HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs MediaTek Dimensity 800

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HiSilicon Kirin 980 MediaTek Dimensity 800

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2600MHz HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs. 8 cores 2000MHz MediaTek Dimensity 800 . 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 0.3328 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 17.07GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 2000MHz)

Lower TDP (6W vs 8W)

MediaTek Dimensity 800 Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +29%

835

MediaTek Dimensity 800

644

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 980

2132

MediaTek Dimensity 800 +6%

2276

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +56%

518

MediaTek Dimensity 800

332

HiSilicon Kirin 980

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MediaTek Dimensity 800

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

2600 MHz

Frequency

2000 MHz

8

Cores

8

4 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

0

L3 cache

0

7 nm

Process

7 nm

6.9

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

8 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP10

GPU name

Mali-G57 MP4

720 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

10

Execution units

4

36

Shading units

64

8

Max size

16

0.5184 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3328 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.3

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

2x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

17.07 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

UFS 2.2

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 64MP, 2x 16MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

2K at 30FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

2K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 21

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1400 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 2770 Mbps

Up to 200 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1250 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

5.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Info

Aug 2018

Announced

Dec 2019

Flagship

Class

Mid range

-

Model number

MT6873

HiSilicon Kirin 980

Official page

MediaTek Dimensity 800

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