HiSilicon Kirin 9000 5G vs Samsung Exynos 7420

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Which processor is better? We compared HiSilicon Kirin 9000 5G with Samsung Exynos 7420. Compare, analyze the specifications. Find out their scores in popular benchmarks (AnTuTu 10, GeekBench 6 Single-Core, GeekBench 6 Multi-Core) and who is the winner?

CPU cores and architecture

Architecture	1x 3.13 GHz – Cortex-A77 3x 2.54 GHz – Cortex-A77 4x 2.05 GHz – Cortex-A55	4x 2.1 GHz – Cortex-A57 4x 1.5 GHz – Cortex-A53
Number of cores	8	8
Instruction Set	ARMv8.2-A	ARMv8-A
Lithography	5 nm	14 nm
Number of transistors	15300 million	2000 million
TDP	6 Watt	7 Watt
Neural Processing	Ascend Lite (2x) + Ascend Tiny (1x), HUAWEI Da Vinci Architecture 2.0

Memory (RAM)

Max amount	up to 16 GB	up to 4 GB
Memory type	LPDDR5	LPDDR4
Memory frequency	2750 MHz
Memory-bus	4x16 bit	2x32 bit

Storage

Storage specification

UFS 3.1

UFS 2.0

Graphics

GPU name	Mali-G78 MP24	Mali-T760 MP8
GPU Architecture	Valhall	Midgard
GPU frequency	760 MHz	770 MHz
Execution units	24	8
Shaders	384	128
DirectX	12
OpenCL API	2.1	1.2
OpenGL API	ES 3.2	ES 3.2
Vulkan API	1.2	1.0

Camera, Video, Display

Max screen resolution	3840x2160	4096x2160
Max camera resolution		1x 20MP, 1x 8MP
Max Video Capture	4K@60fps	4K@30fps
Video codec support	H.264 (AVC) H.265 (HEVC) VP8 VP9	H.264 (AVC) H.265 (HEVC) VP9

Wireless

4G network	Yes	Yes
5G network	Yes	Yes
Peak Download Speed	4.6 Gbps	0.45 Gbps
Peak Upload Speed	2.5 Gbps	0.15 Gbps
Wi-Fi	6 (802.11ax)	4 (802.11n)
Bluetooth	5.2	4.1
Satellite navigation	BeiDou GPS Galileo GLONASS NavIC	BeiDou GPS Galileo GLONASS