HiSilicon Kirin 950 vs Samsung Exynos 980

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HiSilicon Kirin 950

Samsung Exynos 980

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2400MHz HiSilicon Kirin 950 vs. 8 cores 2200MHz Samsung Exynos 980 . 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 2200MHz)

Lower TDP (5W vs 9W)

Samsung Exynos 980 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2621 TFLOPS vs 0.1152 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 25.6GB/s)

More modern manufacturing process (8nm vs 16nm)

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 950

372

Samsung Exynos 980 +133%

869

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 950

1016

Samsung Exynos 980 +83%

1867

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 950

115

Samsung Exynos 980 +127%

262

HiSilicon Kirin 950

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Samsung Exynos 980

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A77
6x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55

2400 MHz

Frequency

2200 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

16 nm

Process

8 nm

2

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

9 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-T880 MP4

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP5

900 MHz

GPU frequency

728 MHz

4

Execution units

5

16

Shading units

36

4

Max size

8

0.1152 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2621 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.3

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11.2

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4X

-

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

25.6 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

3360 x 1440

1x 21MP, 2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 108MP, 2x 20MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 120FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 120FPS

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

-

Modem

Exynos 5123

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 3550 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1380 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Nov 2015

Announced

Sep 2019

Flagship

Class

Mid range

Hi3650

Model number

S5E9630

-

Official page

Samsung Exynos 980

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