HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 1

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HiSilicon Kirin 980

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 1

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2600MHz HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs. 8 cores 2000MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 . 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 0.4224 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 17GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 2000MHz)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 Advantages

More modern manufacturing process (6nm vs 7nm)

Released 4 years and 2 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +35%

583410

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 1

431521

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 980

835

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 1

840

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +12%

2132

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 1

1888

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +22%

518

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 1

422

HiSilicon Kirin 980

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 1

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A78
6x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55

2600 MHz

Frequency

2000 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

4 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

7 nm

Process

6 nm

6.9

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP10

GPU name

Adreno 619

720 MHz

GPU frequency

825 MHz

10

Execution units

2

36

Shading units

128

8

Max size

8

0.5184 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.4224 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

12.1

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 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 2.2

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 108MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

1K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

1080p at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

Snapdragon X51

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 21

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1400 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 2500 Mbps

Up to 200 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 900 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Aug 2018

Announced

Oct 2022

Flagship

Class

Low end

-

Model number

SM4375

HiSilicon Kirin 980

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 1

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