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HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5

SOC SOC
CPU
Architecture 2x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A762x 1.92 GHz – Cortex-A764x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 2x 4.61 GHz –6x 3.63 GHz –
Frequency 2600 MHz 4610 MHz
Cores 8 8
Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv9.2-A
L1 cache 512 KB 1792 KB
L2 cache 0 24 MB
L3 cache 0 8 MB
Process 7 nm 3 nm
Transistor count 6.9
TDP 6 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Graphics
GPU name Mali-G76 MP10 Adreno 840
GPU frequency 720 MHz 1200 MHz
Execution units 10
Shading units 36 512
Vulkan version 1.3
OpenCL version 2.0
DirectX version 12
Memory
Memory Type LPDDR4X LPDDR5X
Memory frequency 2133 MHz
Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 34.1 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU) Yes
Storage type UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0 UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1
Max display resolution 3120 x 1440
Max camera resolution 1x 48MP, 2x 20MP 1x 320MP
Video capture 4K at 30FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video playback 4K at 30FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP9 - H.264- H.265- AV1- VP8- VP9
Audio codecs AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV
Connectivity
4G support LTE Cat. 21 LTE Cat. 24
5G support No Yes
Download speed Up to 1400 Mbps
Upload speed Up to 200 Mbps
Wi-Fi 6 7
Bluetooth 5.0 6.0
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Info
Announced Aug 2018 Sep 2025
Class Flagship Flagship
Official page Official Link ↗
Model number SM8850
AI
NPU Hexagon
Benchmarks
AnTuTu 10 583410 3115282
Geekbench 6 Single Core 835 3834
Geekbench 6 Multi Core 2132 12396
FP32 (float) 518 3686