HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs Samsung Exynos 1280

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HiSilicon Kirin 659

Samsung Exynos 1280

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs. 8 cores 2400MHz Samsung Exynos 1280 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Samsung Exynos 1280 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.487 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2400MHz vs 2360MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 16nm)

Released 5 years and 2 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 659

103952

Samsung Exynos 1280 +362%

481288

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 659

215

Samsung Exynos 1280 +296%

852

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 659

810

Samsung Exynos 1280 +137%

1927

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 659

57

Samsung Exynos 1280 +754%

487

HiSilicon Kirin 659

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Samsung Exynos 1280

CPU

4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A78
6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

2360 MHz

Frequency

2400 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

16 nm

Process

5 nm

4

Transistor count

-

TDP

6 W

-

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-T830 MP2

GPU name

Mali-G68 MP4

900 MHz

GPU frequency

1000 MHz

2

Execution units

4

16

Shading units

48

4

Max size

8

0.0576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.487 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.3

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR4X

933 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

17 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

UFS 2.2

1920 x 1200

Max display resolution

2960 x 1440

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

Max camera resolution

1x 108MP

1K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

4K 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

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 7

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 2550 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1840 Mbps

4

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Jan 2017

Announced

Mar 2022

Mid range

Class

Mid range

Hi6250

Model number

S5E8825

-

Official page

Samsung Exynos 1280

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