Comparing HiSilicon Kirin 960 vs HiSilicon Kirin 960

description_compare HiSilicon Kirin 960 and Samsung Exynos 7880

• Name
  HiSilicon Kirin 960 Samsung Exynos 7880
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  HiSilicon Kirin Samsung Exynos
• Generation
  5 1
• CPU group
  HiSilicon Kirin 960 Samsung Exynos 7570/7870/7880

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

• Frequency
  1.80 GHz 1.90 GHz
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) normal

• GPU name
  ARM Mali-G71 MP8 ARM Mali-T830 MP3
• GPU frequency
  0.90 GHz 0.60 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 0.60 GHz
• Execution units
  8 3
• Shader
  256 48
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB --
• Max. displays
  2 2
• Generation
  Bifrost 1 Midgard 4
• Technology
  16 nm 28nm
• Release date
  Q2/2016 Q4/2015

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode Decode
• h264
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  No No
• VP8
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode / Encode No
• VC-1
  No No
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

• Memory type
  LPDDR4-1600 LPDDR4-1600
• Max. Memory
  6 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  2 0

• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv8-A64 (64 bit) ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  None None
• L2-Cache
  -- 2.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  4.00 MB --
• Architecture
  Cortex-A73 / Cortex-A53 Cortex-A53
• Technology
  16 nm 14 nm
• Socket
  N/A N/A
• Release date
  Q4/2016 Q1/2017