HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

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HiSilicon Kirin 980 Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2600MHz HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs. 8 cores 2450MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 . 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 29.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 2450MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 10nm)

Lower TDP (6W vs 9W)

Released 1 years and 9 months late

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.5675 TFLOPS vs 0.5184 TFLOPS )

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +71%

583410

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

339384

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +101%

835

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

415

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +40%

2132

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

1519

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 980

518

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 +9%

567

HiSilicon Kirin 980

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 2.45 GHz – Kryo 280 (Cortex-A73)
4x 1.9 GHz – Kryo 280 (Cortex-A53)

2600 MHz

Frequency

2450 MHz

8

Cores

8

4 MB

L2 cache

2 MB

0

L3 cache

-

7 nm

Process

10 nm

6.9

Transistor count

3

6 W

TDP

9 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP10

GPU name

Adreno 540

720 MHz

GPU frequency

739 MHz

10

Execution units

1

36

Shading units

384

8

Max size

8

0.5184 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.5675 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 32 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Hexagon 682

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 682

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

UFS 2.1

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 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, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

X16

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 21

4G support

LTE Cat. 16

No

5G support

No

Up to 1400 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1000 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

Info

Aug 2018

Announced

Nov 2016

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

MSM8998

HiSilicon Kirin 980

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835

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