MediaTek MT6580 vs HiSilicon Kirin 980

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MediaTek MT6580

HiSilicon Kirin 980

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 4 cores 1300MHz MediaTek MT6580 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 980 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.5184 TFLOPS vs 0.004 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 4.3GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 1300MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 28nm)

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

MediaTek MT6580

4

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +12850%

518

MediaTek MT6580

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 980

CPU

4x 1.3 GHz – Cortex-A7

Architecture

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

1300 MHz

Frequency

2600 MHz

4

Cores

8

-

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

512 KB

L2 cache

4 MB

-

L3 cache

0

28 nm

Process

7 nm

1

Transistor count

6.9

-

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-400 MP2

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP10

500 MHz

GPU frequency

720 MHz

2

Execution units

10

2

Shading units

36

2

Max size

8

0.004 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.5184 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.3

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

10

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR4X

533 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

1x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

4.3 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

eMMC 5.0

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

1440 x 720

Max display resolution

3120 x 1440

1x 13MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

1K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

1080p at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 5

4G support

LTE Cat. 21

No

5G support

No

Up to 150 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1400 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 200 Mbps

4

Wi-Fi

6

4.1

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Jan 2016

Announced

Aug 2018

Low end

Class

Flagship

MT6580

Model number

-

MediaTek MT6580

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 980

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