Samsung Exynos 2500 vs HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

SOC · Specs Compare

SOC Samsung Exynos 2500 Samsung

SOC HiSilicon Kirin 990 4G

CPU

Architecture

1x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X9252x 2.75 GHz – Cortex-A7253x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A7254x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A520

2x 2.86 GHz – Cortex-A762x 2.09 GHz – Cortex-A764x 1.86 GHz – Cortex-A55

Frequency

3300 MHz

2860 MHz

Cores

Instruction set

ARMv9.2-A

ARMv8.2-A

Process

3 nm

7 nm

Manufacturing

Samsung

TSMC

L1 cache

—

512 KB

L2 cache

—

Transistor count

—

TDP

—

6 W

Graphics

GPU frequency

1300 MHz

600 MHz

GPU name

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Mali-G76 MP16

Execution units

—

Shading units

—

Vulkan version

—

1.3

OpenCL version

—

2.0

DirectX version

—

Memory

Memory Type

LPDDR5X

LPDDR4X

Memory frequency

5333 MHz

2133 MHz

Bus

4x 16 Bit

Max bandwidth

76.8 Gbit/s

34.1 Gbit/s

NPU

Yes

—

Multimedia (ISP)

Storage type

UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1

UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0

Max display resolution

3840 x 2160

3360 x 1440

Video capture

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video playback

8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS

4K at 60FPS

Video codecs

- H.264- H.265- AV1

H.264, H.265, VC-1

Audio codecs

- AAC- AIFF- CAF- MP3- MP4- WAV

AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Neural processor (NPU)

—

Da Vinci

Connectivity

4G support

LTE Cat. 24

LTE Cat. 19

5G support

Yes

Wi-Fi

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

Oct 2019

Class

Flagship

Model number

S5E9955

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Official page

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Benchmark

AnTuTu 10

2,519,784

695,853

Geekbench 6

2,648

990

Geekbench 6

9,881

3,179

FP32 (float)

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691

▲ Specs Compare Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.