Samsung Exynos 980 vs HiSilicon Kirin 950

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2200MHz Samsung Exynos 980 vs. 8 cores 2400MHz HiSilicon Kirin 950 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Samsung Exynos 980 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.2621 TFLOPS vs 0.1152 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 25.6GB/s)

More modern manufacturing process (8nm vs 16nm)

Released 3 years and 10 months late

HiSilicon Kirin 950 Advantages

Higher Frequency (2400MHz vs 2200MHz)

Lower TDP (5W vs 9W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Samsung Exynos 980 +133%

869

HiSilicon Kirin 950

372

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Samsung Exynos 980 +83%

1867

HiSilicon Kirin 950

1016

FP32 (float)

Samsung Exynos 980 +127%

262

HiSilicon Kirin 950

115

Samsung Exynos 980

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HiSilicon Kirin 950

CPU

2x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A77
6x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

4x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53

2200 MHz

Frequency

2400 MHz

8

Cores

8

8 nm

Process

16 nm

-

Transistor count

2

9 W

TDP

5 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP5

GPU name

Mali-T880 MP4

728 MHz

GPU frequency

900 MHz

5

Execution units

4

36

Shading units

16

8

Max size

4

0.2621 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.1152 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

12

DirectX version

11.2

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

-

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 32 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

25.6 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

No

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

3360 x 1440

Max display resolution

2560 x 1600

1x 108MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 21MP, 2x 16MP

4K at 120FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

4K at 120FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Exynos 5123

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 3550 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 1380 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 50 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

4.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2019

Announced

Nov 2015

Mid range

Class

Flagship

S5E9630

Model number

Hi3650

Samsung Exynos 980

Official page

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