HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 660

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HiSilicon Kirin 980 Qualcomm Snapdragon 660

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2600MHz HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs. 8 cores 2200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 . 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 0.2176 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 13.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 2200MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +158%

583410

Qualcomm Snapdragon 660

225927

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +142%

835

Qualcomm Snapdragon 660

345

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +71%

2132

Qualcomm Snapdragon 660

1242

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +138%

518

Qualcomm Snapdragon 660

217

HiSilicon Kirin 980

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 660

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 260 Gold (Cortex-A73)
4x 1.84 GHz – Kryo 260 Silver (Cortex-A53)

2600 MHz

Frequency

2200 MHz

8

Cores

8

4 MB

L2 cache

2 MB

0

L3 cache

-

7 nm

Process

14 nm

6.9

Transistor count

1.75

6 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP10

GPU name

Adreno 512

720 MHz

GPU frequency

850 MHz

10

Execution units

1

36

Shading units

128

8

Max size

8

0.5184 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2176 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

13.9 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Hexagon 680

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 680

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

2560 x 1600

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP, 2x 16MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

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

-

Modem

X12

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 21

4G support

LTE Cat. 13

No

5G support

No

Up to 1400 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 200 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC

Info

Aug 2018

Announced

May 2017

Flagship

Class

Mid range

-

Model number

SM6115

HiSilicon Kirin 980

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 660

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