Samsung Exynos 7870 vs HiSilicon Kirin 960

VS

Samsung Exynos 7870

HiSilicon Kirin 960

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 1600MHz Samsung Exynos 7870 vs. 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 960 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Samsung Exynos 7870 Advantages

More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 16nm)

Lower TDP (3W vs 5W)

HiSilicon Kirin 960 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2655 TFLOPS vs 0.0224 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2360MHz vs 1600MHz)

Released 8 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Samsung Exynos 7870

146176

HiSilicon Kirin 960 +90%

278916

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Samsung Exynos 7870

172

HiSilicon Kirin 960 +137%

408

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Samsung Exynos 7870

495

HiSilicon Kirin 960 +179%

1385

FP32 (float)

Samsung Exynos 7870

22

HiSilicon Kirin 960 +1104%

265

Samsung Exynos 7870

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 960

CPU

8x 1.6 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex-A53

1600 MHz

Frequency

2360 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

-

L2 cache

4 MB

14 nm

Process

16 nm

2

Transistor count

4

3 W

TDP

5 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-T830 MP1

GPU name

Mali-G71 MP8

700 MHz

GPU frequency

1037 MHz

1

Execution units

8

16

Shading units

16

4

Max size

4

0.0224 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.2655 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.3

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

11.3

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR4

933 MHz

Memory frequency

1600 MHz

1x 32 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

28.8 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

No

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

1920 x 1200

Max display resolution

2560 x 1600

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

Max camera resolution

2x 16MP

1K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.1

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Feb 2016

Announced

Oct 2016

Low end

Class

Flagship

-

Model number

Hi3660

Samsung Exynos 7870

Official page

-

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