Snapdragon Qualcomm 8 Plus Gen 1 vs HiSilicon Kirin 980

Compared 2 processors: Snapdragon Qualcomm 8 Plus Gen 1, vs HiSilicon Kirin 980. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Snapdragon Qualcomm 8 Plus Gen 1 and HiSilicon Kirin 980
Processor Performance
Single-Core Benchmark Score
Gaming Performance
Graphics and OpenCL/Vulkan tests
Energy Efficiency
Chip Power Efficiency
NanoReview Score
Overall score by NanoReview

Tests & specs

Specs & test comparison

Benchmarks

CPU performance comparison across tasks
AnTuTu 10
AnTuTu 10
Snapdragon Qualcomm 8 Plus Gen 1
1299948
HiSilicon Kirin 980
591752
CPU351855193866
GPU487080159831
Memory213520114872
UX247493123183
NanoReview Score1299948591752
3DMark Wild Life
3DMark Wild Life
Snapdragon Qualcomm 8 Plus Gen 1
7655
HiSilicon Kirin 980
2477
Stability46 %48 %
Graphics Test45 fps14 fps
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Snapdragon Qualcomm 8 Plus Gen 1
1767
HiSilicon Kirin 980
834
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Snapdragon Qualcomm 8 Plus Gen 1
4591
HiSilicon Kirin 980
2128
File Compression195.5 MB/s94.5 MB/s
HTML5 Browser118.1 pages/s50.7 pages/s
PDF Rendering175.1 MP/sec62.5 MP/sec
Background Blur16.5 frames/s6.54 frames/s
Photo Processing34 frames/s18.5 frames/s
Image Detection117.5 frames/s48 frames/s
HDR146.3 MP/sec54.4 MP/sec
Ray Tracing5.31 MP/sec2.59 MP/sec

Games

Graphics in popular 3D games
PUBGPUBG Mobile 89 FPS (Ultra) 56 FPS (Ultra)
CODCall of Duty: Mobile 60 FPS (Ultra) 39 FPS (Ultra)
FortniteFortnite 47 FPS (Ultra) 28 FPS (High)
Shadow LegendsShadowgun Legends 114 FPS (Ultra) 51 FPS (Ultra)
World of Tanks BlitzWorld of Tanks Blitz 120 FPS (Ultra) 60 FPS (Ultra)
Mobile Legends: Bang BangGenshin Impact 58 FPS (Ultra) 60 FPS (Ultra)
Genshin ImpactMobile Legends: Bang Bang 56 FPS (Ultra) n/a
Device ZTE Nubia Red Magic 7S Pro (1080x2400) Huawei Nova 5T (1080x2340)

Processor

Architecture - 1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X2
- 3x 2.75 GHz – Cortex-A710
- 4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A510
- 2/2.6 (Cortex-A76)
- 2/1.92 (Cortex-A76)
- 4/1.8 (Cortex-A55)
Process TSMC TSMC
Cores count 8 8
Frequency 3200 2600
Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8.2-A
L1 cache n/a 512 KB
L2 cache 1 MB 4 MB
L3 Cache 6 MB n/a
Process tech. 4 nm 7 nm
Transistor count n/a 6.9 billion
Power (TDP) 6 W 6 W

Graphics

GPU specifications including architecture, frequency, compute units, and support for graphics APIs (Vulkan, OpenCL, DirectX).
GPU Model Adreno 730 Mali-G76 MP10
Architecture Adreno 700 Bifrost 3rd gen
GPU Frequency 900 MHz 720 MHz
Execution Units 2 10
Shader Units 512 24
Total shader 1024 240
FLOPS 1843.2 GFLOPS 345.6 GFLOPS
Vulkan 1.1 1.3
OpenCL 2.0 2.0
DirectX 12.1 n/a

AI Acceleration

Specifications of the neural processor (NPU / DSP) responsible for machine learning and AI acceleration tasks.
Artificial Intelligence Hexagon Yes

Memory

RAM
Memory Type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
Memory Frequency 3200 MHz 2133 MHz
Bus 4x16 bit 4x16 bit
Bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 34.1 Gbit/s
Max RAM 24 GB 8 GB

Multimedia

GPU, ISP capabilities, display and camera support, as well as audio and video codec compatibility.
Memory Type UFS 3.1 - UFS 2.1
- UFS 3.0
Max. resolution 3840x2160 pixels 3120x1440 pixels
Camera 1x200 pixels 1x48 pixels
Video recording 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 30FPS
Video quality 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 30FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- VP8
- VP9
- H.264
- H.265
- VP9
Audio codecs - AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Connectivity

Modem Snapdragon X65 n/a
4G Support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 21
5G Support Yes No
Download speed Up to 10000 MB/s Up to 1400 MB/s
Upload speed Up to 3670 MB/s Up to 200 MB/s
Wi-Fi version 6 6
Bluetooth version 5.3 5.0
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- SBAS
- NAVIC
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo

Other

Announced May, 2022 yr August, 2018 yr
Class Flagship Flagship
Codename SM8475 n/a

Results

After analyzing the data, we consider Snapdragon Qualcomm 8 Plus Gen 1 the clear winner in this comparison.

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