Who is better, Snapdragon 845 or Kirin 980? What's the difference

Kirin 980 adopts more advanced TSMC 7nm process, and Snapdragon 845 adopts TSMC previous generation 10nm process. Therefore, Kirin 980 should be more advanced in technology, about one generation ahead of Snapdragon 845. More advanced technology can achieve lower power consumption and higher energy efficiency ratio, so the overall performance will also be improved.

The CPU of Kirin 980 adopts the more advanced a76 architecture of arm, and Snapdragon 845 adopts the a75 architecture of the previous generation. The a76 architecture is far superior to the previous generation a75 architecture in performance, and it is about 40% stronger than the previous generation a75 architecture in geekbench running score. The running score of Kirin 980 is also higher than that of Snapdragon 845, which is much better whether it is single-core or multi-core. Therefore, Kirin 980 far exceeds Snapdragon 845 in CPU performance. The better the CPU performance, the smoother the daily use. Kirin 980 is much better than Snapdragon 845 in the fluency of daily use, and the speed of opening various applications is also faster.

Kirin 980 is slightly behind Xiaolong 845 on GPU. Snapdragon 845 adopted its own Adreno? 630, and Kirin 980 uses arm's mali? G76mp 10, the GPU performance of Kirin 980 is still not as good as that of Snapdragon 845. From Ann Bunny's running score, we can see that Kirin 980' s running score is more than 10,000 points lower than that of Snapdragon 845, with a difference of about 10%. But thanks to the fact that Kirin 980 has a GPU? Turbo, so the performance in the game experience is still good. This function can improve the game performance and reduce the game heat.

Kirin 980 integrates NPU for artificial intelligence operation, while Snapdragon 845 has no NPU, so Kirin 980? Huawei's ai running score is much higher than Snapdragon's 845. The higher the ai score, the smarter the processor and the better the ai algorithm can be. For example, Huawei's ai photographers use ai to realize intelligent scene recognition to modify pictures, so that the overall look and feel of the pictures is better, which is also a good reason for Huawei's mobile phone to take pictures. Kirin 980 has excellent npu, which can be fully displayed by ai photographers.

On the whole, Kirin 980 is about 30% better in CPU performance than Snapdragon 845, and only about 10% behind in GPU, so I think Kirin 980 has better performance.