Advantages
- Newer Launch Date: May 2025 (May 2025 vs August 2018)
- Higher Frequency: 2600 MHz (2285 MHz vs 2600 MHz)
Basic
HiSilicon
Label Name
HiSilicon
May 2025
Launch Date
August 2018
SmartPhone Mid range
Platform
SmartPhone Flagship
SMIC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Kirin 8020
Model Name
Kirin 980
1x 2.285 GHz, 3x 2.05 GHz, 4x 1.3 GHz
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
7 nm
Technology
7 nm
2285 MHz
Frequency
2600 MHz
-
Transistor count
6.9
GPU Specifications
Maleoon 920
GPU name
Mali-G76 MP10
840 MHz
GPU frequency
720 MHz
1.7203 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.5184 TFLOPS
512
Shading units
36
-
Execution units
10
2.0
OpenCL version
2.0
1.3
Vulkan version
1.3
-
Max display resolution
3120 x 1440
12
DirectX version
12
Connectivity
-
Download speed
Up to 1400 Mbps
-
4G support
LTE Cat. 21
Yes
5G support
No
5.4
Bluetooth
5.0
7
Wi-Fi
6
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Memory Specifications
LPDDR5X
Memory type
LPDDR4X
4266 MHz
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Memory Bus
4x 16 Bit
Miscellaneous
-
L2 Cache
4 MB
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
-
Max camera resolution
1x 48MP, 2x 20MP
UFS 4.0
Storage type
UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0
4K at 60FPS, 1K at 120FPS
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
- H.264
- H.265
- VP9
- H.265
- VP9
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP9
4K at 60FPS, 1080p at 120FPS
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
-
TDP
6 W
ARMv8-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.2-A
Da Vinci
Neural processor (NPU)
Yes
Benchmarks
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Kirin 8020
1377
+65%
Kirin 980
835
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Kirin 8020
3499
+64%
Kirin 980
2132
FP32 (float)
Kirin 8020
1686
+219%
Kirin 980
528
AnTuTu 10
Kirin 8020
988298
+66%
Kirin 980
595078
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