Samsung Exynos 8895 Octa vs HiSilicon Kirin 659
Samsung Exynos 8895 Octa
► remove from comparisonThe Samsung Exynos 9 8895 Octa is a System on a Chip (SoC) for smartphones and tablets. It was announced early 2017 and is one of the first SoCs that is produced in 10nm (together with the Snapdragon 835). It first appeared in the Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus and contains four Samsung M1 cores at up to 2.3 GHz and four ARM Cortex-A53 cores to save power. As a GPU it integrates the ARM Mali-G71 MP20. Furthermore, a Cat.16 5CA 1 Gbps (download) and Cat.13 2CA 150 MBps (upload) LTE modem and a LPDDR4x memory controller is integrated. The video engine is capable of en- and decoding 4K UHD 120 fps H.265, H.264 and VP9 according to Samsung.
The performance of the CPU cores seems compareable to the Snapdragon 835 and therefore it should be one of the fastest processors for Android phones in early 2017.
HiSilicon Kirin 659
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The HiSilicon Kirin 659 is an ARM-based octa-core SoC for mid-range smartphones and tablets. It was announced mid 2017 and features eight ARM Cortex-A53 cores. Four cores can be clocked with up to 1.7 GHz (power saving cores) and four with up to 2.36 GHz (performance cores). The difference to the older Kirin 650 and Kirin 655 SoCs is the higher clock speed of the performance cores (2.35 versus 2.1 and 2.0 GHz). The slightly older Kirin 658 is very similar. The 659 is in our benchmarks around 4% faster than the 658 and offers a better LTE radio (Cat. 13).
Furthermore, a ARM Mali-T830 MP2 graphics card (at >=900 MHz), a 64-Bit LPDDR3 memory controller and a dual-sim capable LTE Cat. 6 (max. 300 MBit/s and GSM, WCDMA, UMTS, HSPA+) radio are integrated in the SoC. The processor performance can be compared with the older Kirin 930 and therefore sufficient for daily usage as browsing and non demanding apps. High-end SoCs with Cortex-A57 or A72 cores however should be noticeably faster. The SoC is produced in a modern 16nm FinFET process and is therefore very power efficient.
| Model | Samsung Exynos 8895 Octa | HiSilicon Kirin 659 | ||||||||
| Codename | Mongoose / Cortex-A53 | Cortex-A53 | ||||||||
| Series | Samsung Exynos | |||||||||
| Series: Exynos Mongoose / Cortex-A53 |
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| Clock | 2300 MHz | 2360 MHz | ||||||||
| Cores / Threads | 8 / 8 | 8 / 8 | ||||||||
| Technology | 10 nm | 16 nm | ||||||||
| Features | ARM Mali-T880MP20 GPU , 4x Mongoose (2.3), 4x Cortex-A53 big.LITTLE, LPDDR4x Memory Controller | ARMv8-ISA, Mali-T830 MP2, Dual SIM LTE (Cat. 6), LPDDR3 Memory Controller | ||||||||
| iGPU | ARM Mali-G71 MP20 | ARM Mali-T830 MP2 | ||||||||
| Architecture | ARM | ARM | ||||||||
| Announced | ||||||||||
| Manufacturer | www.samsung.com |
Benchmarks
Average Benchmarks Samsung Exynos 8895 Octa → 100% n=27
Average Benchmarks HiSilicon Kirin 659 → 67% n=27
- Average benchmark values for this graphics card* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance
1 This benchmark is not used for the average calculation
