HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

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HiSilicon Kirin 980 Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2600MHz HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs. 8 cores 2840MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 980 Advantages

Lower TDP (6W vs 10W)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.72 TFLOPS vs 0.5184 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2840MHz vs 2600MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 7nm)

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 980

835

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 +77%

1481

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 980

2132

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 +77%

3794

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 980

518

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 +232%

1720

HiSilicon Kirin 980

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 2.84 GHz – Kryo 680 Prime (Cortex-X1)
3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 680 Gold (Cortex-A78)
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 680 Silver (Cortex-A55)

2600 MHz

Frequency

2840 MHz

8

Cores

8

4 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

0

L3 cache

0

7 nm

Process

5 nm

6.9

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

10 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

-

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP10

GPU name

Adreno 660

720 MHz

GPU frequency

840 MHz

10

Execution units

2

36

Shading units

512

8

Max size

24

0.5184 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.72 TFLOPS

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

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Hexagon 780

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Hexagon 780

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 120FPS

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

X60

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 21

4G support

LTE Cat. 22

No

5G support

是

Up to 1400 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 2500 Mbps

Up to 200 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 316 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

Dec 2020

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

SM8350

HiSilicon Kirin 980

Official page

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

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