HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs Samsung Exynos 850

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HiSilicon Kirin 960

Samsung Exynos 850

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs. 8 cores 2000MHz Samsung Exynos 850 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 960 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2655 TFLOPS vs 0.0394 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2360MHz vs 2000MHz)

Samsung Exynos 850 Advantages

More modern manufacturing process (8nm vs 16nm)

Lower TDP (3W vs 5W)

Released 3 years and 7 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 960 +41%

278916

Samsung Exynos 850

197221

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 960 +82%

408

Samsung Exynos 850

223

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 960 +59%

1385

Samsung Exynos 850

871

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 960 +579%

265

Samsung Exynos 850

39

HiSilicon Kirin 960

VS

Samsung Exynos 850

CPU

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

Architecture

8x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

2360 MHz

Frequency

2000 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

4 MB

L2 cache

-

16 nm

Process

8 nm

4

Transistor count

-

5 W

TDP

3 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G71 MP8

GPU name

Mali-G52 MP1

1037 MHz

GPU frequency

820 MHz

8

Execution units

1

16

Shading units

24

4

Max size

8

0.2655 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0394 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

11.3

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1600 MHz

Memory frequency

1866 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

28.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

-

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

No

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

2520 x 1080

2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP, 2x 16MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

1K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

1080p at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 13

No

5G support

No

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 150 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

Oct 2016

Announced

May 2020

Flagship

Class

Low end

Hi3660

Model number

S5E3830

-

Official page

Samsung Exynos 850

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