

8

Cores

8

4 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

7 nm

Process

7 nm

6.9

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

-

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP10

GPU name

Mali-G77 MP8

720 MHz

GPU frequency

700 MHz

10

Execution units

8

36

Shading units

128

8

Max size

12

0.5184 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.652 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

是

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

是

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

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, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

Balong 5000

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 21

4G support

LTE Cat. 22

No

5G support

是

Up to 1400 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1277 Mbps

Up to 200 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 177 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Aug 2018

Announced

Apr 2020

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

Hi6290

HiSilicon Kirin 980

Official page

-

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