MediaTek Dimensity 900 vs HiSilicon Kirin 980

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MediaTek Dimensity 900 HiSilicon Kirin 980

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2400MHz MediaTek Dimensity 900 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 900 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.621 TFLOPS vs 0.5184 TFLOPS )

More modern manufacturing process (6nm vs 7nm)

Lower TDP (4W vs 6W)

Released 2 years and 9 months late

HiSilicon Kirin 980 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 18.4GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 2400MHz)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

MediaTek Dimensity 900

516049

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +13%

583410

Geekbench 6 Single Core

MediaTek Dimensity 900 +7%

898

HiSilicon Kirin 980

835

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

MediaTek Dimensity 900 +5%

2240

HiSilicon Kirin 980

2132

FP32 (float)

MediaTek Dimensity 900 +19%

621

HiSilicon Kirin 980

518

MediaTek Dimensity 900

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HiSilicon Kirin 980

CPU

2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A78
6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

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

2400 MHz

Frequency

2600 MHz

8

Cores

8

-

L2 cache

4 MB

0

L3 cache

0

6 nm

Process

7 nm

10

Transistor count

6.9

4 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G68 MP4

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP10

900 MHz

GPU frequency

720 MHz

4

Execution units

10

48

Shading units

36

16

Max size

8

0.621 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.5184 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR4X

3200 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

18.4 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.1

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

2520 x 1080

Max display resolution

3120 x 1440

1x 108MP, 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, AV1, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

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

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.2

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

May 2021

Announced

Aug 2018

Mid range

Class

Flagship

MT6877

Model number

-

MediaTek Dimensity 900

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 980

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