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Hisilicon Kirin 970
Overview - Kirin 970 Vs Dimensity 8050

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Kirin 970 vs Dimensity 8050 SoCs by Hisilicon and Mediatek respectively. We've now weighed the advantages and disadvantages of these 8-core CPUs on the basis of their Geekbench, Antutu and 3DMark benchmarks with their technical specifications.

Features

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Kirin 970 15
Dimensity 8050 39
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Kirin 970 12
Dimensity 8050 31
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Kirin 970 64
Dimensity 8050 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Kirin 970 30
Dimensity 8050 50
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Kirin 970 Dimensity 8050
CPU 77046 217200
GPU 90560 208098
Memory 66398 138670
UX 59977 138035
Total score 293981 702003
Key Differences

Pros of MediaTek Dimensity 8050

  • Dimensity 8050 has 27.12% higher CPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (3000 vs 2360 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8050 has 14.31% higher memory frequency than Kirin 970 (2133 vs 1866 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8050 has 40% smaller sized transistor than Kirin 970 (6 vs 10 nm).
  • Dimensity 8050 has 138.79% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 970 (702 K vs 294 K ).
  • Dimensity 8050 has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 970.
  • Dimensity 8050 Support 14.43% higher memory bandwidth than Kirin 970 (34.1 vs 29.8 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Kirin 970 390
Dimensity 8050 964

Multi-Core Score

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Kirin 970 1361
Dimensity 8050 3261

Image compression

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Kirin 970 76.9
Dimensity 8050

Face detection

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Kirin 970 14
Dimensity 8050

Speech recognition

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Kirin 970 24.5
Dimensity 8050

Machine learning

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Kirin 970 21.8
Dimensity 8050

Camera shooting

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Kirin 970 11.4
Dimensity 8050

HTML 5

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Kirin 970 1.46
Dimensity 8050

SQLite

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Kirin 970 417.7
Dimensity 8050

3DMark

Stability 80%

Graphics test 6 FPS
Stability 96%

Graphics test 27 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K @ 60 Hz QHD+ @ 90 Hz, FHD+ @ 168 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR, HDR-10 -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

62%
Turbo Clock Speed

2360 MHz

79%
Turbo Clock Speed

3000 MHz

84%
Base Frequency

1840 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A73
    4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53
    1x 3 GHz – Cortex-A78
    3x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A78
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache 0.5 MB -
  • L3 cache 2 MB -
  • Process 10 nm 6 nm
  • Transistor count 5.5 Billion -
  • TDP 9 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali G72 MP12 Mali-G77 MC9
  • Architecture Bifrost Valhall
  • GPU frequency 850 MHz 850 MHz
  • Execution units 12 9
  • Shading units 192 144
  • FLOPS 347 Gigaflops 980 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.0 1.1
  • OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
  • DirectX version 12 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 1866 MHz 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 29.8 Gbit/s 34.1 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Dedicated NPU MediaTek APU 570
  • Storage type UFS 2.1 UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP, 2x 20MP 1x 200MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, VC-1 H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9
  • Audio codecs 32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 19
  • 5G support No Yes
  • Wi-Fi 5 6
  • Bluetooth 4.2 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Hisilicon Kirin 970

CPU
15%
GPU
12%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
64%

MediaTek Dimensity 8050

CPU
39%
GPU
31%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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