Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 vs HiSilicon Kirin 980

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 HiSilicon Kirin 980

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2840MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 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 888 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.72 TFLOPS vs 0.5184 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2840MHz vs 2600MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 7nm)

Released 2 years and 4 months late

HiSilicon Kirin 980 Advantages

Lower TDP (6W vs 10W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 +77%

1481

HiSilicon Kirin 980

835

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 +77%

3794

HiSilicon Kirin 980

2132

FP32 (float)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 +232%

1720

HiSilicon Kirin 980

518

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 980

CPU

1x 2.84 GHz – Kryo 680 Prime (Cortex-X1)
3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 680 Gold (Cortex-A78)
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 680 Silver (Cortex-A55)

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

5 nm

Process

7 nm

-

Transistor count

6.9

10 W

TDP

6 W

-

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Adreno 660

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP10

840 MHz

GPU frequency

720 MHz

2

Execution units

10

512

Shading units

36

24

Max size

8

1.72 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.5184 TFLOPS

1.1

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

51.2 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

Hexagon 780

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

Hexagon 780

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

3120 x 1440

1x 200MP, 2x 25MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

8K at 30FPS

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

X60

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 22

4G support

LTE Cat. 21

是

5G support

No

Up to 2500 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1400 Mbps

Up to 316 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 200 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.2

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Dec 2020

Announced

Aug 2018

Flagship

Class

Flagship

SM8350

Model number

-

Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 980

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