HiSilicon Kirin 950 vs Samsung Exynos 8890

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

Higher Frequency (2400MHz vs 2300MHz)

Samsung Exynos 8890 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2496 TFLOPS vs 0.1152 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (26.82GB/s vs 25.6GB/s)

More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 16nm)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 950 +15%

372

Samsung Exynos 8890

322

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 950 +14%

1016

Samsung Exynos 8890

890

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 950

115

Samsung Exynos 8890 +116%

249

HiSilicon Kirin 950

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Samsung Exynos 8890

CPU

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

Architecture

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

2400 MHz

Frequency

2300 MHz

8

Cores

8

-

L2 cache

2 MB

16 nm

Process

14 nm

2

Transistor count

2

5 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-T880 MP4

GPU name

Mali-T880 MP12

900 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

4

Execution units

12

16

Shading units

16

4

Max size

4

0.1152 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2496 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.0

1.2

OpenCL version

1.2

11.2

DirectX version

11.2

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4

-

Memory frequency

1800 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

25.6 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

26.82 Gbit/s

AI

No

NPU

No

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

3840 x 2400

1x 21MP, 2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 24MP, 2x 12MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

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

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Info

Nov 2015

Announced

Nov 2015

Flagship

Class

Flagship

Hi3650

Model number

SGA8890A

-

Official page

Samsung Exynos 8890

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