HiSilicon Kirin 9020 vs Samsung Exynos 7870

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HiSilicon Kirin 9020

Samsung Exynos 7870

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2500MHz HiSilicon Kirin 9020 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 9020 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2500MHz vs 1600MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)

Released 8 years and 10 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 9020 +839%

1616

Samsung Exynos 7870

172

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 9020 +973%

5314

Samsung Exynos 7870

495

HiSilicon Kirin 9020

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Samsung Exynos 7870

CPU

1x 2.5 GHz – TaiShan
3x 2.15 GHz – TaiShan
4x 1.6 GHz – TaiShan

Architecture

8x 1.6 GHz – Cortex-A53

2500 MHz

Frequency

1600 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

5 MB

L2 cache

-

10 MB

L3 cache

-

7 nm

Process

14 nm

-

Transistor count

2

-

TDP

3 W

SMIC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Maleoon 920

GPU name

Mali-T830 MP1

840 MHz

GPU frequency

700 MHz

4

Execution units

1

-

Shading units

16

Max size

4

-

FLOPS

0.0224 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.0

-

OpenCL version

1.2

-

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR5

Memory type

LPDDR3

2750 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

1x 32 Bit

44 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Da Vinci

Neural processor (NPU)

No

UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

1920 x 1200

-

Max camera resolution

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

1K at 60FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

1080p at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8

AAC, 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 2500 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.2

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Dec 2024

Announced

Feb 2016

Flagship

Class

Low end

-

Official page

Samsung Exynos 7870

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