HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G vs Samsung Exynos 1330

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HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G CPU1 vs CPU2 Samsung Exynos 1330
HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G Samsung Exynos 1330

CPU comparison

HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G or Samsung Exynos 1330 - which processor is faster? In this comparison we look at the differences and analyze which of these two CPUs is better. We compare the technical data and benchmark results.

The HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G has 8 cores with 8 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 2.86 GHz. Up to 8 GB of memory is supported in 4 memory channels. The HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G was released in Q3/2019.

The Samsung Exynos 1330 has 8 cores with 8 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 2.40 GHz. The CPU supports up to GB of memory in 0 memory channels. The Samsung Exynos 1330 was released in Q1/2023.
HiSilicon Kirin (29) Family Samsung Exynos (47)
HiSilicon Kirin 990 (3) CPU group Samsung Exynos 13xx (2)
8 Generation 7
Cortex-A76 / Cortex-A55 Architecture Cortex-A78/-A55
Mobile Segment Mobile
-- Predecessor --
-- Successor --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G has 8 CPU cores and can calculate 8 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G is 2.86 GHz while the Samsung Exynos 1330 has 8 CPU cores and 8 threads can calculate simultaneously. The clock frequency of the Samsung Exynos 1330 is at 2.40 GHz.

HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G Characteristic Samsung Exynos 1330
8 Cores 8
8 Threads 8
hybrid (Prime / big.LITTLE) Core architecture hybrid (big.LITTLE)
No Hyperthreading No
No Overclocking ? No
2.86 GHz
2x Cortex-A76
A-Core 2.40 GHz
2x Cortex-A78
2.36 GHz
2x Cortex-A76
B-Core 2.00 GHz
6x Cortex-A55
1.95 GHz
4x Cortex-A55
C-Core --

NPU AI performance

The performance values of the processor's AI unit. The isolated NPU performance is specified here, the total AI performance (NPU+CPU+iGPU) can be higher. Processors with support for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors.

HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G Characteristic Samsung Exynos 1330
HUAWEI HiAI 2.0 AI hardware --
Da Vinci Architecture. 1x Ascend Lite + 1x Ascend Tiny AI specifications --
-- NPU + CPU + iGPU --

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

The HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G or Samsung Exynos 1330 has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.

ARM Mali-G76 MP14 GPU ARM Mali-G68 MP2
0.60 GHz GPU frequency --
0.60 GHz GPU (Turbo) --
Bifrost 3 GPU Generation Vallhall 2
7 nm Technology 6 nm
2 Max. displays 1
14 Compute units 2
224 Shader 32
No Hardware Raytracing No
No Frame Generation No
4 GB Max. GPU Memory --
12 DirectX Version 12

Hardware codec support

A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.

ARM Mali-G76 MP14 GPU ARM Mali-G68 MP2
Decode / Encode Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit) Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit) Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec VP9 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec VP8 Decode / Encode
No Codec AV1 Decode
Decode / Encode Codec AVC Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec VC-1 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec JPEG Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe

The HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G can use up to 8 GB of memory in 4 memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is --. The Samsung Exynos 1330 supports up to GB of memory in 0 memory channels and achieves a memory bandwidth of up to --.

HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G Characteristic Samsung Exynos 1330
LPDDR4X-4266 Memory LPDDR5, LPDDR4X
8 GB Max. Memory
4 (Quad Channel) Memory channels 0
-- Max. Bandwidth --
No ECC No
-- L2 Cache --
2.00 MB L3 Cache --
-- PCIe version --
-- PCIe lanes --
-- PCIe Bandwidth --

Thermal Management

The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G is 6 W, while the Samsung Exynos 1330 has a TDP of --. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently.

HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G Characteristic Samsung Exynos 1330
6 W TDP (PL1 / PBP) --
-- TDP (PL2) --
-- TDP up --
-- TDP down --
-- Tjunction max. --

Technical details

The HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G is manufactured in 7 nm and has 2.00 MB cache. The Samsung Exynos 1330 is manufactured in 5 nm and has a 0.00 MB cache.

HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G Characteristic Samsung Exynos 1330
7 nm Technology 5 nm
Chiplet Chip design Unknown
Armv8-A (64 bit) Instruction set (ISA) Armv8-A (64 bit)
-- ISA extensions --
-- Socket --
None Virtualization None
No AES-NI No
Android Operating systems Android, Windows ARM
Q3/2019 Release date Q1/2023
-- Release price --
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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 2 CPU benchmarks
HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G (100%)
Samsung Exynos 1330 (91%)
⌀ Multi core performance in 2 CPU benchmarks
HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G (100%)
Samsung Exynos 1330 (71%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G
8C 8T @ 2.86 GHz
757 (99%)
Samsung Exynos 1330 Samsung Exynos 1330
8C 8T @ 2.40 GHz
768 (100%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G
8C 8T @ 2.86 GHz
2855 (100%)
Samsung Exynos 1330 Samsung Exynos 1330
8C 8T @ 2.40 GHz
2167 (76%)

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.
HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G
8C 8T @ 2.86 GHz
996 (100%)
Samsung Exynos 1330 Samsung Exynos 1330
8C 8T @ 2.40 GHz
809 (81%)

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.
HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G
8C 8T @ 2.86 GHz
3244 (100%)
Samsung Exynos 1330 Samsung Exynos 1330
8C 8T @ 2.40 GHz
2118 (65%)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.
HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G
ARM Mali-G76 MP14 @ 0.60 GHz
645 (100%)
Samsung Exynos 1330 Samsung Exynos 1330
ARM Mali-G68 MP2 @ 0.00 GHz
0 (0%)

Devices using this processor

HiSilicon Kirin 990E 5G Samsung Exynos 1330
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