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Home > Smartphone processors comparison > Kirin 970 vs Exynos 1080 – specs and benchmarks

Kirin 970 Vs Exynos 1080

Kirin 970
VS
Exynos 1080
Kirin 970
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.
  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Benchmarks
  4. AnTuTu v9
  5. GeekBench 5
  6. Specs

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Kirin 970
15
Exynos 1080
34
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Kirin 970
12
Exynos 1080
31
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Kirin 970
64
Exynos 1080
82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Kirin 970
30
Exynos 1080
49

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 benchmarks
SoC:
Kirin 970
vs
Exynos 1080

AnTuTu 9

Kirin 970
293981
Exynos 1080 +136%
696884
CPU 77046 178651
GPU 90560 251983
Memory 66398 127596
UX 59977 138654
Total score 293981 696884

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score
Kirin 970
390
Exynos 1080 +114%
833
Multi-Core Score
Kirin 970
1361
Exynos 1080 +112%
2890
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 970
0%
Exynos 1080
Score: 1050

Stability 80% -
Graphics test 6 FPS -
Score 1050 -

Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Hisilicon Kirin 970 and Samsung Exynos 1080

Display

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 970
74%
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)
Kirin 970
1200
Exynos 1080
1200
5G (MB/s)
Kirin 970
N/A
Exynos 1080
5100
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
Kirin 970
150
Exynos 1080
200
5G (MB/s)
Kirin 970
N/A
Exynos 1080
1280
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
Hisilicon Kirin 970
CPU
15%
GPU
12%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
64%

28.25


Review By TenzysTech
Samsung Exynos 1080
Samsung Exynos 1080
CPU
34%
GPU
31%
Memory
32%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

36.75


Review By TenzysTech

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