HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs Samsung Exynos 980

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2600MHz HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs. 8 cores 2200MHz Samsung Exynos 980 . 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 0.2621 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 2200MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 8nm)

Lower TDP (6W vs 9W)

Samsung Exynos 980 Advantages

Released 1 years and 1 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +34%

583410

Samsung Exynos 980

433794

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 980

835

Samsung Exynos 980 +4%

869

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +14%

2132

Samsung Exynos 980

1867

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +97%

518

Samsung Exynos 980

262

HiSilicon Kirin 980

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Samsung Exynos 980

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A77
6x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55

2600 MHz

Frequency

2200 MHz

8

Cores

8

4 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

7 nm

Process

8 nm

6.9

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

9 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP10

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP5

720 MHz

GPU frequency

728 MHz

10

Execution units

5

36

Shading units

36

8

Max size

8

0.5184 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2621 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

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

3360 x 1440

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 108MP, 2x 20MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 120FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 120FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

Exynos 5123

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 21

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1400 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 3550 Mbps

Up to 200 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1380 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Aug 2018

Announced

Sep 2019

Flagship

Class

Mid range

-

Model number

S5E9630

HiSilicon Kirin 980

Official page

Samsung Exynos 980

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