Comparison of HiSilicon Kirin 820 5G and HiSilicon Kirin 980

Attribute	HiSilicon Kirin 820 5G ×	HiSilicon Kirin 980 ×
General Information
Brand	HiSilicon	HiSilicon
Series	HiSilicon Kirin	HiSilicon Kirin
Model	HiSilicon Kirin 820 5G	HiSilicon Kirin 980
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	8	8
Frequency (GHz)	1.84	1.8
CPU Threads	8	8
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (Prime / big.LITTLE)
Hyperthreading	-	-
Overclocking	-	-
A core	4x Cortex-A76	2x Cortex-A76
B core	4x Cortex-A55	2x Cortex-A76
C core	-	4x Cortex-A55
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	2.36	1.9
Turbo (8 Cores) (GHz)	2.36	2.6
Encryption
AES-NI	+	+
Hardware codec support
JPEG	Decode / Encode	Decode / Encode
h264	Decode / Encode	Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	Decode / Encode	Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	Decode / Encode	Decode / Encode
VP8	Decode / Encode	Decode / Encode
AV1	No	No
VC-1	Decode / Encode	Decode / Encode
VP9	Decode / Encode	Decode / Encode
AVC	Decode / Encode	Decode / Encode
Internal Graphics
GPU name	ARM Mali-G57 MP6	ARM Mali-G76 MP10
GPU frequency (GHz)	0.85	0.72
Generation	0	0
DirectX Version	12	12
Execution units	6	10
Shader	96	160
Max. GPU Memory (GB)	4	4
Max. displays	2	2
GPU Release date (year)	2020	2018
Memory And PCIe
Memory type	LPDDR4X-2133	LPDDR4X-2133
Max. Memory (GB)	8	8
ECC	-	-
Memory channels	4	4
Technical details
Release date (year)	2019	2018
Technology (Nm)	7	7
Virtualization	none	none
L3-Cache (MB)	2	2
Architecture	ARM	ARM
Instruction set (ISA)	ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)	ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
TDP (PL1) (W)	6	6
Benchmarks
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)	579	520
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)	641	681
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	2,429	2,378