78

Points
Hisilicon Kirin 970

78

Points
Samsung Exynos 1280
Overview - Kirin 970 Vs Exynos 1280

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Kirin 970 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 970 15
Exynos 1280 24
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Kirin 970 12
Exynos 1280 18
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Kirin 970 64
Exynos 1280 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Kirin 970 30
Exynos 1280 41
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Kirin 970 Exynos 1280
CPU 77046 121972
GPU 90560 104889
Memory 66398 77341
UX 59977 106223
Total score 293981 410425
Key Differences

Pros of Samsung Exynos 1280

  • Exynos 1280 has 1.69% higher CPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (2400 vs 2360 MHz).
  • Exynos 1280 has 17.65% higher GPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (1000 vs 850 MHz).
  • Exynos 1280 has 14.31% higher memory frequency than Kirin 970 (2133 vs 1866 MHz).
  • Exynos 1280 has 50% smaller sized transistor than Kirin 970 (5 vs 10 nm).
  • Exynos 1280 has 39.61% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 970 (410 K vs 294 K ).
  • Exynos 1280 has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 970.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Kirin 970 390
Exynos 1280 733

Multi-Core Score

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Kirin 970 1361
Exynos 1280 1832

Image compression

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Kirin 970 76.9
Exynos 1280 116.6

Face detection

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Kirin 970 14
Exynos 1280 13.5

Speech recognition

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Kirin 970 24.5
Exynos 1280 33.1

Machine learning

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Kirin 970 21.8
Exynos 1280 29.3

Camera shooting

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Kirin 970 11.4
Exynos 1280 13.1

HTML 5

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Kirin 970 1.46
Exynos 1280 1.97

SQLite

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Kirin 970 417.7
Exynos 1280 556.4

3DMark

Stability 80%

Graphics test 6 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 13 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K @ 60 Hz Full HD+ @120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 2960 x 1440
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR, HDR-10 -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

62%
Turbo Clock Speed

2360 MHz

63%
Turbo Clock Speed

2400 MHz

84%
Base Frequency

1840 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A73
    4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53
    2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A78
    6x 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 -
  • Process 10 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count 5.5 Billion -
  • TDP 9 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali G72 MP12 Mali-G68 MP4
  • Architecture Bifrost Valhall 2
  • GPU frequency 850 MHz 1000 MHz
  • Execution units 12 4
  • Shading units 192 48
  • FLOPS 347 Gigaflops -
  • Vulkan version 1.0 1.1
  • OpenCL version 2.0 2.
  • DirectX version 12 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 1866 MHz 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 29.8 Gbit/s -
  • Max Size 8 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Dedicated NPU Yes
  • Storage type UFS 2.1 UFS 2.2
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2960 x 1440
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP, 2x 20MP 1x 108MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K 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
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support No Yes
  • Wi-Fi 5 5
  • 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 1280

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