Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c vs HiSilicon Kirin 985 5G. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• CPU group
  Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c HiSilicon Kirin 980
• Family
  Qualcomm Snapdragon HiSilicon Kirin
• Generation
  2 7
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Successor
  Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c Gen 2 -

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• A-Core
  2x Kryo 468 Gold 1x Cortex-A76
• B-Core
  6x Kryo 468 Silver 3x Cortex-A76
• Base Frequency
  2.4 GHz 1.84 GHz
• C-Core
  - 4x Cortex-A55
• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) hybrid (Prime / big.LITTLE)
• CPU Cores
  8 8
• CPU Threads
  8 8
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  2.4 GHz 2.4 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (8 Cores)
  2.4 GHz 2.58 GHz

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• DirectX Version
  12.1 12
• Execution units
  0 8
• Generation
  6 Vallhall 1
• GPU Frequency
  700 MHz 800 MHz
• GPU name
  Qualcomm Adreno 618 ARM Mali-G77 MP8
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo No turbo
• Max. displays
  2 1
• Max. GPU Memory
  4 GB 4 GB
• Release date
  Q2/2019 Q2/2019
• Shader
  128 128
• Technology
  14 nm 7 nm

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• AV1
  No Decode
• H.264 / AVC
  Conflicting source values: Decode | Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode Decode / Encode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode / Encode
• VP8
  Decode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  Decode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by HiSilicon Kirin 985 5G and Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  2 4
• Memory type
  LPDDR4X-2133 LPDDR4X-2133

• AES-NI
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c and HiSilicon Kirin 985 5G Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c and HiSilicon Kirin 985 5G, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Kryo 468 Cortex-A76 / Cortex-A55
• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv8-A64 (64 bit) ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
• Part Number
  SC7180 Hi6290
• Release date
  2020 Q2/2020
• Technology
  8 nm 7 nm
• Virtualization
  None None