Samsung Exynos 2500 vs HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

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Samsung Exynos 2500 HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 10 cores 3200MHz Samsung Exynos 2500 vs. 8 cores 2860MHz HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G . 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

Samsung Exynos 2500 +278%

2519784

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

665287

Samsung Exynos 2500

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HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

CPU

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

Architecture

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

3200 MHz

Frequency

2860 MHz

10

Cores

8

-

L2 cache

2 MB

3 nm

Process

7 nm

-

Transistor count

8

-

TDP

6 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

-

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP16

-

GPU frequency

600 MHz

-

Execution units

16

-

Shading units

36

24

Max size

12

-

FLOPS

0.6912 TFLOPS

-

Vulkan version

1.3

-

OpenCL version

2.0

-

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR5T

Memory type

LPDDR4X

4800 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

76.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Da Vinci

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Da Vinci

UFS 4.0

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

3840 x 2160

Max display resolution

3360 x 1440

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, AV1

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VC-1

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

Balong 5000

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 24

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

Yes

5G support

Yes

-

Download speed

Up to 4600 Mbps

-

Upload speed

Up to 1250 Mbps

7

Wi-Fi

6

5.4

Bluetooth

5.0

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

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Info

Jan 2025

Announced

Oct 2019

Flagship

Class

Flagship

-

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G

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