HiSilicon Kirin 980
vs
HiSilicon Kirin 710A

vs

SoC Comparison Result

Below are the results of a comparison of HiSilicon Kirin 980 and HiSilicon Kirin 710A mobile processors based on key performance characteristics, as well as power consumption and much more.

Advantages

  • Higher Technology: 7 nm (7 nm vs 14 nm)
  • Higher Frequency: 2600 MHz (2600 MHz vs 2000 MHz)
  • Newer Launch Date: June 2020 (August 2018 vs June 2020)

Basic

HiSilicon
Label Name
HiSilicon
August 2018
Launch Date
June 2020
SmartPhone Flagship
Platform
SmartPhone Mid range
TSMC
Manufacturing
TSMC
Kirin 980
Model Name
Kirin 710A
2x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A76
2x 1.92 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
Architecture
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53
8
Cores
8
7 nm
Technology
14 nm
2600 MHz
Frequency
2000 MHz
6.9
Transistor count
-

GPU Specifications

Mali-G76 MP10
GPU name
Mali-G51 MP4
720 MHz
GPU frequency
1000 MHz
0.5184 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.128 TFLOPS
36
Shading units
16
10
Execution units
4
2.0
OpenCL version
2.0
1.3
Vulkan version
1.3
3120 x 1440
Max display resolution
2340 x 1080
12
DirectX version
12

Connectivity

Up to 1400 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 600 Mbps
LTE Cat. 21
4G support
LTE Cat. 12
No
5G support
No
5.0
Bluetooth
4.2
6
Wi-Fi
4
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Memory Specifications

LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR4X
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
1866 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Memory Bus
2x 32 Bit

Miscellaneous

4 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
1x 48MP, 2x 20MP
Max camera resolution
1x 40MP, 2x 24MP
UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0
Storage type
eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
4K at 30FPS
Video capture
1K at 30FPS
H.264, H.265, VP9
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
4K at 30FPS
Video playback
1080p at 60FPS
6 W
TDP
5 W
ARMv8.2-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
Yes
Neural processor (NPU)
No

Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 Single Core
Kirin 980
835 +160%
Kirin 710A
321
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Kirin 980
2132 +88%
Kirin 710A
1135
FP32 (float)
Kirin 980
528 +303%
Kirin 710A
131
AnTuTu 10
Kirin 980
595078 +149%
Kirin 710A
238784