HiSilicon Kirin 980

Kirin 980 is one of HiSilicon flagship CPU. It was announced in 2018 Quarter 4. 2x Cortex-A76, 2x Cortex-A76 (1.92 GHz), 4x Cortex-A55 (1.8 GHz). and supports UFS 2.1, 4G, LPDDR4X.
HiSilicon Kirin 980

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 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

Supplemental Information

Launch Date 2018 Quarter 4
Vertical Segment Mobiles
Positioning Flagship

AnTuTu 10

Total Score
Kirin 980
484026

GeekBench 6 Single-Core

Score
Kirin 980
698

GeekBench 6 Multi-Core

Score
Kirin 980
2482

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