HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G vs Samsung Exynos 2500

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HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

Samsung Exynos 2500

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2860MHz HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G vs. 10 cores 3200MHz Samsung Exynos 2500 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Samsung Exynos 2500 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (76.8GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Higher Frequency (3200MHz vs 2860MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 7nm)

Released 5 years and 3 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

665287

Samsung Exynos 2500 +278%

2519784

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

VS

Samsung Exynos 2500

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X5
3x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A730
2x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A730
4x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A520

2860 MHz

Frequency

3200 MHz

8

Cores

10

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv9.2-A

2 MB

L2 cache

-

7 nm

Process

3 nm

8

Transistor count

-

6 W

TDP

-

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP16

GPU name

-

600 MHz

GPU frequency

-

16

Execution units

-

36

Shading units

-

12

Max size

24

0.6912 TFLOPS

FLOPS

-

1.3

Vulkan version

-

2.0

OpenCL version

-

12

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR5T

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

4800 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

76.8 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

Da Vinci

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

UFS 4.0

3360 x 1440

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

H.264, H.265, VC-1

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, AV1

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 1250 Mbps

Upload speed

-

6

Wi-Fi

7

5.0

Bluetooth

5.4

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC

Info

Oct 2019

Announced

Jan 2025

Flagship

Class

Flagship

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

Official page

-

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