HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs Samsung Exynos 9610

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2600MHz HiSilicon Kirin 980 vs. 8 cores 2300MHz Samsung Exynos 9610 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 980 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.5184 TFLOPS vs 0.0918 TFLOPS )

Larger memory bandwidth (34.1GB/s vs 11.9GB/s)

Higher Frequency (2600MHz vs 2300MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 10nm)

Lower TDP (6W vs 8W)

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +128%

583410

Samsung Exynos 9610

255002

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +123%

835

Samsung Exynos 9610

374

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +102%

2132

Samsung Exynos 9610

1051

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 980 +469%

518

Samsung Exynos 9610

91

HiSilicon Kirin 980

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Samsung Exynos 9610

CPU

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

Architecture

4x 2.3 GHz – Cortex-A73
4x 1.7 GHz – Cortex-A53

2600 MHz

Frequency

2300 MHz

8

Cores

8

4 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

7 nm

Process

10 nm

6.9

Transistor count

3

6 W

TDP

8 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G76 MP10

GPU name

Mali-G72 MP3

720 MHz

GPU frequency

850 MHz

10

Execution units

3

36

Shading units

18

8

Max size

6

0.5184 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.0918 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

1600 MHz

4x 16 Bit

Bus

2x 16 Bit

34.1 Gbit/s

Max bandwidth

11.9 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Storage type

eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

2560 x 1600

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 24MP, 2x 16MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 120FPS

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 120FPS

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

-

Modem

Shannon 337

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 21

4G support

LTE Cat. 12

No

5G support

No

Up to 1400 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 600 Mbps

Up to 200 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 150 Mbps

6

Wi-Fi

5

5.0

Bluetooth

5.0

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Aug 2018

Announced

Mar 2018

Flagship

Class

Mid range

-

Model number

S5E9610

HiSilicon Kirin 980

Official page

Samsung Exynos 9610

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