Samsung Exynos 7870 vs HiSilicon Kirin 980

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 1600MHz Samsung Exynos 7870 vs. 8 cores 2600MHz HiSilicon Kirin 980 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Samsung Exynos 7870 Advantages

Lower TDP (3W vs 6W)

HiSilicon Kirin 980 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.5184 TFLOPS vs 0.0224 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 1600MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)

Released 2 years and 6 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Samsung Exynos 7870

146176

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +299%

583410

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Samsung Exynos 7870

172

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +385%

835

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Samsung Exynos 7870

495

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +330%

2132

FP32 (float)

Samsung Exynos 7870

22

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +2254%

518

Samsung Exynos 7870

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 980

CPU

8x 1.6 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

2x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A76
2x 1.92 GHz – Cortex-A76
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55

1600 MHz

Frequency

2600 MHz

8

Cores

8

-

L2 cache

4 MB

-

L3 cache

0

14 nm

Process

7 nm

2

Transistor count

6.9

3 W

TDP

6 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-T830 MP1

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP10

700 MHz

GPU frequency

720 MHz

1

Execution units

10

16

Shading units

36

4

Max size

8

0.0224 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.5184 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.3

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR3

Memory type

LPDDR4X

933 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

1x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

-

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

No

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

1920 x 1200

Max display resolution

3120 x 1440

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

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, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 6

4G support

LTE Cat. 21

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1400 Mbps

Up to 50 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 200 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.1

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Feb 2016

Announced

Aug 2018

Low end

Class

Flagship

Samsung Exynos 7870

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 980

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