MediaTek Dimensity 8450 vs HiSilicon Kirin 980
SOC · Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
1x 3.25 GHz – Cortex-A7253x 3 GHz – Cortex-A7254x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A725
2x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A762x 1.92 GHz – Cortex-A764x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
Frequency
3250 MHz
2600 MHz
Cores
8
8
Instruction set
ARMv9.2-A
ARMv8.2-A
L2 cache
1 MB
0
L3 cache
6 MB
0
Process
4 nm
7 nm
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
L1 cache
—
512 KB
Transistor count
—
6.9
TDP
—
6 W
Graphics
GPU name
Mali-G720 MP7
Mali-G76 MP10
GPU frequency
1300 MHz
720 MHz
Shading units
128
36
Vulkan version
1.3
1.3
OpenCL version
3.2
2.0
DirectX version
12
12
Execution units
—
10
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR5X
LPDDR4X
Memory frequency
4266 MHz
2133 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
68.2 Gbit/s
34.1 Gbit/s
AI
NPU
MediaTek NPU 880
—
Multimedia (ISP)
Storage type
UFS 4.0
UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0
Max display resolution
2960 x 1440
3120 x 1440
Max camera resolution
1x 320MP, 3x 32MP
1x 48MP, 2x 20MP
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
4K at 30FPS
Video codecs
- H.264- H.265- AV1- VP9
H.264, H.265, VP9
Audio codecs
- AAC LC- FLAC- HE-AACv1- HE-AACv2- MP3
AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Neural processor (NPU)
—
Yes
Connectivity
5G support
Yes
No
Download speed
Up to 5170 Mbps
Up to 1400 Mbps
Wi-Fi
6
6
Bluetooth
6.0
5.0
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
4G support
—
LTE Cat. 21
Upload speed
—
Up to 200 Mbps
Info
Announced
May 2025
Aug 2018
Class
Mid range
Flagship
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
1,675,507
583,410
Geekbench 6
1,617
835
Geekbench 6
6,406
2,132
FP32 (float)
2,329
518
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.