HiSilicon Kirin 985 vs HiSilicon Kirin 980

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2580MHz HiSilicon Kirin 985 vs. 8 cores 2600MHz HiSilicon Kirin 980 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 985 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.652 TFLOPS vs 0.5184 TFLOPS )

Released 1 years and 8 months late

HiSilicon Kirin 980 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 2580MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 985 +25%

652

HiSilicon Kirin 980

518

HiSilicon Kirin 985

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 980

CPU

1x 2.58 GHz – Cortex-A76
3x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

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

2580 MHz

Frequency

2600 MHz

8

Cores

8

-

L2 cache

4 MB

-

L3 cache

0

7 nm

Process

7 nm

-

Transistor count

6.9

6 W

TDP

6 W

-

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G77 MP8

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP10

700 MHz

GPU frequency

720 MHz

8

Execution units

10

128

Shading units

36

12

Max size

8

0.652 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.5184 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

是

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

是

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

3120 x 1440

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Balong 5000

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 22

4G support

LTE Cat. 21

是

5G support

No

Up to 1277 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1400 Mbps

Up to 177 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 200 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Apr 2020

Announced

Aug 2018

Flagship

Class

Flagship

Hi6290

Model number

-

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 980

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