HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs Samsung Exynos 9820

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs. 8 cores 2730MHz Samsung Exynos 9820 . 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 0.3318 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (33.4GB/s vs 29.8GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2730MHz vs 2360MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (8nm vs 10nm)

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 970

355946

Samsung Exynos 9820 +82%

648880

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 970

386

Samsung Exynos 9820 +93%

747

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 970

1377

Samsung Exynos 9820 +69%

2333

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 970

331

Samsung Exynos 9820 +83%

607

HiSilicon Kirin 970

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Samsung Exynos 9820

CPU

4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A73
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53

Architecture

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

2360 MHz

Frequency

2730 MHz

8

Cores

8

2 MB

L2 cache

2 MB

0

L3 cache

0

10 nm

Process

8 nm

5.5

Transistor count

8.5

9 W

TDP

9 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G72 MP12

GPU name

Mali-G76 MP12

768 MHz

GPU frequency

702 MHz

12

Execution units

12

18

Shading units

36

8

Max size

12

0.3318 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.607 TFLOPS

1.3

Vulkan version

1.3

2.0

OpenCL version

2.0

12

DirectX version

12

Memory

LPDDR4X

Memory type

LPDDR4X

1866 MHz

Memory frequency

2133 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

4x 16 Bit

29.8 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

33.4 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

UFS 2.1

Storage type

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

3840 x 2400

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 32MP, 2x 16MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 150FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 150FPS

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, VC-1

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP9

32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio

Audio codecs

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

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Modem

Exynos 5100

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 20

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1200 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 2000 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 316 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

6

4.2

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2017

Announced

Nov 2018

Flagship

Class

Flagship

Hi3670

Model number

S5E9820

HiSilicon Kirin 970

Official page

Samsung Exynos 9820

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