Samsung Exynos 980 vs HiSilicon Kirin 980

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2200MHz Samsung Exynos 980 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 980 Advantages

Released 1 years and 1 months late

HiSilicon Kirin 980 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.5184 TFLOPS vs 0.2621 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 2200MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 8nm)

Lower TDP (6W vs 9W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Samsung Exynos 980

433794

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +34%

583410

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Samsung Exynos 980 +4%

869

HiSilicon Kirin 980

835

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Samsung Exynos 980

1867

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +14%

2132

FP32 (float)

Samsung Exynos 980

262

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +97%

518

Samsung Exynos 980

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 980

CPU

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

Architecture

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

2200 MHz

Frequency

2600 MHz

8

Cores

8

-

L2 cache

4 MB

-

L3 cache

0

8 nm

Process

7 nm

-

Transistor count

6.9

9 W

TDP

6 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP5

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP10

728 MHz

GPU frequency

720 MHz

5

Execution units

10

36

Shading units

36

8

Max size

8

0.2621 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

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

34.1 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

3360 x 1440

Max display resolution

3120 x 1440

1x 108MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

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, VP9

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Exynos 5123

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 21

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 3550 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 1400 Mbps

Up to 1380 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 200 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

6

5.0

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2019

Announced

Aug 2018

Mid range

Class

Flagship

S5E9630

Model number

-

Samsung Exynos 980

Official page

HiSilicon Kirin 980

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