HiSilicon Kirin 980 high-end chipset is installed in mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, date of announcement 2018. The SoC produced by a 7 nm process. The chip has a octa-core configuration divided into three clusters. The first cluster ARM Cortex-A76 is the most high-performance with two cores working at 2.6 GHz. The second cluster ARM Cortex-A76 has two cores working at 2.0 GHz. The third ARM Cortex-A55 has four cores running at 1.8 GHz. The CPU can work with 64-bit data. Mali-G76 MP18 GPU works with graphics. Devices that have the Kirin 980 installed can work in LTE networks. Modem 21 allows you to download and send data at a speed 1400 MBit/s and 900 MBit/s. To understand Kirin 980 chip is good or bad from testing data and comparisons with other processors.
HiSilicon Kirin 980 specifications
General Info
Brand
HiSilicon
Name
Kirin 980
Model
Cortex-A76
Release date
2018
CPU configuration
2x2.6 GHz ARM Cortex-A76, 2x2.0 GHz ARM Cortex-A76, 4x1.8 GHz ARM Cortex-A55
Instruction set architecture
ARMv8-A
Frequency
2600 MHz
Cores
8
Word Size
64 bit
Process
7 nm
Transistor count
?
Technologies
AI Cambrian, Hi6403, Yueyin 2.0, GPU Turbo, coprocessor i7
Power consumption (TDP)
6 W
L1 cache
512 KB
L2 cache
512 KB
L3 cache
4 MB
Graphics
GPU
Mali-G76 MP18
Frequency
950 MHz
Cores
18
Process
7 nm
Memory
Type
LPDDR4x
Frequency
1600 MHz
Max volume
8 Gb
Internal type
eMMC 5.1
Memory bandwidth
31.78 GB/s
Memory bus
4x 16 Bit
Connectivity
Modem
21
Download speed
1400 MBit/s
Upload speed
900 MBit/s
LTE Cat
Cat-21 DL/Cat-14 UL
Wi-Fi ranges
a/b/g/n/ac
Location
GPS,Galileo,Glonass,Beidou
Wi-Fi ver.
6
Bluetooth ver.
5
Cameras
Main camera max resolution
32 MPix
Codecs
4096 x 2160, max FPS 60. Codec: H.264, H.265/HEVC
Display and Audio
Maximum Display resolution
2560 x 1600 pix
Video encoding
Resolution 4K, 2K, FullHD, max FPS 60. Codec: H.264, H.265/HEVC
