Samsung Exynos 5420 vs UNISOC T618. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Family
  Samsung Exynos UNISOC 4G
• CPU group
  Samsung Exynos 5260/5410/5420/5422/5800 UNISOC 4G 12nm
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Generation
  3 --

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• CPU Cores / Threads
  8 / 8 8 / 8
• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• A-Core
  4x Cortex-A15 2x Cortex-A75
• B-Core
  4x Cortex-A7 6x Cortex-A55
• Overclocking
  No No

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  ARM Mali-T628 MP6 ARM Mali-G52 MP2
• GPU frequency
  0.53 GHz 0.85 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  6 2
• Shader
  96 32
• Max. displays
  1 2
• Generation
  Midgard 2 Bifrost 2
• Direct X
  11 12
• Technology
  32nm 16 nm
• Release date
  Q4/2012 Q3/2020

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by UNISOC T618 and Samsung Exynos 5420. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  LPDDR3e-933 LPDDR3-933LPDDR4-1866LPDDR4X-1866
• Max. Memory
  --
• Memory channels
  0 2 (Dual Channel)
• ECC
  No No
• PCIe
  --
• AES-NI
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Samsung Exynos 5420 and UNISOC T618 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Samsung Exynos 5420 and Samsung Exynos 5420, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv7-A32 (32 bit) ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  --
• L2-Cache
  2.50 MB --
• Architecture
  Cortex-A15 / Cortex-A7 --
• Technology
  28 nm 12 nm
• Virtualization
  None None
• Socket
  N/A --
• Release date
  Q3/2013 Q3/2019