HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G vs Samsung Exynos 1080

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HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

Samsung Exynos 1080

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2860MHz HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G vs. 8 cores 2800MHz Samsung Exynos 1080 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G Advantages

Higher Frequency (2860MHz vs 2800MHz)

Lower TDP (6W vs 9W)

Samsung Exynos 1080 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (1.024 TFLOPS vs 0.6912 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (44GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 7nm)

Released 1 years and 1 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +17%

969

Samsung Exynos 1080

822

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +6%

3176

Samsung Exynos 1080

2980

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

691

Samsung Exynos 1080 +48%

1024

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

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Samsung Exynos 1080

CPU

2x 2.86 GHz – Cortex-A76
2x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.95 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

1x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A78
3x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A78
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

2860 MHz

Frequency

2800 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

2 MB

L2 cache

-

L3 cache

0

7 nm

Process

5 nm

8

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

9 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP16

GPU name

Mali-G78 MP10

600 MHz

GPU frequency

800 MHz

16

Execution units

10

36

Shading units

64

12

Max size

8

0.6912 TFLOPS

FLOPS

1.024 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

2750 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

44 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Da Vinci

Neural processor (NPU)

Neural Processor

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

UFS 3.1

3360 x 1440

Max display resolution

2960 x 1440

-

Max camera resolution

1x 200MP, 2x 32MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VC-1

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Balong 5000

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 4600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 7350 Mbps

Up to 1250 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 3670 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Oct 2019

Announced

Nov 2020

Flagship

Class

Mid range

-

Model number

S5E9815

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

Official page

Samsung Exynos 1080

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