HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs Samsung Exynos 8890

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HiSilicon Kirin 960

Samsung Exynos 8890

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs. 8 cores 2300MHz Samsung Exynos 8890 . 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 0.2496 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (28.8GB/s vs 26.82GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2360MHz vs 2300MHz)

Released 11 months late

Samsung Exynos 8890 Advantages

More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 16nm)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 960 +21%

278916

Samsung Exynos 8890

228887

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 960 +26%

408

Samsung Exynos 8890

322

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 960 +55%

1385

Samsung Exynos 8890

890

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 960 +6%

265

Samsung Exynos 8890

249

HiSilicon Kirin 960

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Samsung Exynos 8890

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 2.3 GHz – Mongoose M1
4x 1.6 GHz – Cortex-A53

2360 MHz

Frequency

2300 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

4 MB

L2 cache

2 MB

16 nm

Process

14 nm

4

Transistor count

2

5 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G71 MP8

GPU name

Mali-T880 MP12

1037 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

8

Execution units

12

16

Shading units

16

4

Max size

4

0.2655 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2496 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

11.3

DirectX version

11.2

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4

1600 MHz

Memory frequency

1800 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

28.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

26.82 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

No

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

3840 x 2400

2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 24MP, 2x 12MP

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, 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 600 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Info

Oct 2016

Announced

Nov 2015

Flagship

Class

Flagship

Hi3660

Model number

SGA8890A

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Official page

Samsung Exynos 8890

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