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HiSilicon Kirin 980

HiSilicon Kirin 980

HiSilicon Kirin 980 is a SmartPhone Flagship platform from HiSilicon. It began to be released in August 2018. The SoC has 8 cores produced using 7 nm technology. And it also has a maximum frequency of 2600 MHz. Its characteristics, as well as benchmark results, are presented in more detail below.

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Basic

Label Name
HiSilicon
Platform
SmartPhone Flagship
Launch Date
August 2018
Manufacturing
TSMC
Model Name
Kirin 980
Architecture
2x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A76 2x 1.92 GHz – Cortex-A76 4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
Cores
8
Technology
7 nm
Frequency
2600 MHz
Transistor count
6.9
Instruction set
ARMv8.2-A

GPU Specifications

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

Connectivity

4G support
LTE Cat. 21
5G support
No
Bluetooth
5.0
Wi-Fi
6
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Memory Specifications

Memory type
LPDDR4X
Memory frequency
2133 MHz
Memory Bus
4x 16 Bit
Max Bandwidth
34.1 Gbit/s

Miscellaneous

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

Geekbench 6

Single Core
835
Multi Core
2132

AnTuTu 10

589127

FP32 (float)

523

Compared to Other SoC

13%
18%
54%
Better then 13% SOC over the past year
Better then 18% SOC over the past 3 years
Better then 54% SOC

SiliconCat Rating

100
Ranks 100 among all SOC on our website
Geekbench 6 Single Core
M4 iPad
Apple, May 2024
3729
Snapdragon 870
Qualcomm, January 2021
1151
Kirin 980
HiSilicon, August 2018
835
Helio G85
MediaTek, April 2020
416
Snapdragon 430
Qualcomm, September 2015
206
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
M4 iPad
Apple, May 2024
14530
Snapdragon 865
Qualcomm, December 2019
3277
Kirin 980
HiSilicon, August 2018
2132
Helio G80
MediaTek, February 2020
1354
Snapdragon 821
Qualcomm, August 2016
797
AnTuTu 10
Dimensity 9300 Plus
MediaTek, May 2024
2328320
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3
Qualcomm, November 2023
847923
Kirin 980
HiSilicon, August 2018
589127
Dimensity 6080
MediaTek, June 2023
435944
Snapdragon 675
Qualcomm, October 2018
331044
FP32 (float)
A16 Bionic
Apple, September 2022
1770
Snapdragon 855
Qualcomm, December 2018
925
Kirin 980
HiSilicon, August 2018
523
Snapdragon 730
Qualcomm, April 2019
347
Exynos 8890
Samsung, November 2015
246