HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G vs Samsung Exynos 1280

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HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

Samsung Exynos 1280

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2860MHz HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G vs. 8 cores 2400MHz Samsung Exynos 1280 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.6912 TFLOPS vs 0.487 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 17GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2860MHz vs 2400MHz)

Samsung Exynos 1280 Advantages

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 7nm)

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +38%

665287

Samsung Exynos 1280

481288

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +13%

969

Samsung Exynos 1280

852

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +64%

3176

Samsung Exynos 1280

1927

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G +41%

691

Samsung Exynos 1280

487

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

VS

Samsung Exynos 1280

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A78
6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

2860 MHz

Frequency

2400 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

2 MB

L2 cache

-

7 nm

Process

5 nm

8

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP16

GPU name

Mali-G68 MP4

600 MHz

GPU frequency

1000 MHz

16

Execution units

4

36

Shading units

48

12

Max size

8

0.6912 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.487 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

17 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Da Vinci

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

UFS 2.2

3360 x 1440

Max display resolution

2960 x 1440

-

Max camera resolution

1x 108MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

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. 18

Yes

5G support

Yes

Up to 4600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 2550 Mbps

Up to 1250 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1840 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Oct 2019

Announced

Mar 2022

Flagship

Class

Mid range

-

Model number

S5E8825

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

Official page

Samsung Exynos 1280

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