HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

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HiSilicon Kirin 980 Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2600MHz HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs. 8 cores 2960MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.0368 TFLOPS vs 0.5184 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.13GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2960MHz vs 2600MHz)

Released 8 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 980

583410

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 +9%

636716

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 980

835

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 +19%

996

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 980

2132

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 +20%

2569

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 980

518

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 +100%

1036

HiSilicon Kirin 980

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Prime)
3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)

2600 MHz

Frequency

2960 MHz

8

Cores

8

4 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

0

L3 cache

0

7 nm

Process

7 nm

6.9

Transistor count

6.7

6 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP10

GPU name

Adreno 640

720 MHz

GPU frequency

675 MHz

10

Execution units

2

36

Shading units

384

8

Max size

16

0.5184 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.0368 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

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.13 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Hexagon 690

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 690

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 192MP, 2x 22MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 120FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

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

X24 LTE, X50 5G

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 21

4G support

LTE Cat. 20

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1400 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 5000 Mbps

Up to 200 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1240 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Info

Aug 2018

Announced

Apr 2019

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

SM8150-AC

HiSilicon Kirin 980

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 860

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