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Samsung Exynos 2500 vs HiSilicon Kirin 980

SOC SOC
CPU
Architecture 1x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X9252x 2.75 GHz – Cortex-A7253x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A7254x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A520 2x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A762x 1.92 GHz – Cortex-A764x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
Frequency 3300 MHz 2600 MHz
Cores 10 8
Instruction set ARMv9.2-A ARMv8.2-A
Process 3 nm 7 nm
Manufacturing Samsung TSMC
L1 cache 512 KB
L2 cache 0
L3 cache 0
Transistor count 6.9
TDP 6 W
Graphics
GPU frequency 1300 MHz 720 MHz
GPU name Mali-G76 MP10
Execution units 10
Shading units 36
Vulkan version 1.3
OpenCL version 2.0
DirectX version 12
Memory
Memory Type LPDDR5X LPDDR4X
Memory frequency 5333 MHz 2133 MHz
Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 76.8 Gbit/s 34.1 Gbit/s
AI
NPU Yes
Multimedia (ISP)
Storage type UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1 UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0
Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 3120 x 1440
Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 30FPS
Video playback 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 30FPS
Video codecs - H.264- H.265- AV1 H.264, H.265, VP9
Audio codecs - AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Neural processor (NPU) Yes
Max camera resolution 1x 48MP, 2x 20MP
Connectivity
4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 21
5G support Yes No
Wi-Fi 7 6
Bluetooth 5.4 5.0
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Download speed Up to 1400 Mbps
Upload speed Up to 200 Mbps
Info
Announced Aug 2025 Aug 2018
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number S5E9955
Official page Official Link ↗
Benchmarks
AnTuTu 10 2519784 583410
Geekbench 6 Single Core 2648 835
Geekbench 6 Multi Core 9881 2132