HiSilicon Kirin 970 vs Samsung Exynos 990
SOC · Specs Compare
CPU
Architecture
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A734x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53
2x 2.73 GHz – Exynos M52x 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A764x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
Frequency
2360 MHz
2730 MHz
Cores
8
8
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
ARMv8.2-A
L1 cache
512 KB
192 KB
L2 cache
0
0
L3 cache
0
0
Process
10 nm
7 nm
Transistor count
5.5
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TDP
9 W
9 W
Manufacturing
TSMC
Samsung
Graphics
GPU name
Mali-G72 MP12
Mali-G77 MP11
GPU frequency
768 MHz
800 MHz
Execution units
12
11
Shading units
18
64
Vulkan version
1.3
1.3
OpenCL version
2.0
2.0
DirectX version
12
12
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR4X
LPDDR5
Memory frequency
1866 MHz
2750 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
29.8 Gbit/s
44 Gbit/s
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU)
Yes
Yes
Storage type
UFS 2.1
UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0
Max display resolution
3120 x 1440
3840 x 2400
Max camera resolution
1x 48MP, 2x 20MP
1x 108MP, 2x 25MP
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
8K at 30FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, VC-1
H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
Audio codecs
32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 18
LTE Cat. 24
5G support
No
Yes
Download speed
Up to 1200 Mbps
Up to 7350 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 150 Mbps
Up to 3670 Mbps
Wi-Fi
5
6
Bluetooth
4.2
5.1
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Announced
Sep 2017
Oct 2019
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
Hi3670
S5E9830
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
355,946
707,030
Geekbench 6
386
842
Geekbench 6
1,377
2,672
FP32 (float)
331
1,126
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.