Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 vs HiSilicon Kirin 980
SoC Comparison Result
Below are the results of a comparison of Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 and HiSilicon Kirin 980 mobile processors based on key performance characteristics, as well as power consumption and much more.
Advantages
- Higher Frequency: 2960 MHz (2960 MHz vs 2600 MHz)
- Higher Max Bandwidth: 34.13 Gbit/s (34.13 Gbit/s vs 34.1 Gbit/s)
- Newer Launch Date: April 2019 (April 2019 vs August 2018)
Basic
Qualcomm
Label Name
HiSilicon
April 2019
Launch Date
August 2018
SmartPhone Flagship
Platform
SmartPhone Flagship
Samsung
Manufacturing
TSMC
SM8150-AC
Model Name
Kirin 980
1x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Prime)
3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)
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
2960 MHz
Frequency
2600 MHz
GPU Specifications
Adreno 640
GPU name
Mali-G76 MP10
675 MHz
GPU frequency
720 MHz
1.0368 TFLOPS
FLOPS
0.5184 TFLOPS
384
Shading units
36
2
Execution units
10
2.0
OpenCL version
2.0
1.1
Vulkan version
1.3
3840 x 2160
Max display resolution
3120 x 1440
12.1
DirectX version
12
Connectivity
LTE Cat. 20
4G support
LTE Cat. 21
Yes
5G support
No
5.1
Bluetooth
5.0
6
Wi-Fi
6
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Memory Specifications
LPDDR4X
Memory type
LPDDR4X
2133 MHz
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
4x 16 Bit
Memory Bus
4x 16 Bit
34.13 Gbit/s
Max Bandwidth
34.1 Gbit/s
Miscellaneous
Hexagon 690
Neural processor (NPU)
Yes
1 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Audio codecs
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
1x 192MP, 2x 22MP
Max camera resolution
1x 48MP, 2x 20MP
UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1
Storage type
UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0
4K at 120FPS
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP9
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
6 W
TDP
6 W
ARMv8.2-A
Instruction set
ARMv8.2-A
Benchmarks
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Snapdragon 860
996
+19%
Kirin 980
835
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Snapdragon 860
2569
+20%
Kirin 980
2132
AnTuTu 10
Snapdragon 860
623982
+5%
Kirin 980
595078
FP32 (float)
Snapdragon 860
1015
+92%
Kirin 980
528