Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 vs HiSilicon Kirin 980

VS

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

HiSilicon Kirin 980

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 1800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 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

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

HiSilicon Kirin 980 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.5184 TFLOPS vs 0.1843 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 5.3GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 1800MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)

Released 10 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

220696

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +164%

583410

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

295

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +183%

835

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

1088

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +95%

2132

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

184

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +181%

518

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 980

CPU

4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 260 Gold (Cortex-A73)
4x 1.6 GHz – Kryo 260 Silver (Cortex-A53)

Architecture

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

1800 MHz

Frequency

2600 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

-

L2 cache

4 MB

-

L3 cache

0

14 nm

Process

7 nm

2

Transistor count

6.9

5 W

TDP

6 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 509

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP10

720 MHz

GPU frequency

720 MHz

1

Execution units

10

128

Shading units

36

8

Max size

8

0.1843 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.5184 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1333 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

5.3 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 680

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

1900 x 1200

Max display resolution

3120 x 1440

1x 24MP, 2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

X12

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 13

4G support

LTE Cat. 21

No

5G support

No

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1400 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 200 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Oct 2017

Announced

Aug 2018

Mid range

Class

Flagship

SDM636

Model number

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 636

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 980

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