MediaTek Dimensity 820 vs HiSilicon Kirin 980

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MediaTek Dimensity 820 HiSilicon Kirin 980

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2600MHz MediaTek Dimensity 820 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 820 Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

HiSilicon Kirin 980 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.5184 TFLOPS vs 0.416 TFLOPS )

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

Lower TDP (6W vs 8W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

MediaTek Dimensity 820

489218

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +19%

583410

Geekbench 6 Single Core

MediaTek Dimensity 820 +1%

847

HiSilicon Kirin 980

835

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

MediaTek Dimensity 820 +16%

2494

HiSilicon Kirin 980

2132

FP32 (float)

MediaTek Dimensity 820

416

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +24%

518

MediaTek Dimensity 820

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HiSilicon Kirin 980

CPU

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

Architecture

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

2600 MHz

Frequency

2600 MHz

8

Cores

8

1 MB

L2 cache

4 MB

0

L3 cache

0

7 nm

Process

7 nm

-

Transistor count

6.9

8 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G57 MP5

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP10

650 MHz

GPU frequency

720 MHz

5

Execution units

10

64

Shading units

36

16

Max size

8

0.416 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

AI

Yes

NPU

Yes

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 80MP, 2x 32MP

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

May 2020

Announced

Aug 2018

Mid range

Class

Flagship

MT6875

Model number

-

MediaTek Dimensity 820

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 980

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