HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1

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HiSilicon Kirin 980

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2600MHz HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs. 8 cores 2400MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 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

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 25.6GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 2400MHz)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.0138 TFLOPS vs 0.5184 TFLOPS )

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 7nm)

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 980

583410

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 +2%

595452

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 980

835

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 +16%

969

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 980

2132

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 +30%

2786

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 980

518

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 +95%

1013

HiSilicon Kirin 980

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A710
3x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A710
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510

2600 MHz

Frequency

2400 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv9-A

4 MB

L2 cache

3 MB

0

L3 cache

-

7 nm

Process

4 nm

6.9

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP10

GPU name

Adreno 644

720 MHz

GPU frequency

660 MHz

10

Execution units

2

36

Shading units

384

8

Max size

16

0.5184 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.0138 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

25.6 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

UFS 3.1

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

3360 x 1600

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

X62

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 21

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1400 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 4400 Mbps

Up to 200 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1600 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.3

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

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

Info

Aug 2018

Announced

May 2022

Flagship

Class

Mid range

-

Model number

SM7450-AB

HiSilicon Kirin 980

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1

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