HiSilicon Kirin 9030 Pro
vs
HiSilicon Kirin 980

vs

SoC Comparison Result

Below are the results of a comparison of HiSilicon Kirin 9030 Pro and HiSilicon Kirin 980 mobile processors based on key performance characteristics, as well as power consumption and much more.

Advantages

  • Higher Frequency: 2750 MHz (2750 MHz vs 2600 MHz)
  • Newer Launch Date: November 2025 (November 2025 vs August 2018)

Basic

HiSilicon
Label Name
HiSilicon
November 2025
Launch Date
August 2018
SmartPhone Flagship
Platform
SmartPhone Flagship
SMIC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Kirin 9030 Pro
Model Name
Kirin 980
1x 2.75 GHz
3x 1.72 GHz
4x 2.27 GHz
Architecture
2x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A76
2x 1.92 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
8
Cores
8
7 nm
Technology
7 nm
2750 MHz
Frequency
2600 MHz
-
Transistor count
6.9

GPU Specifications

-
GPU name
Mali-G76 MP10
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GPU frequency
720 MHz
-
FLOPS
0.5184 TFLOPS
-
Shading units
36
-
Execution units
10
-
OpenCL version
2.0
-
Vulkan version
1.3
3840 x 2160
Max display resolution
3120 x 1440
-
DirectX version
12

Connectivity

Up to 7500 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 1400 Mbps
LTE Cat. 24
4G support
LTE Cat. 21
Yes
5G support
No
6.0
Bluetooth
5.0
7
Wi-Fi
6
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Memory Specifications

LPDDR5X
Memory type
LPDDR4X
-
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Memory Bus
4x 16 Bit

Miscellaneous

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L2 Cache
4 MB
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
-
Max camera resolution
1x 48MP, 2x 20MP
UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1
Storage type
UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0
4K at 60FPS
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
- H.264
- H.265
- VP9
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP9
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
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TDP
6 W
ARMv8-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.2-A
Da Vinci
Neural processor (NPU)
Yes

Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 Single Core
Kirin 9030 Pro
1717 +106%
Kirin 980
835
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Kirin 9030 Pro
5933 +178%
Kirin 980
2132
AnTuTu 10
Kirin 9030 Pro
1785744 +200%
Kirin 980
595078