Samsung Exynos 7420 vs HiSilicon Kirin 659

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Samsung Exynos 7420

HiSilicon Kirin 659

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2100MHz Samsung Exynos 7420 vs. 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 659 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Samsung Exynos 7420 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.1976 TFLOPS vs 0.0576 TFLOPS )

More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 16nm)

HiSilicon Kirin 659 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2360MHz vs 2100MHz)

Released 1 years and 9 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Samsung Exynos 7420 +97%

205159

HiSilicon Kirin 659

103952

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Samsung Exynos 7420

195

HiSilicon Kirin 659 +10%

215

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Samsung Exynos 7420 +3%

840

HiSilicon Kirin 659

810

FP32 (float)

Samsung Exynos 7420 +245%

197

HiSilicon Kirin 659

57

Samsung Exynos 7420

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 659

CPU

4x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A57
4x 1.5 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A53
4x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53

2100 MHz

Frequency

2360 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

512 KB

L2 cache

-

14 nm

Process

16 nm

2

Transistor count

4

7 W

TDP

-

Samsung

Manufacturing

-

Graphics

Mali-T760 MP8

GPU name

Mali-T830 MP2

772 MHz

GPU frequency

900 MHz

8

Execution units

2

16

Shading units

16

4

Max size

4

0.1976 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0576 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.0

1.2

OpenCL version

1.2

11

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR3

-

Memory frequency

933 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

24.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

-

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

No

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

2560 x 1440

Max display resolution

1920 x 1200

1x 24MP, 2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

1K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

1080p at 60FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Shannon 333

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 7

No

5G support

No

Up to 450 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

4

Wi-Fi

4

4.1

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Info

Apr 2015

Announced

Jan 2017

Flagship

Class

Mid range

-

Model number

Hi6250

Samsung Exynos 7420

Official page

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