78

Points
Hisilicon Kirin 9000

78

Points
Samsung Exynos 1280
Overview - Kirin 9000 Vs Exynos 1280

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Kirin 9000 vs Exynos 1280 SoCs by Hisilicon and Samsung respectively. We've now weighed the advantages and disadvantages of these 8-core CPUs on the basis of their Geekbench, Antutu and 3DMark benchmarks with their technical specifications.

Features

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Kirin 9000 41
Exynos 1280 24
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Kirin 9000 36
Exynos 1280 18
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Kirin 9000 86
Exynos 1280 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Kirin 9000 54
Exynos 1280 41
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Kirin 9000 Exynos 1280
CPU 194527 121972
GPU 280796 104889
Memory 146761 77341
UX 140303 106223
Total score 762387 410425
Key Differences

Pros of Hisilicon Kirin 9000

  • Kirin 9000 has 30.42% higher CPU clock speed than Exynos 1280 (3130 vs 2400 MHz).
  • Kirin 9000 has 28.93% higher memory frequency than Exynos 1280 (2750 vs 2133 MHz).
  • Kirin 9000 has 20% smaller sized transistor than Exynos 1280 (4 vs 5 nm).
  • Kirin 9000 has 85.76% better AnTuTu 9 score than Exynos 1280 (762 K vs 410 K).

Pros of Samsung Exynos 1280

  • Exynos 1280 has 31.58% higher GPU clock speed than Kirin 9000 (1000 vs 760 MHz).
  • Exynos 1280 has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 9000.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Kirin 9000 1054
Exynos 1280 733

Multi-Core Score

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Kirin 9000 3724
Exynos 1280 1832

Image compression

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Kirin 9000
Exynos 1280 116.6

Face detection

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Kirin 9000
Exynos 1280 13.5

Speech recognition

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Kirin 9000
Exynos 1280 33.1

Machine learning

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Kirin 9000
Exynos 1280 29.3

Camera shooting

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Kirin 9000
Exynos 1280 13.1

HTML 5

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Kirin 9000
Exynos 1280 1.97

SQLite

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Kirin 9000
Exynos 1280 556.4

3DMark

Stability 54%

Graphics test 36 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 13 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display - Full HD+ @120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution - 2960 x 1440
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR - -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

83%
Turbo Clock Speed

3130 MHz

63%
Turbo Clock Speed

2400 MHz

93%
Base Frequency

2050 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 3.13 GHz Cortex-A77
    3x 2.54 GHz Cortex-A77
    4x 2.05 GHz Cortex-A55
    2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A78
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8.3-A
  • L1 cache 64 KB -
  • L2 cache 0.512 MB -
  • L3 cache 4 MB -
  • Process 4 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count 15.3 Billion -
  • TDP 4 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G78 MP24 Mali-G68 MP4
  • Architecture Valhall 2 Valhall 2
  • GPU frequency 760 MHz 1000 MHz
  • Execution units 24 4
  • Shading units 384 48
  • FLOPS 1076 Gigaflops -
  • Vulkan version 1.1 1.1
  • OpenCL version 2 2.
  • DirectX version 12 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2750 MHz 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 44 Gbit/s -
  • Max Size 16 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) AI accelerator Yes
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2960 x 1440
  • Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP 1x 108MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
  • Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem Balong 5000 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes Yes
  • Wi-Fi 6 5
  • Bluetooth 5.2 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Hisilicon Kirin 9000

CPU
41%
GPU
36%
Memory
32%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

Samsung Exynos 1280

CPU
24%
GPU
18%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%
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