HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs Samsung Exynos 1280

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We compared two versions of phone SoCs: 8 cores 2360MHz HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs. 8 cores 2400MHz Samsung Exynos 1280 . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption, and more.

Main Differences

HiSilicon Kirin 970 Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (29.8GB/s vs 17GB/s)

Samsung Exynos 1280 Advantages

Better graphics card performance FLOPS (0.487 TFLOPS vs 0.3318 TFLOPS )

Higher Frequency (2400MHz vs 2360MHz)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 10nm)

Lower TDP (6W vs 9W)

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Score

Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

HiSilicon Kirin 970

355946

Samsung Exynos 1280 +35%

481288

Geekbench 6 Single Core

HiSilicon Kirin 970

386

Samsung Exynos 1280 +120%

852

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

HiSilicon Kirin 970

1377

Samsung Exynos 1280 +39%

1927

FP32 (float)

HiSilicon Kirin 970

331

Samsung Exynos 1280 +47%

487

HiSilicon Kirin 970

VS

Samsung Exynos 1280

CPU

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

Architecture

2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A78
6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55

2360 MHz

Frequency

2400 MHz

8

Cores

8

2 MB

L2 cache

-

0

L3 cache

-

10 nm

Process

5 nm

5.5

Transistor count

-

9 W

TDP

6 W

TSMC

Manufacturing

Samsung

Graphics

Mali-G72 MP12

GPU name

Mali-G68 MP4

768 MHz

GPU frequency

1000 MHz

12

Execution units

4

18

Shading units

48

8

Max size

8

0.3318 TFLOPS

FLOPS

0.487 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

17 Gbit/s

AI

Yes

NPU

Yes

Multimedia (ISP)

Yes

Neural processor (NPU)

Yes

UFS 2.1

Storage type

UFS 2.2

3120 x 1440

Max display resolution

2960 x 1440

1x 48MP, 2x 20MP

Max camera resolution

1x 108MP

4K at 30FPS

Video capture

4K at 30FPS

Video playback

4K at 30FPS

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

Video codecs

H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9

32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio

Audio codecs

AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

LTE Cat. 18

4G support

LTE Cat. 18

No

5G support

Yes

Up to 1200 Mbps

Download speed

Up to 2550 Mbps

Up to 150 Mbps

Upload speed

Up to 1840 Mbps

5

Wi-Fi

5

4.2

Bluetooth

5.2

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Navigation

GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Sep 2017

Announced

Mar 2022

Flagship

Class

Mid range

Hi3670

Model number

S5E8825

HiSilicon Kirin 970

Official page

Samsung Exynos 1280

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