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HiSilicon Kirin 980

HiSilicon Kirin 980

The HiSilicon Kirin 980 is an ARM based high-end octa-core SoC for smartphones and tablets, which was introduced with the Huawei Mate 20 Pro in late 2018. It integrates eight CPU cores in three clusters. The performance cluster contains two Cortex-A76 cores with up to 2.6 GHz, the balanced cluster contains also two Cortex-A76 cores but with only up to 1.92 GHz and finally the power saving cluster contains four small ARM Cortex-A53 cores with up to 1.8 GHz. Furthermore, the SoC integrates a modern LTE radio with Cat 21/18 (max. 1400 Mbps download, 200 Mbps upload), 2x faster dual ISP (versus 970), a LPDDR4X 2133 MHz memory controller (34.1 GB/s versus 29.9 GB/s of the Kirin 970) and a 2160p30 H.265 video encoder (2160p60 decoding). The Kirin 980 is produced in the modern 7nm process at TSMC as the first Android SoC (after the Apple A12).

SeriesHiSilicon
CodenameCortex-A76/-A55
Series: Cortex-A76/-A55
HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G (compare) - 2860 MHz8 / 8
HiSilicon Kirin 990 (compare) - 2860 MHz8 / 8
» HiSilicon Kirin 980 - 2600 MHz8 / 8
Clock Rate <=2600 MHz
Number of Cores / Threads8 / 8
Transistor Count6900 Million
Manufacturing Technology7 nm
FeaturesARM Mali-G76 GPU, 2x Cortex-A76 (2.6 GHz) + 2x Cortex-A76 (1.92) + 4x Cortex-A53 (1.8 GHz, big.LITTLE), 2x LTE Dual-SIM (1.4 Gbps down Cat21)
GPUARM Mali-G76 MP10 ( - 720 MHz)
64 Bit64 Bit support
Announcement Date08/31/2017

Benchmarks

3DMark - Ice Storm Unlimited Physics 1280x720 offscreen
min: 19993     avg: 27047     median: 23103.5 (27%)     max: 37164 Points
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3DMark - Sling Shot Extreme (ES 3.1) Unlimited Physics 2560x1440
min: 2227     avg: 3461     median: 3426.5 (43%)     max: 4917 Points
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3DMark - Sling Shot OpenGL ES 3.0 Unlimited Physics 2560x1440
min: 2421     avg: 3580     median: 3726 (73%)     max: 4997 Points
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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Stream
min: 1576     avg: 2232     median: 2231.5 (18%)     max: 2887 Points
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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Memory
min: 2969     avg: 5181     median: 5180.5 (47%)     max: 7392 Points
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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Floating Point
min: 15206     avg: 16273     median: 16273 (32%)     max: 17340 Points
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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Integer
min: 7157     avg: 7523     median: 7523 (15%)     max: 7889 Points
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Geekbench 2 - 32 Bit - Total Score
min: 8578     avg: 9588     median: 9587.5 (25%)     max: 10597 Points
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Geekbench 3 - 64 Bit Multi-Core Score
min: 8473     avg: 8680     median: 8679.5 (14%)     max: 8886 Points
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Geekbench 3 - 64 Bit Single-Core Score
min: 2922     avg: 2994     median: 2994 (61%)     max: 3066 Points
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Geekbench 4.0 - 64 Bit Single-Core Score
min: 3563     avg: 3601     median: 3601 (57%)     max: 3639 Points
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Geekbench 4.0 - 64 Bit Multi-Core Score
min: 9577     avg: 9735     median: 9734.5 (27%)     max: 9892 Points
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Geekbench 4.4 - 64 Bit Single-Core Score
min: 3207     avg: 3303     median: 3314 (52%)     max: 3378 Points
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Geekbench 4.4 - 64 Bit Multi-Core Score
min: 9547     avg: 9838     median: 9854 (17%)     max: 10024 Points
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Geekbench 5 - 64 Bit Single-Core Score
min: 685     avg: 696     median: 695.5 (52%)     max: 707 Points
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Geekbench 5 - 64 Bit Multi-Core Score
min: 2347     avg: 2474     median: 2500 (15%)     max: 2549 Points
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Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Total Score *
min: 1947.9     avg: 2176     median: 2053.6 (3%)     max: 3098.1 ms
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Octane V2 - Total Score
min: 20618     avg: 21733     median: 21603.5 (41%)     max: 23285 Points
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AnTuTu v6 - Total Score
min: 245662     avg: 250407     median: 250848 (85%)     max: 254229 Points
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PassMark PerformanceTest Mobile V1 - CPU Tests
min: 246439     avg: 246733     median: 246733 (32%)     max: 247027 Points
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PCMark for Android - Computer Vision score
min: 4919     avg: 7101     median: 7789 (46%)     max: 7905 Points
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PCMark for Android - Storage score
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PCMark for Android - Work 2.0 performance score
min: 7567     avg: 8433     median: 8147.5 (66%)     max: 9326 Points
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PCMark for Android - Work performance score
min: 9728     avg: 11164     median: 10243.5 (52%)     max: 13531 Points
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Reviews for the HiSilicon Kirin 980 processor

