Samsung Exynos 1280 vs HiSilicon Kirin 955

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2400MHz Samsung Exynos 1280 vs. 8 cores 2500MHz HiSilicon Kirin 955 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Samsung Exynos 1280 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.487 TFLOPS vs 0.1152 TFLOPS )

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 16nm)

Released 5 years and 11 months late

HiSilicon Kirin 955 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2500MHz vs 2400MHz)

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Samsung Exynos 1280 +184%

852

HiSilicon Kirin 955

299

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Samsung Exynos 1280 +85%

1927

HiSilicon Kirin 955

1040

FP32 (float)

Samsung Exynos 1280 +323%

487

HiSilicon Kirin 955

115

Samsung Exynos 1280

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HiSilicon Kirin 955

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53

2400 MHz

Frequency

2500 MHz

8

Cores

8

5 nm

Process

16 nm

6 W

TDP

5 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G68 MP4

GPU name

Mali-T880 MP4

1000 MHz

GPU frequency

900 MHz

4

Execution units

4

48

Shading units

16

8

Max size

4

0.487 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1152 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

12

DirectX version

11.2

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

-

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

17 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

-

AI

Yes

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

No

UFS 2.2

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

2960 x 1440

Max display resolution

1920 x 1080

1x 108MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 2550 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 1840 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

5.2

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Mar 2022

Announced

Apr 2016

Mid range

Class

Flagship

S5E8825

Model number

-

Samsung Exynos 1280

Official page

-

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