Samsung Exynos 7904 vs HiSilicon Kirin 980

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 1800MHz Samsung Exynos 7904 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 7904 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

Released 6 months late

HiSilicon Kirin 980 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.5184 TFLOPS vs 0.0493 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 1800MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Samsung Exynos 7904

141645

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +311%

583410

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Samsung Exynos 7904

287

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +190%

835

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Samsung Exynos 7904

939

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +127%

2132

FP32 (float)

Samsung Exynos 7904

49

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +957%

518

Samsung Exynos 7904

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HiSilicon Kirin 980

CPU

2x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A73
6x 1.6 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

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

1800 MHz

Frequency

2600 MHz

8

Cores

8

-

L2 cache

4 MB

-

L3 cache

0

14 nm

Process

7 nm

2

Transistor count

6.9

5 W

TDP

6 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G71 MP2

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP10

770 MHz

GPU frequency

720 MHz

2

Execution units

10

16

Shading units

36

6

Max size

8

0.0493 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.5184 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

-

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

2x 16 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

2400 x 1080

Max display resolution

3120 x 1440

1x 32MP, 2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

1080p at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 12

4G support

LTE Cat. 21

No

5G support

No

Up to 600 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1400 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 200 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Feb 2019

Announced

Aug 2018

Mid range

Class

Flagship

S5E7904

Model number

-

Samsung Exynos 7904

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 980

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