Honor 20 (ARM Mali-G76 MP10, 6.26")
» Honor 20 Smartphone Review: a quad camera in a midrange smartphone - Review
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Honor 20 Pro (ARM Mali-G76 MP10, 6.26")
» Honor 20 Pro Smartphone Review – Quad-Cam and a lot of Stamina - Review
» Honor 20 Pro - External Review

Honor Magic 2 (ARM Mali-G76 MP10, 6.39")
» Honor Magic 2 Smartphone Review - Review
» Honor Magic 2 - External Review

Honor View 20 (ARM Mali-G76 MP10, 6.4")
» Honor View 20 Smartphone Review - Review
» Honor View 20 - External Review

Huawei Mate 20 (ARM Mali-G76 MP10, 6.53")
» Huawei Mate 20 Smartphone Review - Review
» Huawei Mate 20 - External Review

Huawei Mate 20 Pro (ARM Mali-G76 MP10, 6.3")
» Huawei Mate 20 Pro Smartphone Review - Review
» Huawei Mate 20 Pro - External Review

Huawei Mate 20 RS Porsche Design (ARM Mali-G76 MP10, 6.39")
» Huawei Mate 20 RS Porsche Design - External Review

Huawei Mate 20 X (ARM Mali-G76 MP10, 7.2")
» Huawei Mate 20 X Smartphone Review - Review
» Huawei Mate 20 X - External Review

Huawei Mate 20 X 5G (ARM Mali-G76 MP10, 7.2")
» Huawei Mate 20 X 5G - External Review

Huawei Mate X (ARM Mali-G76 MP10, 8")
» Huawei Mate X - External Review

Huawei MediaPad M6 10 (ARM Mali-G76 MP10, 10.8")
» Huawei MediaPad M6 10 - External Review

Huawei Nova 5 Pro (ARM Mali-G76 MP10, 6.39")
» Huawei Nova 5 Pro - External Review

Huawei Nova 5T (ARM Mali-G76 MP10, 6.26")
» Huawei Nova 5T Smartphone Review – Honor Clone With Improvements - Review
» Huawei Nova 5T - External Review

Huawei P30 (ARM Mali-G76 MP10, 6.1")
» Huawei P30 Smartphone Review - Review
» Huawei P30 - External Review

Huawei P30 Pro (ARM Mali-G76 MP10, 6.47")
» Huawei P30 Pro Smartphone Review - Review
» Huawei P30 Pro - External Review

