Samsung Exynos 8890 vs HiSilicon Kirin 980

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2300MHz Samsung Exynos 8890 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 8890 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 6W)

HiSilicon Kirin 980 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.5184 TFLOPS vs 0.2496 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 26.82GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 2300MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Samsung Exynos 8890

228887

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +154%

583410

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Samsung Exynos 8890

322

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +159%

835

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Samsung Exynos 8890

890

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +139%

2132

FP32 (float)

Samsung Exynos 8890

249

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +108%

518

Samsung Exynos 8890

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 980

CPU

4x 2.3 GHz – Mongoose M1
4x 1.6 GHz – Cortex-A53

Architecture

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

2300 MHz

Frequency

2600 MHz

8

Cores

8

2 MB

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-T880 MP12

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP10

650 MHz

GPU frequency

720 MHz

12

Execution units

10

16

Shading units

36

4

Max size

8

0.2496 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.5184 TFLOPS

1.0

Vulkan version

1.3

1.2

OpenCL version

2.0

11.2

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1800 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

2x 32 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

26.82 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

No

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

No

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

3840 x 2400

Max display resolution

3120 x 1440

1x 24MP, 2x 12MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

4K at 60FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 13

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

4.2

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Nov 2015

Announced

Aug 2018

Flagship

Class

Flagship

SGA8890A

Model number

-

Samsung Exynos 8890

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 980

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