HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

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HiSilicon Kirin 980 Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2600MHz HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs. 4 cores 2500MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 . 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 0.148 TFLOPS )

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

Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 2500MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 28nm)

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +362%

583410

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

126118

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +250%

518

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

148

HiSilicon Kirin 980

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 2.5 GHz – Krait

2600 MHz

Frequency

2500 MHz

8

Cores

4

4 MB

L2 cache

2 MB

0

L3 cache

-

7 nm

Process

28 nm

6.9

Transistor count

1

6 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP10

GPU name

Adreno 330

720 MHz

GPU frequency

578 MHz

10

Execution units

1

36

Shading units

128

8

Max size

4

0.5184 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.148 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

12

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR3

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

14.9 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

No

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.0

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

2560 x 2048

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 21MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 21

4G support

LTE Cat. 5

No

5G support

No

Up to 1400 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 150 Mbps

Up to 200 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

4.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Aug 2018

Announced

Feb 2014

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

MSM8974 v3

HiSilicon Kirin 980

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 801

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