HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs Samsung Exynos 990

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HiSilicon Kirin 970

Samsung Exynos 990

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs. 8 cores 2730MHz Samsung Exynos 990 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Samsung Exynos 990 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.126 TFLOPS vs 0.3318 TFLOPS )

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

Higher Frequency (2730MHz vs 2360MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 10nm)

Released 2 years and 1 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 970

355946

Samsung Exynos 990 +98%

707030

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 970

386

Samsung Exynos 990 +118%

842

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 970

1377

Samsung Exynos 990 +94%

2672

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 970

331

Samsung Exynos 990 +240%

1126

HiSilicon Kirin 970

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Samsung Exynos 990

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.73 GHz – Exynos M5
2x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

2360 MHz

Frequency

2730 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

2 MB

L2 cache

1 MB

0

L3 cache

0

10 nm

Process

7 nm

5.5

Transistor count

-

9 W

TDP

9 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G72 MP12

GPU name

Mali-G77 MP11

768 MHz

GPU frequency

800 MHz

12

Execution units

11

18

Shading units

64

8

Max size

16

0.3318 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.126 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

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

UFS 2.1

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

3840 x 2400

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 108MP, 2x 25MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS

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

-

Modem

Exynos 5123

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

5.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2017

Announced

Oct 2019

Flagship

Class

Flagship

Hi3670

Model number

S5E9830

HiSilicon Kirin 970

Official page

Samsung Exynos 990

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