HiSilicon Kirin 655 vs Samsung Exynos 990

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HiSilicon Kirin 655

Samsung Exynos 990

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2120MHz HiSilicon Kirin 655 vs. 8 cores 2730MHz Samsung Exynos 990 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 655 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 9W)

Samsung Exynos 990 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.126 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2730MHz vs 2120MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 16nm)

Released 2 years and 10 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 655

189

Samsung Exynos 990 +345%

842

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 655

694

Samsung Exynos 990 +285%

2672

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 655

57

Samsung Exynos 990 +1875%

1126

HiSilicon Kirin 655

VS

Samsung Exynos 990

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.73 GHz – Exynos M5
2x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

2120 MHz

Frequency

2730 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

-

L2 cache

1 MB

-

L3 cache

0

16 nm

Process

7 nm

4

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

9 W

-

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-T830 MP2

GPU name

Mali-G77 MP11

900 MHz

GPU frequency

800 MHz

2

Execution units

11

16

Shading units

64

4

Max size

16

0.0576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.126 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.3

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR5

933 MHz

Memory frequency

2750 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

44 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

1920 x 1200

Max display resolution

3840 x 2400

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

Max camera resolution

1x 108MP, 2x 25MP

1K at 60FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

Exynos 5123

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 7

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7350 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3670 Mbps

4

Wi-Fi

6

4.1

Bluetooth

5.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Dec 2016

Announced

Oct 2019

Mid range

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

S5E9830

-

Official page

Samsung Exynos 990

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