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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.

Top SOC: 105

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

18%
19%
54%
Better then 18% SOC over the past year
Better then 19% SOC over the past 3 years
Better then 54% SOC

SiliconCat Rating

105
Ranks 105 among all SOC on our website
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Snapdragon 8 Gen 4
Qualcomm, October 2024
2902
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3
Qualcomm, November 2023
1149
Kirin 980
HiSilicon, August 2018
835
Helio G70
MediaTek, January 2020
418
Kirin 658
HiSilicon, March 2017
206
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
M2 iPad
Apple, June 2022
9898
Snapdragon 865
Qualcomm, December 2019
3277
Kirin 980
HiSilicon, August 2018
2132
Kirin 970
HiSilicon, September 2017
1377
Exynos 7884B
Samsung, September 2019
810
AnTuTu 10
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3
Qualcomm, October 2023
1914201
Snapdragon 888 Plus
Qualcomm, June 2021
845159
Kirin 980
HiSilicon, August 2018
589127
Dimensity 6020
MediaTek, March 2023
436043
Exynos 8895
Samsung, February 2017
347863
FP32 (float)
A15 Bionic
Apple, September 2021
1661
Snapdragon 855
Qualcomm, December 2018
925
Kirin 980
HiSilicon, August 2018
523
Snapdragon 4 Gen 2
Qualcomm, June 2023
355
Snapdragon 662
Qualcomm, January 2020
246