Samsung Exynos 7420 vs HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

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Samsung Exynos 7420

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2100MHz Samsung Exynos 7420 vs. 8 cores 2860MHz HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.6912 TFLOPS vs 0.1976 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 24.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2860MHz vs 2100MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)

Lower TDP (6W vs 7W)

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Samsung Exynos 7420

205159

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G +239%

695853

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Samsung Exynos 7420

195

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G +407%

990

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Samsung Exynos 7420

840

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G +278%

3179

FP32 (float)

Samsung Exynos 7420

197

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G +250%

691

Samsung Exynos 7420

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.86 GHz – Cortex-A76
2x 2.09 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.86 GHz – Cortex-A55

2100 MHz

Frequency

2860 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

512 KB

L2 cache

2 MB

14 nm

Process

7 nm

2

Transistor count

8

7 W

TDP

6 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-T760 MP8

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP16

772 MHz

GPU frequency

600 MHz

8

Execution units

16

Shading units

36

4

Max size

12

0.1976 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.6912 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.3

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4X

-

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

24.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Da Vinci

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

2560 x 1440

Max display resolution

3360 x 1440

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, VC-1

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Shannon 333

Modem

Balong 765

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 19

No

5G support

No

Up to 450 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1400 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 200 Mbps

4

Wi-Fi

6

4.1

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Apr 2015

Announced

Oct 2019

Flagship

Class

Flagship

Samsung Exynos 7420

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

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