HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G

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HiSilicon Kirin 980

Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2600MHz HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs. 8 cores 2400MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G . 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 778G Advantages

More modern manufacturing process (6nm vs 7nm)

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 980

835

Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G +17%

981

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 980

2132

Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G +30%

2787

HiSilicon Kirin 980

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 2.4 GHz – Kryo 670 Prime (Cortex-A78)
3x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 670 Gold (Cortex-A78)
4x 1.9 GHz – Kryo 670 Silver (Cortex-A55)

2600 MHz

Frequency

2400 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.4-A

4 MB

L2 cache

2 MB

0

L3 cache

-

7 nm

Process

6 nm

6.9

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

-

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP10

GPU name

Adreno 642L

720 MHz

GPU frequency

490 MHz

10

Execution units

2

36

Shading units

384

8

Max size

16

0.5184 TFLOPS

FLOPS

-

1.3

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

12

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)

Hexagon 770

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 2.2, UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 192MP, 2x 36MP

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, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

X53

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 21

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

是

Up to 1400 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1200 Mbps

Up to 200 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 210 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

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

Info

Aug 2018

Announced

May 2021

Flagship

Class

Mid range

-

Model number

SM7325

HiSilicon Kirin 980

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G

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