HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs Samsung Exynos 8890

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2600MHz HiSilicon Kirin 980 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 980 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.5184 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 26.82GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 2300MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Samsung Exynos 8890 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +154%

583410

Samsung Exynos 8890

228887

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +159%

835

Samsung Exynos 8890

322

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +139%

2132

Samsung Exynos 8890

890

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +108%

518

Samsung Exynos 8890

249

HiSilicon Kirin 980

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Samsung Exynos 8890

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 2.3 GHz – Mongoose M1
4x 1.6 GHz – Cortex-A53

2600 MHz

Frequency

2300 MHz

8

Cores

8

4 MB

L2 cache

2 MB

0

L3 cache

-

7 nm

Process

14 nm

6.9

Transistor count

2

6 W

TDP

5 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP10

GPU name

Mali-T880 MP12

720 MHz

GPU frequency

650 MHz

10

Execution units

12

36

Shading units

16

8

Max size

4

0.5184 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

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

1800 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

26.82 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

No

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

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, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 21

4G support

LTE Cat. 13

No

5G support

No

Up to 1400 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 200 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Info

Aug 2018

Announced

Nov 2015

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

SGA8890A

HiSilicon Kirin 980

Official page

Samsung Exynos 8890

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