HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs Samsung Exynos 8890

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HiSilicon Kirin 970

Samsung Exynos 8890

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 970 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 970 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.3318 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 26.82GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2360MHz vs 2300MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 14nm)

Released 1 years and 10 months late

Samsung Exynos 8890 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 9W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +55%

355946

Samsung Exynos 8890

228887

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +19%

386

Samsung Exynos 8890

322

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +54%

1377

Samsung Exynos 8890

890

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 970 +32%

331

Samsung Exynos 8890

249

HiSilicon Kirin 970

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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

2 MB

L2 cache

2 MB

0

L3 cache

-

10 nm

Process

14 nm

5.5

Transistor count

2

9 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G72 MP12

GPU name

Mali-T880 MP12

768 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

12

Execution units

12

18

Shading units

16

8

Max size

4

0.3318 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2496 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

12

DirectX version

11.2

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

1800 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

26.82 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

No

UFS 2.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

3840 x 2400

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

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, VC-1

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 13

No

5G support

No

Up to 1200 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

Sep 2017

Announced

Nov 2015

Flagship

Class

Flagship

Hi3670

Model number

SGA8890A

HiSilicon Kirin 970

Official page

Samsung Exynos 8890

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