HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 730

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HiSilicon Kirin 980

Qualcomm Snapdragon 730

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2600MHz HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs. 8 cores 2200MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 730 . 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 0.3584 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 14.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 2200MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 8nm)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 730 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Released 8 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +58%

583410

Qualcomm Snapdragon 730

367428

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +19%

835

Qualcomm Snapdragon 730

698

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +29%

2132

Qualcomm Snapdragon 730

1645

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +44%

518

Qualcomm Snapdragon 730

358

HiSilicon Kirin 980

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 730

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 470 Gold (Cortex-A76)
6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 470 Silver (Cortex-A55)

2600 MHz

Frequency

2200 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

4 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

7 nm

Process

8 nm

6.9

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP10

GPU name

Adreno 618

720 MHz

GPU frequency

700 MHz

10

Execution units

2

36

Shading units

128

8

Max size

8

0.5184 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3584 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

1866 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Qualcomm Hexagon 688

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

UFS 3.0

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 192MP, 2x 22MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

X15

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 21

4G support

LTE Cat. 15

No

5G support

No

Up to 1400 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 800 Mbps

Up to 200 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Aug 2018

Announced

Apr 2019

Flagship

Class

Mid range

-

Model number

SM7150-AA

HiSilicon Kirin 980

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 730

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