HiSilicon Kirin 980
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 730G

vs

SoC Comparison Result

Below are the results of a comparison of HiSilicon Kirin 980 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 730G mobile processors based on key performance characteristics, as well as power consumption and much more.

Advantages

  • Higher Technology: 7 nm (7 nm vs 8 nm)
  • Higher Frequency: 2600 MHz (2600 MHz vs 2200 MHz)
  • Newer Launch Date: April 2019 (August 2018 vs April 2019)

Basic

HiSilicon
Label Name
Qualcomm
August 2018
Launch Date
April 2019
SmartPhone Flagship
Platform
SmartPhone Mid range
TSMC
Manufacturing
Samsung
Kirin 980
Model Name
SM7150-AB
2x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A76
2x 1.92 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
Architecture
2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 470 Gold (Cortex-A76)
6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 470 Silver (Cortex-A55)
8
Cores
8
7 nm
Technology
8 nm
2600 MHz
Frequency
2200 MHz
6.9
Transistor count
-

GPU Specifications

Mali-G76 MP10
GPU name
Adreno 618
720 MHz
GPU frequency
825 MHz
0.5184 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.4224 TFLOPS
36
Shading units
128
10
Execution units
2
2.0
OpenCL version
2.0
1.3
Vulkan version
1.1
3120 x 1440
Max display resolution
2520 x 1080
12
DirectX version
12.1

Connectivity

Up to 1400 Mbps
Download speed
Up to 800 Mbps
LTE Cat. 21
4G support
LTE Cat. 15
No
5G support
No
5.0
Bluetooth
5.0
6
Wi-Fi
6
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS

Memory Specifications

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

Miscellaneous

4 MB
L2 Cache
-
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
1x 48MP, 2x 20MP
Max camera resolution
1x 192MP, 2x 22MP
UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0
Storage type
UFS 3.0
4K at 30FPS
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
H.264, H.265, VP9
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
4K at 30FPS
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
6 W
TDP
5 W
ARMv8.2-A
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
Yes
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon 688

Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 Single Core
Kirin 980
835 +19%
Snapdragon 730G
701
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Kirin 980
2132 +17%
Snapdragon 730G
1826
FP32 (float)
Kirin 980
528 +23%
Snapdragon 730G
430
AnTuTu 10
Kirin 980
595078 +61%
Snapdragon 730G
370715