HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs Samsung Exynos 1080

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs. 8 cores 2800MHz Samsung Exynos 1080 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 960 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 9W)

Samsung Exynos 1080 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.024 TFLOPS vs 0.2655 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (44GB/s vs 28.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2800MHz vs 2360MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 16nm)

Released 4 years and 1 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 960

408

Samsung Exynos 1080 +101%

822

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 960

1385

Samsung Exynos 1080 +115%

2980

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 960

265

Samsung Exynos 1080 +286%

1024

HiSilicon Kirin 960

VS

Samsung Exynos 1080

CPU

4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

1x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A78
3x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A78
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

2360 MHz

Frequency

2800 MHz

8

Cores

8

4 MB

L2 cache

-

L3 cache

0

16 nm

Process

5 nm

4

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

9 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G71 MP8

GPU name

Mali-G78 MP10

1037 MHz

GPU frequency

800 MHz

8

Execution units

10

16

Shading units

64

4

Max size

8

0.2655 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.024 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

11.3

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR5

1600 MHz

Memory frequency

2750 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

28.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

44 Gbit/s

AI

No

NPU

Neural Processor

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Processor

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

UFS 3.1

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

2960 x 1440

2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP, 2x 32MP

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, VP8, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7350 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3670 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Oct 2016

Announced

Nov 2020

Flagship

Class

Mid range

Hi3660

Model number

S5E9815

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Official page

Samsung Exynos 1080

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