Samsung Exynos 7872 vs HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

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Samsung Exynos 7872

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 6 cores 2000MHz Samsung Exynos 7872 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

Samsung Exynos 7872 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.6912 TFLOPS vs 0.0384 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 3.7GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2860MHz vs 2000MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)

Released 1 years and 9 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Samsung Exynos 7872

38

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G +1718%

691

Samsung Exynos 7872

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

CPU

2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 1.6 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

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

2000 MHz

Frequency

2860 MHz

6

Cores

8

ARMv8-A

Instruction set

ARMv8.2-A

-

L2 cache

2 MB

14 nm

Process

7 nm

2

Transistor count

8

5 W

TDP

6 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G71 MP1

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP16

1200 MHz

GPU frequency

600 MHz

1

Execution units

16

Shading units

36

4

Max size

12

0.0384 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.6912 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

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

3.7 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Da Vinci

eMMC 5.1

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

1920 x 1200

Max display resolution

3360 x 1440

1x 22MP

Max camera resolution

-

1K at 120FPS

Video capture

4K at 60FPS

1080p at 120FPS

Video playback

4K at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VC-1

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

-

Modem

Balong 765

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 7

4G support

LTE Cat. 19

No

5G support

No

Up to 300 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1400 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 200 Mbps

4

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Jan 2018

Announced

Oct 2019

Low end

Class

Flagship

S5E7872

Model number

-

Samsung Exynos 7872

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

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