HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 845
SoC Comparison Result
Below are the results of a comparison of HiSilicon Kirin 980 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 mobile processors based on key performance characteristics, as well as power consumption and much more.
Advantages
- Higher Technology: 7 nm (7 nm vs 10 nm)
- Higher Max Bandwidth: 34.1 Gbit/s (34.1 Gbit/s vs 29.8 Gbit/s)
- Newer Launch Date: August 2018 (August 2018 vs December 2017)
- Higher Frequency: 2800 MHz (2600 MHz vs 2800 MHz)
Basic
HiSilicon
Label Name
Qualcomm
August 2018
Launch Date
December 2017
SmartPhone Flagship
Platform
SmartPhone Flagship
TSMC
Manufacturing
Samsung
Kirin 980
Model Name
SDM845
2x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A76
2x 1.92 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
Architecture
4x 2.8 GHz – Kryo 385 Gold (Cortex-A75)
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 385 Silver (Cortex-A55)
8
Cores
8
7 nm
Technology
10 nm
2600 MHz
Frequency
2800 MHz
GPU Specifications
Mali-G76 MP10
GPU name
Adreno 630
720 MHz
GPU frequency
710 MHz
0.5184 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.727 TFLOPS
36
Shading units
256
10
Execution units
2
2.0
OpenCL version
2.0
1.3
Vulkan version
1.1
3120 x 1440
Max display resolution
3840 x 2160
12
DirectX version
12.1
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 21
4G support
LTE Cat. 18
No
5G support
No
5.0
Bluetooth
5.0
6
Wi-Fi
5
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 32 Bit
34.1 Gbit/s
Max Bandwidth
29.8 Gbit/s
Miscellaneous
Yes
Neural processor (NPU)
Hexagon 685
4 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
1x 48MP, 2x 20MP
Max camera resolution
1x 192MP
UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0
Storage type
UFS 2.1
4K at 30FPS
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
H.264, H.265, VP9
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP9
4K at 30FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
6 W
TDP
9 W
ARMv8.2-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.2-A
Benchmarks
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Kirin 980
835
+48%
Snapdragon 845
566
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Kirin 980
2132
+3%
Snapdragon 845
2075
AnTuTu 10
Kirin 980
595078
+30%
Snapdragon 845
457459
FP32 (float)
Kirin 980
528
Snapdragon 845
742
+41%