Samsung Exynos 7420 vs HiSilicon Kirin 9020

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Samsung Exynos 7420

HiSilicon Kirin 9020

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2100MHz Samsung Exynos 7420 vs. 8 cores 2500MHz HiSilicon Kirin 9020 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 9020 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (44GB/s vs 24.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2500MHz vs 2100MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)

Released 9 years and 8 months late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Samsung Exynos 7420

195

HiSilicon Kirin 9020 +728%

1616

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Samsung Exynos 7420

840

HiSilicon Kirin 9020 +532%

5314

Samsung Exynos 7420

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 9020

CPU

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

Architecture

1x 2.5 GHz – TaiShan
3x 2.15 GHz – TaiShan
4x 1.6 GHz – TaiShan

2100 MHz

Frequency

2500 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

512 KB

L2 cache

5 MB

-

L3 cache

10 MB

14 nm

Process

7 nm

2

Transistor count

-

7 W

TDP

-

Samsung

Manufacturing

SMIC

Graphics

Mali-T760 MP8

GPU name

Maleoon 920

772 MHz

GPU frequency

840 MHz

8

Execution units

4

16

Shading units

-

4

Max size

16

0.1976 TFLOPS

FLOPS

-

1.0

Vulkan version

-

1.2

OpenCL version

-

11

DirectX version

-

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR5

-

Memory frequency

2750 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

24.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

44 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Da Vinci

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0

2560 x 1440

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

1x 24MP, 2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

-

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Shannon 333

Modem

Balong 5000

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 450 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 4600 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 2500 Mbps

4

Wi-Fi

6

4.1

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Apr 2015

Announced

Dec 2024

Flagship

Class

Flagship

Samsung Exynos 7420

Official page

-

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