HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

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HiSilicon Kirin 980

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2600MHz HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs. 8 cores 1800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 . 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 0.1152 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 7.46GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 1800MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 Advantages

Lower TDP (3W vs 6W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +280%

583410

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

153310

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +394%

835

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

169

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +179%

2132

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

763

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +350%

518

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

115

HiSilicon Kirin 980

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

CPU

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

Architecture

8x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53

2600 MHz

Frequency

1800 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

4 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

7 nm

Process

14 nm

6.9

Transistor count

2

6 W

TDP

3 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP10

GPU name

Adreno 506

720 MHz

GPU frequency

600 MHz

10

Execution units

1

36

Shading units

96

8

Max size

4

0.5184 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1152 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR3

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

1x 32 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

7.46 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 546

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

1920 x 1200

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 21MP, 2x 13MP

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

X9

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 21

4G support

LTE Cat. 7

No

5G support

No

Up to 1400 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 200 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 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

Jun 2017

Flagship

Class

Low end

-

Model number

SDM450

HiSilicon Kirin 980

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 450

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