HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs Samsung Exynos 9820

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2600MHz HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs. 8 cores 2730MHz Samsung Exynos 9820 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 980 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 33.4GB/s)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 8nm)

Lower TDP (6W vs 9W)

Samsung Exynos 9820 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.607 TFLOPS vs 0.5184 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2730MHz vs 2600MHz)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 980

583410

Samsung Exynos 9820 +11%

648880

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +11%

835

Samsung Exynos 9820

747

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 980

2132

Samsung Exynos 9820 +9%

2333

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 980

518

Samsung Exynos 9820 +17%

607

HiSilicon Kirin 980

VS

Samsung Exynos 9820

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.73 GHz – Mongoose M4
2x 2.31 GHz – Cortex-A75
4x 1.95 GHz – Cortex-A55

2600 MHz

Frequency

2730 MHz

8

Cores

8

4 MB

L2 cache

2 MB

0

L3 cache

0

7 nm

Process

8 nm

6.9

Transistor count

8.5

6 W

TDP

9 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP10

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP12

720 MHz

GPU frequency

702 MHz

10

Execution units

12

36

Shading units

36

8

Max size

12

0.5184 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.607 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

33.4 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

3840 x 2400

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 16MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 150FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 150FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

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Modem

Exynos 5100

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 21

4G support

LTE Cat. 20

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1400 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 2000 Mbps

Up to 200 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 316 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Aug 2018

Announced

Nov 2018

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

S5E9820

HiSilicon Kirin 980

Official page

Samsung Exynos 9820

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