HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs Samsung Exynos 2100

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs. 8 cores 2900MHz Samsung Exynos 2100 . 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 8W)

Samsung Exynos 2100 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.5304 TFLOPS vs 0.2655 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 28.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2900MHz vs 2360MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 16nm)

Released 4 years and 2 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 960

278916

Samsung Exynos 2100 +103%

567972

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 960

408

Samsung Exynos 2100 +261%

1474

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 960

1385

Samsung Exynos 2100 +140%

3334

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 960

265

Samsung Exynos 2100 +477%

1530

HiSilicon Kirin 960

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Samsung Exynos 2100

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 2.91 GHz – Cortex-X1
3x 2.81 GHz – Cortex-A78
4x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A55

2360 MHz

Frequency

2900 MHz

8

Cores

8

4 MB

L2 cache

-

16 nm

Process

5 nm

4

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

8 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G71 MP8

GPU name

Mali-G78 MP14

1037 MHz

GPU frequency

854 MHz

8

Execution units

14

16

Shading units

64

4

Max size

24

0.2655 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.5304 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

3200 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

28.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s

AI

No

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

UFS 3.1

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP, 2x 32MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

8K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

Exynos 5300

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, NAVIC

Info

Oct 2016

Announced

Dec 2020

Flagship

Class

Flagship

Hi3660

Model number

S5E9840

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Official page

Samsung Exynos 2100

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