HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs Samsung Exynos 2100

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2600MHz HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs. 8 cores 2900MHz Samsung Exynos 2100 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 980 Advantages

Lower TDP (6W vs 8W)

Samsung Exynos 2100 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.5304 TFLOPS vs 0.5184 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2900MHz vs 2600MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 7nm)

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +2%

583410

Samsung Exynos 2100

567972

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 980

835

Samsung Exynos 2100 +76%

1474

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 980

2132

Samsung Exynos 2100 +56%

3334

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 980

518

Samsung Exynos 2100 +195%

1530

HiSilicon Kirin 980

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Samsung Exynos 2100

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 2.91 GHz – Cortex-X1
3x 2.81 GHz – Cortex-A78
4x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A55

2600 MHz

Frequency

2900 MHz

8

Cores

8

4 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

7 nm

Process

5 nm

6.9

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

8 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP10

GPU name

Mali-G78 MP14

720 MHz

GPU frequency

854 MHz

10

Execution units

14

36

Shading units

64

8

Max size

24

0.5184 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.5304 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

3200 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

51.2 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

UFS 3.1

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP, 2x 32MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

8K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

Exynos 5300

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 21

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1400 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7350 Mbps

Up to 200 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3670 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, NAVIC

Info

Aug 2018

Announced

Dec 2020

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

S5E9840

HiSilicon Kirin 980

Official page

Samsung Exynos 2100

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