HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs Samsung Exynos 1080

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs. 8 cores 2800MHz Samsung Exynos 1080 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Samsung Exynos 1080 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.024 TFLOPS vs 0.3318 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (44GB/s vs 29.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2800MHz vs 2360MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 10nm)

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 970

386

Samsung Exynos 1080 +112%

822

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 970

1377

Samsung Exynos 1080 +116%

2980

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 970

331

Samsung Exynos 1080 +209%

1024

HiSilicon Kirin 970

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Samsung Exynos 1080

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A78
3x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A78
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

2360 MHz

Frequency

2800 MHz

8

Cores

8

2 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

0

10 nm

Process

5 nm

5.5

Transistor count

-

9 W

TDP

9 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G72 MP12

GPU name

Mali-G78 MP10

768 MHz

GPU frequency

800 MHz

12

Execution units

10

18

Shading units

64

8

Max size

8

0.3318 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.024 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

2750 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

44 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Neural Processor

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Processor

UFS 2.1

Storage type

UFS 3.1

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

2960 x 1440

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP, 2x 32MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, VC-1

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1200 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7350 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3670 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2017

Announced

Nov 2020

Flagship

Class

Mid range

Hi3670

Model number

S5E9815

HiSilicon Kirin 970

Official page

Samsung Exynos 1080

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