HiSilicon Kirin 655 vs Samsung Exynos 2500

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2120MHz HiSilicon Kirin 655 vs. 10 cores 3200MHz Samsung Exynos 2500 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Samsung Exynos 2500 Advantages

Higher Frequency (3200MHz vs 2120MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 16nm)

Released 8 years and 1 months late

Score

HiSilicon Kirin 655

VS

Samsung Exynos 2500

CPU

4x 2.12 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X5
3x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A730
2x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A730
4x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A520

2120 MHz

Frequency

3200 MHz

8

Cores

10

16 nm

Process

3 nm

4

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

-

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-T830 MP2

GPU name

-

900 MHz

GPU frequency

-

2

Execution units

-

16

Shading units

-

4

Max size

24

0.0576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

-

1.0

Vulkan version

-

1.2

OpenCL version

-

11

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR5T

933 MHz

Memory frequency

4800 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

76.8 Gbit/s

AI

No

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

UFS 4.0

1920 x 1200

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

Max camera resolution

-

1K at 60FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 7

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

-

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

-

4

Wi-Fi

7

4.1

Bluetooth

5.4

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC

Info

Dec 2016

Announced

Jan 2025

Mid range

Class

Flagship

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