Samsung Exynos 7420 vs HiSilicon Kirin 955

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2100MHz Samsung Exynos 7420 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 7420 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.1976 TFLOPS vs 0.1152 TFLOPS )

More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 16nm)

HiSilicon Kirin 955 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2500MHz vs 2100MHz)

Lower TDP (5W vs 7W)

Released 1 years late

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Samsung Exynos 7420

195

HiSilicon Kirin 955 +53%

299

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Samsung Exynos 7420

840

HiSilicon Kirin 955 +23%

1040

FP32 (float)

Samsung Exynos 7420 +71%

197

HiSilicon Kirin 955

115

Samsung Exynos 7420

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 955

CPU

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

Architecture

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

2100 MHz

Frequency

2500 MHz

8

Cores

8

512 KB

L2 cache

-

14 nm

Process

16 nm

2

Transistor count

-

7 W

TDP

5 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-T760 MP8

GPU name

Mali-T880 MP4

772 MHz

GPU frequency

900 MHz

8

Execution units

4

16

Shading units

16

4

Max size

4

0.1976 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1152 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.0

1.2

OpenCL version

1.2

11

DirectX version

11.2

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4

2x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

24.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

-

AI

No

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

No

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

2560 x 1440

Max display resolution

1920 x 1080

1x 24MP, 2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

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

Shannon 333

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

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

5

4.1

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Apr 2015

Announced

Apr 2016

Flagship

Class

Flagship

Samsung Exynos 7420

Official page

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