HiSilicon Kirin 950 vs Samsung Exynos 7420

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HiSilicon Kirin 950

Samsung Exynos 7420

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2400MHz HiSilicon Kirin 950 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 950 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (25.6GB/s vs 24.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2400MHz vs 2100MHz)

Lower TDP (5W vs 7W)

Released 7 months late

Samsung Exynos 7420 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.1976 TFLOPS vs 0.1152 TFLOPS )

More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 16nm)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 950 +90%

372

Samsung Exynos 7420

195

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 950 +20%

1016

Samsung Exynos 7420

840

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 950

115

Samsung Exynos 7420 +71%

197

HiSilicon Kirin 950

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Samsung Exynos 7420

CPU

4x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

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

2400 MHz

Frequency

2100 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

-

L2 cache

512 KB

16 nm

Process

14 nm

2

Transistor count

2

5 W

TDP

7 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-T880 MP4

GPU name

Mali-T760 MP8

900 MHz

GPU frequency

772 MHz

4

Execution units

8

16

Shading units

16

4

Max size

4

0.1152 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1976 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.0

1.2

OpenCL version

1.2

11.2

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4

2x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

25.6 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

24.8 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

No

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

2560 x 1440

1x 21MP, 2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 24MP, 2x 16MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

Shannon 333

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

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

5

Wi-Fi

4

4.2

Bluetooth

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Nov 2015

Announced

Apr 2015

Flagship

Class

Flagship

Hi3650

Model number

-

Official page

Samsung Exynos 7420

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