Latest revision as of 21:53, 9 December 2022

Kirin 980 is a 64-bit high-performance mobile ARM LTE SoC designed by HiSilicon and introduced in late 2018. Fabricated on TSMC's 7 nm process, the 980 incorporates four big Cortex-A76 cores operating at up to 2.6 GHz along with four little Cortex-A55 cores operating at up to 1.8 GHz. This SoC has an LTE modem supporting 1.4 Gbps download (Cat21), incorporates an ARM Mali-G76, and supports LPDDR4X-4266 memory.

Overview[edit]

Introduced at the 2018 IFA, the overall core organization has changed from the Kirin 970 which was introduced the previous year. The 980 features two high-performance big Cortex-A76 core operating at 2.6 GHz, 2 medium-performance big Cortex-A76 operating at 1.92 GHz, and four little Cortex-A55 cores operating at 1.8 GHz. Compared to the 970, the 980 features 40% power efficiency and 62.5% smaller die area due to the process shrink. The 980 ballooned to over 25% more transistors from 5.5 billion in the 970 to 6.9 billion. The 980 adds many enhancements, including a more powerful Mali G76 GPU and incorporates a new dual-neural processor designed for AI acceleration. The 980 has two improved ISPs and a more powerful LTE modem supporting up to User Equipment (UE) category 21 capable of reaching a maximum downlink of 1.4 Gbps.

Cache[edit]

Main articles: Cortex-A55 § Cache and Cortex-A76 § Cache

For the Cortex-A76:

[Edit/Modify Cache Info]

Cache Organization Cache is a hardware component containing a relatively small and extremely fast memory designed to speed up the performance of a CPU by preparing ahead of time the data it needs to read from a relatively slower medium such as main memory. The organization and amount of cache can have a large impact on the performance, power consumption, die size, and consequently cost of the IC. Cache is specified by its size, number of sets, associativity, block size, sub-block size, and fetch and write-back policies. Note: All units are in kibibytes and mebibytes.

L1$ 512 KiB 524,288 B 0.5 MiB L1I$ 256 KiB 262,144 B 0.25 MiB 4x64 KiB     L1D$ 256 KiB 262,144 B 0.25 MiB 4x64 KiB     L2$ 2 MiB 2,048 KiB 2,097,152 B 0.00195 GiB     4x512 KiB

For the Cortex-A55:

[Edit/Modify Cache Info]

Cache Organization Cache is a hardware component containing a relatively small and extremely fast memory designed to speed up the performance of a CPU by preparing ahead of time the data it needs to read from a relatively slower medium such as main memory. The organization and amount of cache can have a large impact on the performance, power consumption, die size, and consequently cost of the IC. Cache is specified by its size, number of sets, associativity, block size, sub-block size, and fetch and write-back policies. Note: All units are in kibibytes and mebibytes.

L1$ 256 KiB 262,144 B 0.25 MiB L1I$ 128 KiB 131,072 B 0.125 MiB 4x32 KiB     L1D$ 128 KiB 131,072 B 0.125 MiB 4x32 KiB     L2$ 512 KiB 0.5 MiB 524,288 B 4.882812e-4 GiB     4x128 KiB

Memory controller[edit]

The Kirin 980 supports 4-channel LPDDR4X up to 2133 MHz. Each channel supports at most two ranks.

[Edit/Modify Memory Info]

	Integrated Memory Controller
	Max Type LPDDR4X-4266 Supports ECC No Max Mem 8 GiB Controllers 1 Channels 4 Width 16 bit Max Bandwidth 31.78 GiB/s 32,542.72 MiB/s 34.124 GB/s 34,123.515 MB/s 0.031 TiB/s 0.0341 TB/s Bandwidth Double 15.89 GiB/s Quad 31.78 GiB/s

Graphics[edit]

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	Integrated Graphics Information
	GPU Mali-G76 Designer ARM Holdings Execution Units 10 Max Displays 2 Frequency 720 MHz 0.72 GHz 720,000 KHz Output DSI Standards DirectX 12 OpenCL 1.2 OpenGL ES 3.2 OpenVG 1.1 Vulkan 1.0

Wireless[edit]

• LTE Modem
  • DL: Up to User Equipment (UE) category 21
    • Downlink of up to 1.4 Gbps (4x4 MIMO + 256QAM 3CC CA = 1.2 Gbps, 2x2 MIMO + 256QAM + 1CC = 200 Mbps)
  • UL: Up to User Equipment (UE) category 18
    • Uplink of up to 200 Mbps (2x2 MIMO, 256-QAM, 1x20MHz CA)
• Wi-Fi 802.11 ac
• Bluetooth 5
• NFC
• GPS / A-GPS / GLONASS / BDS

Utilizing devices[edit]

• Huawei P30
• Huawei P30 Pro
• Huawei Mate 20
• Huawei Mate 20 Pro
• Huawei Mate 20 X
• Huawei Mate 20 X 5G
• Huawei Mate 20 RS Porsche Design
• Huawei Nova 5T
• Honor Magic 2
• Honor View 20 / V20
• Huawei Mate X
• Huawei Honor 20
• Huawei Honor 20 Pro
• Huawei Mediapad M6 8.4
• Huawei Mediapad M6 10.8
• Huawei Nova 5 Pro

Bibliography[edit]

• Huawei Kirin 980 Keynote, 2018 IFA