HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs Samsung Exynos 8890

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 659 vs. 8 cores 2300MHz Samsung Exynos 8890 . 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 2300MHz)

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Samsung Exynos 8890 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2496 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )

More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 16nm)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 659

103952

Samsung Exynos 8890 +120%

228887

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 659

215

Samsung Exynos 8890 +49%

322

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 659

810

Samsung Exynos 8890 +9%

890

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 659

57

Samsung Exynos 8890 +336%

249

HiSilicon Kirin 659

VS

Samsung Exynos 8890

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 2.3 GHz – Mongoose M1
4x 1.6 GHz – Cortex-A53

2360 MHz

Frequency

2300 MHz

8

Cores

8

-

L2 cache

2 MB

16 nm

Process

14 nm

4

Transistor count

2

-

TDP

5 W

-

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-T830 MP2

GPU name

Mali-T880 MP12

900 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

2

Execution units

12

16

Shading units

16

4

Max size

4

0.0576 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2496 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.0

1.2

OpenCL version

1.2

11

DirectX version

11.2

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR4

933 MHz

Memory frequency

1800 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

26.82 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

3840 x 2400

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

Max camera resolution

1x 24MP, 2x 12MP

1K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 7

4G support

LTE Cat. 13

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

4

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Info

Jan 2017

Announced

Nov 2015

Mid range

Class

Flagship

Hi6250

Model number

SGA8890A

-

Official page

Samsung Exynos 8890

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