HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs MediaTek MT6737

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HiSilicon Kirin 980

MediaTek MT6737

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2600MHz HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs. 4 cores 1300MHz MediaTek MT6737 . 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 0.0208 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 6.4GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 1300MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 28nm)

Lower TDP (6W vs 7W)

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +492%

835

MediaTek MT6737

141

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +255%

2132

MediaTek MT6737

600

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +2490%

518

MediaTek MT6737

20

HiSilicon Kirin 980

VS

MediaTek MT6737

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 1.3 GHz – Cortex-A53

2600 MHz

Frequency

1300 MHz

8

Cores

4

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

4 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

7 nm

Process

28 nm

6.9

Transistor count

1

6 W

TDP

7 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP10

GPU name

Mali-T720 MP2

720 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

10

Execution units

2

36

Shading units

8

Max size

3

0.5184 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0208 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

1.1

12

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR3

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

640 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

1x 32 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

6.4 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

No

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.0

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

1280 x 720

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 13MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

1K at 30FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

1080p at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

MT6169

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 21

4G support

LTE Cat. 4

No

5G support

No

Up to 1400 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 150 Mbps

Up to 200 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

4

5.0

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS

Info

Aug 2018

Announced

Jan 2016

Flagship

Class

Mid range

-

Model number

MT6737

HiSilicon Kirin 980

Official page

MediaTek MT6737

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