HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 425

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HiSilicon Kirin 980 Qualcomm Snapdragon 425

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2600MHz HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs. 4 cores 1400MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 425 . 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 0.024 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 5.34GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 1400MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 28nm)

Released 2 years and 6 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 425 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +327%

583410

Qualcomm Snapdragon 425

136588

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +2058%

518

Qualcomm Snapdragon 425

24

HiSilicon Kirin 980

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 425

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 1.4 GHz – Cortex-A53

2600 MHz

Frequency

1400 MHz

8

Cores

4

4 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

7 nm

Process

28 nm

6.9

Transistor count

1

6 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP10

GPU name

Adreno 308

720 MHz

GPU frequency

500 MHz

10

Execution units

1

36

Shading units

24

8

Max size

4

0.5184 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.024 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

12

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR3

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

667 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

5.34 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Hexagon 536

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 536

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

1280 x 800

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 16MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

1K at 30FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

1080p at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

X6

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 21

4G support

LTE Cat. 5

No

5G support

No

Up to 1400 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 150 Mbps

Up to 200 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 75 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Aug 2018

Announced

Feb 2016

Flagship

Class

Low end

-

Model number

MSM8917

HiSilicon Kirin 980

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 425

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