Kirin 970 Vs Exynos 1080
We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Kirin 970 vs Exynos 1080 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.
Review
CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Key Differences
Pros of Hisilicon Kirin 970
- Kirin 970 has 6.25% higher GPU clock speed than Exynos 1080 (850 vs 800 MHz).
Pros of Samsung Exynos 1080
- Exynos 1080 has 18.64% higher CPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (2800 vs 2360 MHz).
- Exynos 1080 has 47.37% higher memory frequency than Kirin 970 (2750 vs 1866 MHz).
- Exynos 1080 has 50% smaller sized transistor than Kirin 970 (5 vs 10 nm).
- Exynos 1080 has 137.05% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 970 (697 K vs 294 K ).
- Exynos 1080 has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 970.
- Exynos 1080 Support 47.65% higher memory bandwidth than Kirin 970 (44 vs 29.8 GB/s).
Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarksAnTuTu 9
| CPU | 77046 | 178651 |
| GPU | 90560 | 251983 |
| Memory | 66398 | 127596 |
| UX | 59977 | 138654 |
| Total score | 293981 | 696884 |
GeekBench 5
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
| Image compression | 76.9 Mpixels/s | 135.1 Mpixels/s |
| Face detection | 14 images/s | 30 images/s |
| Speech recognition | 24.5 words/s | 53.1 words/s |
| Machine learning | 21.8 images/s | 51.7 images/s |
| Camera shooting | 11.4 images/s | 26.5 images/s |
| HTML 5 | 1.46 Mnodes/s | 3.53 Mnodes/s |
| SQLite | 417.7 Mnodes/s | 875.8 Mnodes/s |
3DMark
8%
Kirin 9700%
Exynos 1080Score: 1050
| Stability | 80% | - |
| Graphics test | 6 FPS | - |
| Score | 1050 | - |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of Hisilicon Kirin 970 and Samsung Exynos 1080Display
| Max On-Device Display | 4K @ 60 Hz | WQHD+ @90Hz, FHD+ @144Hz |
| Max On-Display Resolution | 3840 x 2160 | 2960 x 1440 |
| Max External Display | - | - |
| HDR | HDR, HDR-10 | HDR10+ |
| Color Depth | - | - |
| Color Gamut | - | - |
CPU
62%
Kirin 97074%
Exynos 1080
Processor Speed (Frequency)
| Architecture |
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A73 4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53 |
1x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A78 3x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A78 4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55 |
| Cores | 8 | 8 |
| Base Frequency | 1840 MHz | 2000 MHz |
| Turbo Frequency | 2360 MHz | 2800 MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8-A | ARMv8.3-A |
| L1 cache | - | - |
| L2 cache | 0.5 MB | - |
| L3 cache | 2 MB | 4 MB |
| Process | 10 nm | 5 nm |
| Transistor count | 5.5 Billion | - |
| TDP | 9 W | 9 W |
Graphics
| GPU name | Mali G72 MP12 | Mali-G78 MP10 |
| Architecture | Bifrost | Valhall 2 |
| GPU frequency | 850 MHz | 800 MHz |
| Execution units | 12 | 10 |
| Shading units | 192 | 160 |
| FLOPS | 347 Gigaflops | - |
| Vulkan version | 1.0 | 1.1 |
| 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 |
| Max size | 8 GB | 8 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Neural processor (NPU) | Dedicated NPU | Neural Processor |
| Storage type | UFS 2.1 | UFS 3.1 |
| Max display resolution | 3840 x 2160 | 2960 x 1440 |
| Max camera resolution | 1x 48MP, 2x 20MP | 1x 200MP, 2x 32MP |
| Video capture | 4K at 30FPS | 4K at 60FPS |
| Video playback | 4K at 60FPS | 4K at 60FPS |
| 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
Download Speed
4G (MB/s)
5G (MB/s)
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
5G (MB/s)
| Modem | - | - |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 18 | LTE Cat. 18 |
| 5G support | No | Yes |
| Peak Download speed | - | Up to 5100 Mbps |
| Peak Upload speed | - | Up to 1280 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi | 5 | 6 |
| Bluetooth | 4.2 | 5.2 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo |
Info
| Announced Date | September 2017 | November 2020 |
| Class | Flagship | Mid range |
| Model number | Hi3670 | S5E9815 |
| Official page | Kirin 970 official site | Exynos 1080 official site |
Hisilicon Kirin 970
28.25
Review By TenzysTech
Samsung Exynos 1080
36.75
Review By TenzysTech
