HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs Samsung Exynos 9825

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HiSilicon Kirin 960

Samsung Exynos 9825

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs. 8 cores 2730MHz Samsung Exynos 9825 . 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 9W)

Samsung Exynos 9825 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.6515 TFLOPS vs 0.2655 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (33.4GB/s vs 28.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2730MHz vs 2360MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 16nm)

Released 2 years and 10 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 960

278916

Samsung Exynos 9825 +139%

668347

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 960

408

Samsung Exynos 9825 +64%

672

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 960

1385

Samsung Exynos 9825 +70%

2356

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 960

265

Samsung Exynos 9825 +145%

651

HiSilicon Kirin 960

VS

Samsung Exynos 9825

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.73 GHz – M4
2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A75
4x 1.95 GHz – Cortex-A55

2360 MHz

Frequency

2730 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

4 MB

L2 cache

2 MB

-

L3 cache

0

16 nm

Process

7 nm

4

Transistor count

8.5

5 W

TDP

9 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G71 MP8

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP12

1037 MHz

GPU frequency

754 MHz

8

Execution units

12

16

Shading units

36

4

Max size

12

0.2655 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.6515 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

33.4 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

2560 x 1600

Max display resolution

3840 x 2400

2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 16MP

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, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

Exynos 5100

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 20

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 2000 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 316 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Oct 2016

Announced

Aug 2019

Flagship

Class

Flagship

Hi3660

Model number

S5E9825

-

Official page

Samsung Exynos 9825

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