Advantages
- Higher Technology: 7 nm (16 nm vs 7 nm)
- Higher Frequency: 2600 MHz (2120 MHz vs 2600 MHz)
- Newer Launch Date: August 2018 (December 2016 vs August 2018)
Basic
HiSilicon
Label Name
HiSilicon
December 2016
Launch Date
August 2018
SmartPhone Mid range
Platform
SmartPhone Flagship
-
Manufacturing
TSMC
Kirin 655
Model Name
Kirin 980
4x 2.12 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53
Architecture
2x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A76
2x 1.92 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
2x 1.92 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
8
Cores
8
16 nm
Technology
7 nm
2120 MHz
Frequency
2600 MHz
4
Transistor count
6.9
GPU Specifications
Mali-T830 MP2
GPU name
Mali-G76 MP10
900 MHz
GPU frequency
720 MHz
0.0576 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.5184 TFLOPS
16
Shading units
36
2
Execution units
10
1.2
OpenCL version
2.0
1.0
Vulkan version
1.3
1920 x 1200
Max display resolution
3120 x 1440
11
DirectX version
12
Connectivity
Up to 300 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 1400 Mbps
LTE Cat. 7
4G support
LTE Cat. 21
No
5G support
No
4.1
Bluetooth
5.0
4
Wi-Fi
6
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Memory Specifications
LPDDR3
Memory type
LPDDR4X
933 MHz
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
2x 32 Bit
Memory Bus
4x 16 Bit
Miscellaneous
-
L2 Cache
4 MB
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
1x 16MP, 2x 8MP
Max camera resolution
1x 48MP, 2x 20MP
eMMC 5.1
Storage type
UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0
1K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
H.264, H.265
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP9
1080p at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
5 W
TDP
6 W
ARMv8-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.2-A
No
Neural processor (NPU)
Yes
Benchmarks
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Kirin 655
189
Kirin 980
835
+342%
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Kirin 655
694
Kirin 980
2132
+207%
FP32 (float)
Kirin 655
56
Kirin 980
528
+843%
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