Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 vs HiSilicon Kirin 980. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  Qualcomm Snapdragon HiSilicon Kirin
• CPU group
  Qualcomm Snapdragon SQ1/SQ2 HiSilicon Kirin 980
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  1 7

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) hybrid (Prime / big.LITTLE)
• Frequency
  1.80 GHz 1.80 GHz
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.00 GHz 1.90 GHz
• Turbo (8 Cores)
  3.00 GHz 2.60 GHz
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No

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

• GPU name
  Qualcomm Adreno 685 ARM Mali-G76 MP10
• GPU frequency
  0.25 GHz 0.72 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  0.65 GHz No turbo
• Execution units
  8 10
• Shader
  1536 160
• Max. GPU Memory
  4 GB 4 GB
• Max. displays
  2 2
• Generation
  5 Bifrost 3
• Technology
  7 nm 7 nm
• Release date
  Q4/2018 Q3/2018

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

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h264
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP8
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  Decode Decode / Encode
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode / Encode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by HiSilicon Kirin 980 and Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR4X-2133 LPDDR4X-2133
• Max. Memory
  16 GB 8 GB
• Memory channels
  1 4
• ECC
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 and HiSilicon Kirin 980 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  7 W 6 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1 and Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ1, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv8-A64 (64 bit) ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
• L3-Cache
  2.00 MB 2.00 MB
• Architecture
  Kryo 495 Cortex-A76 / Cortex-A55
• Technology
  7 nm 7 nm
• Virtualization
  None None
• Socket
  N/A N/A
• Release date
  Q3/2019 Q4/2018