Product Compare
HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs Samsung Exynos 2500
| SOC | SOC | |
|---|---|---|
| CPU | ||
| Architecture | 4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A734x 1.84 GHz – Cortex-A53 | 1x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X9252x 2.75 GHz – Cortex-A7253x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A7254x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A520 |
| Frequency | 2360 MHz | 3300 MHz |
| Cores | 8 | 10 |
| Instruction set | ARMv8-A | ARMv9.2-A |
| L1 cache | 64 KB | |
| L2 cache | 0 | |
| Process | 16 nm | 3 nm |
| Transistor count | 4 | |
| TDP | 5 W | |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | Samsung |
| Graphics | ||
| GPU name | Mali-G71 MP8 | |
| GPU frequency | 1037 MHz | 1300 MHz |
| Execution units | 8 | |
| Shading units | 16 | |
| Vulkan version | 1.3 | |
| OpenCL version | 2.0 | |
| DirectX version | 11.3 | |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Type | LPDDR4 | LPDDR5X |
| Memory frequency | 1600 MHz | 5333 MHz |
| Bus | 2x 32 Bit | 4x 16 Bit |
| Max bandwidth | 28.8 Gbit/s | 76.8 Gbit/s |
| Multimedia (ISP) | ||
| Neural processor (NPU) | No | |
| Storage type | eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1 | UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1 |
| Max display resolution | 2560 x 1600 | 3840 x 2160 |
| Max camera resolution | 2x 16MP | |
| Video capture | 4K at 30FPS | 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS |
| Video playback | 4K at 30FPS | 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS |
| Video codecs | H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9 | - H.264- H.265- AV1 |
| Audio codecs | AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV | - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV |
| Connectivity | ||
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 12 | LTE Cat. 24 |
| 5G support | No | Yes |
| Download speed | Up to 600 Mbps | |
| Upload speed | Up to 150 Mbps | |
| Wi-Fi | 5 | 7 |
| Bluetooth | 4.2 | 5.4 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC |
| Info | ||
| Announced | Oct 2016 | Aug 2025 |
| Class | Flagship | Flagship |
| Model number | Hi3660 | S5E9955 |
| AI | ||
| NPU | Yes | |
| Benchmarks | ||
| AnTuTu 10 | 278916 | 2519784 |
| Geekbench 6 Single Core | 408 | 2648 |
| Geekbench 6 Multi Core | 1385 | 9881 |