HiSilicon Kirin 980

The Kirin 980 is one of HiSilicon flagship CPU. It has 8 cores and was announced in 2018 Quarter 4. It has "top.big.LITTLE" cores-set: 2x Cortex-A76, 2x Cortex-A76 (1.92 GHz), 4x Cortex-A55 (1.8 GHz). The processor is manufactured using a 7 nm process technology and supports UFS 2.1, 4G, LPDDR4X.

AnTuTu 10

Total Score

Kirin 980

484026

GeekBench 6 Single-Core

Score

Kirin 980

698

GeekBench 6 Multi-Core

Score

Kirin 980

2482

CPU cores and architecture

Architecture	2x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A76 2x 1.92 GHz – Cortex-A76 4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
Number of cores	8
Instruction Set	ARMv8-A
Lithography	7 nm
Number of transistors	6900 million
TDP	6 Watt
Neural Processing	HiSilicon Dual NPU

Memory (RAM)

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

Storage

Storage specification

UFS 2.1

Graphics

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

Camera, Video, Display

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

Wireless

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