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Other CPUs of the series

» Kirin 970
   2.4 GHz
» Kirin 960
   2.4 GHz
» Kirin 960s
   2.1 GHz
» Apple A9X
   2.26 GHz
» Kirin 955
   2.5 GHz
» Kirin 950
   2.3 GHz
» Mediatek MT6797X
   2.6 GHz
» HiSilicon Kirin 710
   2.2 GHz
» Apple A9
   1.8 GHz
» Apple A8X
   1.5 GHz / 2 MB L2 + 4 MB L3
» Apple A8
   1.4 GHz / 1 MB L2 + 4 MB L3
» SC9863A
   1.6 GHz
» VIA Nano QuadCore L4700
   1.2 GHz / 4 MB L2
» Kirin 925
   1.8 GHz
» Kirin 920
   1.7 GHz
» Kirin 935
   2.2 GHz
» Kirin 659
   2.36 GHz
» Kirin 658
   2.35 GHz
» Kirin 655
   2.1 GHz
» Kirin 650
   2 GHz
» Kirin 930
   2 GHz
» Apple A7
   1.3 GHz / 1 MB L2 + 4 MB L3
» RK3288
   1.8 GHz
» Kirin 910T
   1.8 GHz
» Mediatek MT8161
   1.3 GHz
» RK3188
   1.8 GHz
» Kirin 620
   1.2 GHz
» Kirin 910
   1.6 GHz
» Intel Celeron 220
   1.2 GHz / 0.5 MB L2
» AMD GX-210JA
   1 GHz / 1 MB L2
» Apple A6x
   1.4 GHz
» Apple A6
   1 GHz
» Apple S5
   
» Intel Celeron 2.8
   2.8 GHz / 0.1 MB L2
» OMAP 4470
   1.5 GHz
» k3v2 Hi3620
   1.2 GHz
» RK3066
   1.5 GHz / 0.5 MB L2
» MP5232
   1.5 GHz
» Broadcom BCM21664T
   1.2 GHz
» AML8726-MX
   1.5 GHz / 0.5 MB L2
» OMAP 4460
   1.2 GHz
» RK3168
   1.2 GHz
» Broadcom BCM28155
   1.2 GHz
» OMAP 4430
   1 GHz
» Apple A5x
   1 GHz
» Apple A5
   1 GHz
» Samsung 9110
   1.15 GHz
» NovaThor U8500
   1 GHz
» NovaThor U8420
   1 GHz
» i.MX 6SLL
   1 GHz / 0.3 MB L2
» Qualcomm S2 MSM8255
   1.5 GHz
» RK2918 1.2 GHz
   1.2 GHz
» A10
   1.2 GHz
» Cortex A8 1.2 GHz
   1.2 GHz
» Apple A4
   1 GHz
» A13
   1 GHz
» WM8950
   1 GHz
» OMAP 3630 1GHz
   1 GHz
» OMAP 3622
   1 GHz
» RK2918
   1 GHz
» TCC8803 1GHz
   1 GHz
» ZiiLABS ZMS-08
   1 GHz
» Cortex A8
   1 GHz
» ATM7029
   1 GHz
» Loongson 2F
   0.9 GHz / 0.5 MB L2
» CSR8670
   0.08 GHz
» unknown
   

Surrounding CPUs

- Intel Core M 5Y70
   1.1 GHz / 0.5 MB + 4 MB
- Intel Gemini Lake N5000
   1.1 GHz / 4 MB
- AMD Kaveri FX-7500
   2.1 GHz / 4 MB
- Samsung Exynos 9825
   1.9 GHz / 0 MB
- Samsung Exynos 9820
   1.9 GHz / 0 MB
+ Samsung Exynos 9810
   0 GHz / KB
+ Qualcomm Snapdragon 850
   2.96 GHz / KB + 2048 KB
+ Qualcomm Snapdragon 845
   2.8 GHz / KB + 2048 KB
+ AMD Kaveri A10 Pro-7350B
   2.1 GHz / 4096 KB
+ Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G
   2.3 GHz / KB
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Klaus Hinum (Update: 2018-11- 1)