HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

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Which processor is better? We compared HiSilicon Kirin 980 with HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G. Compare, analyze the specifications. Find out their scores in popular benchmarks (AnTuTu 10, GeekBench 6 Single-Core, GeekBench 6 Multi-Core) and who is the winner?

CPU cores and architecture

Architecture	2x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A76 2x 1.92 GHz – Cortex-A76 4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55	2x 2.86 GHz – Cortex-A76 2x 2.09 GHz – Cortex-A76 4x 1.86 GHz – Cortex-A55
Number of cores	8	8
Instruction Set	ARMv8-A	ARMv8.2-A
Lithography	7 nm	7 nm
Number of transistors	6900 million	8000 million
TDP	6 Watt	6 Watt
Neural Processing	HiSilicon Dual NPU	Ascend Lite + Ascend Tiny, HUAWEI Da Vinci Architecture, HiAI 2.0

Memory (RAM)

Max amount	up to 8 GB	up to 12 GB
Memory type	LPDDR4X	LPDDR4X
Memory frequency	2133 MHz	2133 MHz
Memory-bus	4x16 bit	4x16 bit

Storage

Storage specification

UFS 2.1

UFS 3.0

Graphics

GPU name	Mali-G76 MP10	Mali-G76 MP16
GPU Architecture	Bifrost	Bifrost
GPU frequency	720 MHz	600 MHz
Execution units	10	16
Shaders	160	256
DirectX	12	12
OpenCL API	2.1	2.0
OpenGL API	ES 3.2
Vulkan API	1.2	1.1

Camera, Video, Display

Max screen resolution	3120x1440	3360x1440@60Hz
Max camera resolution	1x 48MP, 2x 32MP
Max Video Capture	4K@30fps	4K@60fps
Video codec support	AV1 H.264 (AVC) H.265 (HEVC) VP8 VP9	H.264 (AVC) H.265 (HEVC) VC-1 VP8 VP9

Wireless

4G network	Yes	Yes
5G network	Yes	Yes
Peak Download Speed	1.4 Gbps
Peak Upload Speed	0.2 Gbps
Wi-Fi	6 (802.11ax)	6 (802.11ax)
Bluetooth	5.0	5.0
Satellite navigation	BeiDou GPS Galileo GLONASS	BeiDou GPS Galileo GLONASS