HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus

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HiSilicon Kirin 980 Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2600MHz HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs. 8 cores 3100MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.3721 TFLOPS vs 0.5184 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (44GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3100MHz vs 2600MHz)

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 980

583410

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus +36%

796278

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 980

835

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus +39%

1163

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 980

2132

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus +55%

3306

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 980

518

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus +164%

1372

HiSilicon Kirin 980

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 3.1 GHz – Kryo 585 Prime (Cortex-A77)
3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 585 Gold (Cortex-A77)
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 585 Silver (Cortex-A55)

2600 MHz

Frequency

3100 MHz

8

Cores

8

4 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

0

L3 cache

0

7 nm

Process

7 nm

6.9

Transistor count

10.3

6 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP10

GPU name

Adreno 650

720 MHz

GPU frequency

670 MHz

10

Execution units

2

36

Shading units

512

8

Max size

16

0.5184 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.3721 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.1

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

12.1

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

2750 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

44 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Hexagon 698

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 698

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 200MP, 2x 25MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

8K 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

X55

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 21

4G support

LTE Cat. 22

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1400 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7500 Mbps

Up to 200 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3000 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

Jul 2020

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

SM8250-AB

HiSilicon Kirin 980

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus

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