HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs Samsung Exynos 1280

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2600MHz HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs. 8 cores 2400MHz Samsung Exynos 1280 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 980 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.5184 TFLOPS vs 0.487 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 17GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 2400MHz)

Samsung Exynos 1280 Advantages

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 7nm)

Released 3 years and 7 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +21%

583410

Samsung Exynos 1280

481288

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 980

835

Samsung Exynos 1280 +2%

852

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +10%

2132

Samsung Exynos 1280

1927

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +6%

518

Samsung Exynos 1280

487

HiSilicon Kirin 980

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Samsung Exynos 1280

CPU

2x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A76
2x 1.92 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A78
6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

2600 MHz

Frequency

2400 MHz

8

Cores

8

4 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

7 nm

Process

5 nm

6.9

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP10

GPU name

Mali-G68 MP4

720 MHz

GPU frequency

1000 MHz

10

Execution units

4

36

Shading units

48

8

Max size

8

0.5184 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.487 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

17 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

UFS 2.2

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

2960 x 1440

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 108MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 21

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1400 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 2550 Mbps

Up to 200 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1840 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Aug 2018

Announced

Mar 2022

Flagship

Class

Mid range

-

Model number

S5E8825

HiSilicon Kirin 980

Official page

Samsung Exynos 1280

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