Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 vs HiSilicon Kirin 980

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 HiSilicon Kirin 980

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2840MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 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 855 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.8985 TFLOPS vs 0.5184 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.13GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2840MHz vs 2600MHz)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 +1%

592031

HiSilicon Kirin 980

583410

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 +12%

939

HiSilicon Kirin 980

835

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 +33%

2855

HiSilicon Kirin 980

2132

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 +73%

898

HiSilicon Kirin 980

518

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855

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HiSilicon Kirin 980

CPU

1x 2.84 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)

Architecture

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

2840 MHz

Frequency

2600 MHz

8

Cores

8

1 MB

L2 cache

4 MB

0

L3 cache

0

7 nm

Process

7 nm

6.7

Transistor count

6.9

6 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 640

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP10

585 MHz

GPU frequency

720 MHz

2

Execution units

10

384

Shading units

36

16

Max size

8

0.8985 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.5184 TFLOPS

1.1

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12.1

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.13 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

Hexagon 690

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 690

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

UFS 3.0

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

3120 x 1440

1x 192MP, 2x 22MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

4K at 120FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

X24 LTE, X50 5G

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 20

4G support

LTE Cat. 21

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 5000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1400 Mbps

Up to 1240 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 200 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Dec 2018

Announced

Aug 2018

Flagship

Class

Flagship

SM8150

Model number

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 980

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