HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs Samsung Exynos 980

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HiSilicon Kirin 960

Samsung Exynos 980

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs. 8 cores 2200MHz Samsung Exynos 980 . 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 0.2621 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2360MHz vs 2200MHz)

Lower TDP (5W vs 9W)

Samsung Exynos 980 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 28.8GB/s)

More modern manufacturing process (8nm vs 16nm)

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 960

278916

Samsung Exynos 980 +55%

433794

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 960

408

Samsung Exynos 980 +112%

869

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 960

1385

Samsung Exynos 980 +34%

1867

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 960 +1%

265

Samsung Exynos 980

262

HiSilicon Kirin 960

VS

Samsung Exynos 980

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A77
6x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55

2360 MHz

Frequency

2200 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

9 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G71 MP8

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP5

1037 MHz

GPU frequency

728 MHz

8

Execution units

5

16

Shading units

36

4

Max size

8

0.2655 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2621 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

2133 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

28.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

3360 x 1440

2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 108MP, 2x 20MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 120FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 120FPS

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

-

Modem

Exynos 5123

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 3550 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1380 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Oct 2016

Announced

Sep 2019

Flagship

Class

Mid range

Hi3660

Model number

S5E9630

-

Official page

Samsung Exynos 980

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