MediaTek Dimensity 720 vs HiSilicon Kirin 980

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MediaTek Dimensity 720

HiSilicon Kirin 980

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2000MHz MediaTek Dimensity 720 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

MediaTek Dimensity 720 Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

HiSilicon Kirin 980 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.5184 TFLOPS vs 0.3264 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 17.07GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 2000MHz)

Lower TDP (6W vs 10W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

MediaTek Dimensity 720

391528

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +49%

583410

Geekbench 6 Single Core

MediaTek Dimensity 720

774

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +7%

835

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

MediaTek Dimensity 720

1861

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +14%

2132

FP32 (float)

MediaTek Dimensity 720

326

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +58%

518

MediaTek Dimensity 720

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 980

CPU

2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A76
6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

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

2000 MHz

Frequency

2600 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

-

L2 cache

4 MB

-

L3 cache

0

7 nm

Process

7 nm

-

Transistor count

6.9

10 W

TDP

6 W

-

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G57 MP3

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP10

850 MHz

GPU frequency

720 MHz

3

Execution units

10

64

Shading units

36

12

Max size

8

0.3264 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

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

17.07 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

UFS 2.2

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

2520 x 1080

Max display resolution

3120 x 1440

1x 64MP, 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, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 21

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 2770 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1400 Mbps

Up to 1250 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 200 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

5.1

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Jul 2020

Announced

Aug 2018

Mid range

Class

Flagship

MT6853V

Model number

-

MediaTek Dimensity 720

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 980

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