78

Points
Hisilicon Kirin 970

78

Points
Samsung Exynos 1080
Overview - 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.

Features

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
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

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

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Kirin 970 390
Exynos 1080 833

Multi-Core Score

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Kirin 970 1361
Exynos 1080 2890

Image compression

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Kirin 970 76.9
Exynos 1080 135.1

Face detection

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Kirin 970 14
Exynos 1080 30

Speech recognition

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Kirin 970 24.5
Exynos 1080 53.1

Machine learning

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Kirin 970 21.8
Exynos 1080 51.7

Camera shooting

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Kirin 970 11.4
Exynos 1080 26.5

HTML 5

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Kirin 970 1.46
Exynos 1080 3.53

SQLite

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Kirin 970 417.7
Exynos 1080 875.8

3DMark

Stability 80%

Graphics test 6 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

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 - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

62%
Turbo Clock Speed

2360 MHz

74%
Turbo Clock Speed

2800 MHz

84%
Base Frequency

1840 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • 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
  • 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
Full list of technical specifications

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
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

memory-frequency

Memory frequency

1866 MHz
memory-frequency

Memory frequency

2750 MHz
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

44 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max Size

8 GB
memory-frequency

Max Size

8 GB

  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

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
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

4G Speed
  • 1200 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 150 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • 1200 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 200 Mbps
    Upload Speed
5G Speed
  • -
    Download Speed
  • -
    Upload Speed
  • 5100 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 1280 Mbps
    Upload Speed

  • Modem - -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support No Yes
  • Wi-Fi 5 6
  • Bluetooth 4.2 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Hisilicon Kirin 970

CPU
15%
GPU
12%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
64%

Samsung Exynos 1080

CPU
34%
GPU
31%
Memory
32%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%
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