HiSilicon Kirin 955 vs Samsung Exynos 9609

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HiSilicon Kirin 955

Samsung Exynos 9609

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2500MHz HiSilicon Kirin 955 vs. 8 cores 2200MHz Samsung Exynos 9609 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 955 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.1152 TFLOPS vs 0.0918 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2500MHz vs 2200MHz)

Lower TDP (5W vs 9W)

Samsung Exynos 9609 Advantages

More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 16nm)

Released 3 years and 1 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 955

299

Samsung Exynos 9609 +21%

362

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 955

1040

Samsung Exynos 9609 +15%

1197

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 955 +26%

115

Samsung Exynos 9609

91

HiSilicon Kirin 955

VS

Samsung Exynos 9609

CPU

4x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

4x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 1.6 GHz – Cortex-A53

2500 MHz

Frequency

2200 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

16 nm

Process

10 nm

-

Transistor count

3

5 W

TDP

9 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-T880 MP4

GPU name

Mali-G72 MP3

900 MHz

GPU frequency

850 MHz

4

Execution units

3

16

Shading units

18

4

Max size

4

0.1152 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0918 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

1600 MHz

2x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

11.9 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

1920 x 1080

Max display resolution

2560 x 1600

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 24MP, 2x 16MP

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

AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

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

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Apr 2016

Announced

May 2019

Flagship

Class

Mid range

-

Model number

S5E9609

-

Official page

Samsung Exynos 9609

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