HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G vs HiSilicon Kirin 980

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HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

HiSilicon Kirin 980

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2860MHz HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G 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 990 5G Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.6912 TFLOPS vs 0.5184 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2860MHz vs 2600MHz)

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +14%

665287

HiSilicon Kirin 980

583410

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +16%

969

HiSilicon Kirin 980

835

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +48%

3176

HiSilicon Kirin 980

2132

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +33%

691

HiSilicon Kirin 980

518

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 980

CPU

2x 2.86 GHz – Cortex-A76
2x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.95 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

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

2860 MHz

Frequency

2600 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

2 MB

L2 cache

4 MB

-

L3 cache

0

7 nm

Process

7 nm

8

Transistor count

6.9

6 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP16

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP10

600 MHz

GPU frequency

720 MHz

16

Execution units

10

36

Shading units

36

12

Max size

8

0.6912 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.5184 TFLOPS

1.3

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

Multimedia (ISP)

Da Vinci

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

3360 x 1440

Max display resolution

3120 x 1440

-

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VC-1

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. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 21

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 4600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1400 Mbps

Up to 1250 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 200 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Oct 2019

Announced

Aug 2018

Flagship

Class

Flagship

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 980

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