HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs Samsung Exynos 2500

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2600MHz HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs. 10 cores 3200MHz Samsung Exynos 2500 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Samsung Exynos 2500 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (76.8GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3200MHz vs 2600MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 7nm)

Released 6 years and 5 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 980

583410

Samsung Exynos 2500 +331%

2519784

HiSilicon Kirin 980

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Samsung Exynos 2500

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X5
3x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A730
2x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A730
4x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A520

2600 MHz

Frequency

3200 MHz

8

Cores

10

4 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

7 nm

Process

3 nm

6.9

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP10

GPU name

-

720 MHz

GPU frequency

-

10

Execution units

-

36

Shading units

-

8

Max size

24

0.5184 TFLOPS

FLOPS

-

1.3

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

12

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5T

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

4800 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

76.8 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

UFS 4.0

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

-

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 21

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1400 Mbps

Download speed

-

Up to 200 Mbps

Upload speed

-

6

Wi-Fi

7

5.0

Bluetooth

5.4

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC

Info

Aug 2018

Announced

Jan 2025

Flagship

Class

Flagship

HiSilicon Kirin 980

Official page

-

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