The Kirin 980 is the world’s first SoC to be based on the new and powerful Cortex-A 76 architecture, which improves a lot on single core performance. And we can see that the Kirin 980 scores higher than the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 but is on par with the Exynos 9810. Means the Cortex-A-76 is as good as Samsung’s Mongoose M3? Day-to-day tasks will be a breeze on these phones and so will be gaming, but still moving ahead with the specs these three top of the line processors are based on are given below in the table, along with their single and multi-core performance
| Processor | Snapdragon 845 | Kirin 980 | Exynos 9810 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CPU | 4 Kryo 385 Gold Cortex-A75 Cores 2.8 GHz & 4 Kryo 385 Silver Cortex-A55 Cores 1.7 GHz | 2 Cores Cortex-A76 2.6GHz 2 Cores Cortex-A76 1.92GHz 4 Cores Cortex-A5 1.8GHz |
Octa-core 4 Cores 2.7 GHz Mongoose M3 & 4 Cores 1.8 GHz Cortex-A55 |
| GPU | Adreno 640 850MHz+, 550 gflop/s+ | Mali-G76 GPU 20% better compared to Mali-G72 | Mali-G72 MP18 850 MHz |
| Modem | X20 LTE 800mbps to 1Gbps | LTE Cat.21 1.4 Gbps | Cat.18/13 LTE 1.2 Gbps |
| Manufacturing process | 10nm | 7nm | 10 nm |
| Average Geek-bench 4.0 Benchmarks (Benchmarks varies as per different phones) |
Single-Core: 2429
Multi-Core: 8451 |
Single-Core: 3389
Multi-Core: 8992 |
Single Core: 3668
Multi-Core: 9002 |
| Popular Smartphones using it | All 2018 Flagships | Xiaomi Mi 8 SE, Mi Max 3? | Galaxy S9+, Galaxy Note 9 |
| Quick Charge | Quick Charge 4+ | Huawei’s Proprietary fast charging | Adaptive fast charging |
| Gaming Performance | Excellent | Excellent | Excellent |
| Everyday Task Handling | 10/10 | 10/10 | 10/10 |
| Power usage | 8.6/10 | 8.9/10 | 8.7/10 |
