HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs Samsung Exynos 7420

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs. 8 cores 2100MHz Samsung Exynos 7420 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 659 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2360MHz vs 2100MHz)

Released 1 years and 9 months late

Samsung Exynos 7420 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.1976 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )

More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 16nm)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 659

103952

Samsung Exynos 7420 +97%

205159

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 659 +10%

215

Samsung Exynos 7420

195

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 659

810

Samsung Exynos 7420 +3%

840

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 659

57

Samsung Exynos 7420 +245%

197

HiSilicon Kirin 659

VS

Samsung Exynos 7420

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A57
4x 1.5 GHz – Cortex-A53

2360 MHz

Frequency

2100 MHz

8

Cores

8

-

L2 cache

512 KB

16 nm

Process

14 nm

4

Transistor count

2

-

TDP

7 W

-

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-T830 MP2

GPU name

Mali-T760 MP8

900 MHz

GPU frequency

772 MHz

2

Execution units

8

16

Shading units

16

4

Max size

4

0.0576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1976 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.0

1.2

OpenCL version

1.2

11

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR4

933 MHz

Memory frequency

-

2x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

24.8 Gbit/s

AI

No

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

No

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

1920 x 1200

Max display resolution

2560 x 1440

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

Max camera resolution

1x 24MP, 2x 16MP

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

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

Shannon 333

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 7

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 450 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

4

Wi-Fi

4

4.2

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Jan 2017

Announced

Apr 2015

Mid range

Class

Flagship

Hi6250

Model number

-

Official page

Samsung Exynos 7420

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