Samsung Exynos 980 vs Samsung Exynos 7870

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2200MHz Samsung Exynos 980 vs. 8 cores 1600MHz Samsung Exynos 7870 . 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 0.0224 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2200MHz vs 1600MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (8nm vs 14nm)

Released 3 years and 7 months late

Samsung Exynos 7870 Advantages

Lower TDP (3W vs 9W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

Samsung Exynos 980 +196%

433794

Samsung Exynos 7870

146176

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Samsung Exynos 980 +405%

869

Samsung Exynos 7870

172

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Samsung Exynos 980 +277%

1867

Samsung Exynos 7870

495

FP32 (float)

Samsung Exynos 980 +1090%

262

Samsung Exynos 7870

22

Samsung Exynos 980

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Samsung Exynos 7870

CPU

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

Architecture

8x 1.6 GHz – Cortex-A53

2200 MHz

Frequency

1600 MHz

8

Cores

8

8 nm

Process

14 nm

-

Transistor count

2

9 W

TDP

3 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP5

GPU name

Mali-T830 MP1

728 MHz

GPU frequency

700 MHz

5

Execution units

1

36

Shading units

16

8

Max size

4

0.2621 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0224 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.0

2.0

OpenCL version

1.2

12

DirectX version

11

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR3

2133 MHz

Memory frequency

933 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

1x 32 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

-

AI

Yes

NPU

No

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

No

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

Storage type

eMMC 5.1

3360 x 1440

Max display resolution

1920 x 1200

1x 108MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 16MP, 2x 8MP

4K at 120FPS

Video capture

1K at 60FPS

4K at 120FPS

Video playback

1080p at 60FPS

H.264, H.265, VP9

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8

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

4.1

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2019

Announced

Feb 2016

Mid range

Class

Low end

S5E9630

Model number

-

Samsung Exynos 980

Official page

Samsung Exynos 7870

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