Samsung Exynos 1280 vs HiSilicon Kirin 970

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2400MHz Samsung Exynos 1280 vs. 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 970 . 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 0.3318 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2400MHz vs 2360MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 10nm)

Lower TDP (6W vs 9W)

Released 4 years and 6 months late

HiSilicon Kirin 970 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 17GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Samsung Exynos 1280 +35%

481288

HiSilicon Kirin 970

355946

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Samsung Exynos 1280 +120%

852

HiSilicon Kirin 970

386

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Samsung Exynos 1280 +39%

1927

HiSilicon Kirin 970

1377

FP32 (float)

Samsung Exynos 1280 +47%

487

HiSilicon Kirin 970

331

Samsung Exynos 1280

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 970

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A73
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53

2400 MHz

Frequency

2360 MHz

8

Cores

8

-

L2 cache

2 MB

-

L3 cache

0

5 nm

Process

10 nm

-

Transistor count

5.5

6 W

TDP

9 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G68 MP4

GPU name

Mali-G72 MP12

1000 MHz

GPU frequency

768 MHz

4

Execution units

12

48

Shading units

18

8

Max size

8

0.487 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.3318 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

1866 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

17 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

UFS 2.2

Storage type

UFS 2.1

2960 x 1440

Max display resolution

3120 x 1440

1x 108MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

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, VC-1

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 2550 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1200 Mbps

Up to 1840 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

5.2

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Mar 2022

Announced

Sep 2017

Mid range

Class

Flagship

S5E8825

Model number

Hi3670

Samsung Exynos 1280

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 970

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