HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs Samsung Exynos 2500

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HiSilicon Kirin 960

Samsung Exynos 2500

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs. 10 cores 3200MHz Samsung Exynos 2500 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Samsung Exynos 2500 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (76.8GB/s vs 28.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3200MHz vs 2360MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 16nm)

Released 8 years and 3 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 960

278916

Samsung Exynos 2500 +803%

2519784

HiSilicon Kirin 960

VS

Samsung Exynos 2500

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X5
3x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A730
2x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A730
4x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A520

2360 MHz

Frequency

3200 MHz

8

Cores

10

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv9.2-A

4 MB

L2 cache

-

16 nm

Process

3 nm

4

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G71 MP8

GPU name

-

1037 MHz

GPU frequency

-

8

Execution units

-

16

Shading units

-

4

Max size

24

0.2655 TFLOPS

FLOPS

-

1.3

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

11.3

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR5T

1600 MHz

Memory frequency

4800 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

28.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

76.8 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

UFS 4.0

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

-

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1

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 150 Mbps

Upload speed

-

5

Wi-Fi

7

4.2

Bluetooth

5.4

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC

Info

Oct 2016

Announced

Jan 2025

Flagship

Class

Flagship

Hi3660

Model number

-

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