HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs Samsung Exynos 7870

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs. 8 cores 1600MHz Samsung Exynos 7870 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 659 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.0576 TFLOPS vs 0.0224 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2360MHz vs 1600MHz)

Released 11 months late

Samsung Exynos 7870 Advantages

More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 16nm)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 659

103952

Samsung Exynos 7870 +40%

146176

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 659 +25%

215

Samsung Exynos 7870

172

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 659 +63%

810

Samsung Exynos 7870

495

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 659 +159%

57

Samsung Exynos 7870

22

HiSilicon Kirin 659

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Samsung Exynos 7870

CPU

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

Architecture

8x 1.6 GHz – Cortex-A53

2360 MHz

Frequency

1600 MHz

8

Cores

8

16 nm

Process

14 nm

4

Transistor count

2

-

TDP

3 W

-

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-T830 MP2

GPU name

Mali-T830 MP1

900 MHz

GPU frequency

700 MHz

2

Execution units

1

16

Shading units

16

4

Max size

4

0.0576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0224 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.0

1.2

OpenCL version

1.2

11

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR3

933 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

1x 32 Bit

AI

No

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

No

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

1920 x 1200

Max display resolution

1920 x 1200

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

Max camera resolution

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

1K at 60FPS

Video capture

1K at 60FPS

1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

1080p at 60FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 7

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

4

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Jan 2017

Announced

Feb 2016

Mid range

Class

Low end

Hi6250

Model number

-

Official page

Samsung Exynos 7870

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