Samsung Exynos 9820 vs HiSilicon Kirin 955

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Samsung Exynos 9820

HiSilicon Kirin 955

We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2730MHz Samsung Exynos 9820 vs. 8 cores 2500MHz HiSilicon Kirin 955 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

Samsung Exynos 9820 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.607 TFLOPS vs 0.1152 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2730MHz vs 2500MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (8nm vs 16nm)

Released 2 years and 7 months late

HiSilicon Kirin 955 Advantages

Lower TDP (5W vs 9W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Samsung Exynos 9820 +149%

747

HiSilicon Kirin 955

299

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Samsung Exynos 9820 +124%

2333

HiSilicon Kirin 955

1040

FP32 (float)

Samsung Exynos 9820 +427%

607

HiSilicon Kirin 955

115

Samsung Exynos 9820

VS

HiSilicon Kirin 955

CPU

2x 2.73 GHz – Mongoose M4
2x 2.31 GHz – Cortex-A75
4x 1.95 GHz – Cortex-A55

Architecture

4x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A72
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53

2730 MHz

Frequency

2500 MHz

8

Cores

8

ARMv8.2-A

Instruction set

ARMv8-A

2 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

8 nm

Process

16 nm

8.5

Transistor count

-

9 W

TDP

5 W

Samsung

Manufacturing

TSMC

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP12

GPU name

Mali-T880 MP4

702 MHz

GPU frequency

900 MHz

12

Execution units

4

36

Shading units

16

12

Max size

4

0.607 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 16 Bit

33.4 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

-

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

No

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0

3840 x 2400

Max display resolution

1920 x 1080

1x 32MP, 2x 16MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 12MP

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 150FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 150FPS

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

AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC

Exynos 5100

Modem

-

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 20

4G support

LTE Cat. 6

Yes

5G support

No

Up to 2000 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 300 Mbps

Up to 316 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

Nov 2018

Announced

Apr 2016

Flagship

Class

Flagship

S5E9820

Model number

-

Samsung Exynos 9820

Official page

-

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