HiSilicon Kirin 820 vs Samsung Exynos 7870

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 820 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 820 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.6528 TFLOPS vs 0.0224 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2360MHz vs 1600MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)

Released 4 years and 1 months late

Samsung Exynos 7870 Advantages

Lower TDP (3W vs 5W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 820 +240%

498005

Samsung Exynos 7870

146176

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 820 +2863%

652

Samsung Exynos 7870

22

HiSilicon Kirin 820

VS

Samsung Exynos 7870

CPU

1x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A76
3x 2.22 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

8x 1.6 GHz – Cortex-A53

2360 MHz

Frequency

1600 MHz

8

Cores

8

7 nm

Process

14 nm

-

Transistor count

2

5 W

TDP

3 W

-

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G57 MP6

GPU name

Mali-T830 MP1

850 MHz

GPU frequency

700 MHz

6

Execution units

1

64

Shading units

16

12

Max size

4

0.6528 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0224 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

12

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR3

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

1x 32 Bit

31.78 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

-

AI

Yes

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

No

UFS 2.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

3360 x 1440

Max display resolution

1920 x 1200

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

1K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

1080p at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Balong 5000

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 4600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 200 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.1

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Mar 2020

Announced

Feb 2016

Mid range

Class

Low end

-

Official page

Samsung Exynos 7870

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