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Home > Smartphone processors comparison > Kirin 9000 vs Kirin 970 – specs and benchmarks

Kirin 9000 Vs Kirin 970

Kirin 9000
VS
Kirin 970
Kirin 9000
Kirin 970
We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Kirin 9000 vs Kirin 970 SoCs by Hisilicon. 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.
  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Benchmarks
  4. AnTuTu v9
  5. GeekBench 5
  6. Specs

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Kirin 9000
70
Kirin 970
26
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Kirin 9000
60
Kirin 970
43
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Kirin 9000
86
Kirin 970
64
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Kirin 9000
72
Kirin 970
44

Key Differences

Pros of Hisilicon Kirin 9000
  • Kirin 9000 has 32.63% higher CPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (3130 vs 2360 MHz).
  • Kirin 9000 has 47.37% higher memory frequency than Kirin 970 (2750 vs 1866 MHz).
  • Kirin 9000 has 60% smaller sized transistor than Kirin 970 (4 vs 10 nm).
  • Kirin 9000 has 159.33% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 970 (762 K vs 294 K).
  • Kirin 9000 has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 970.
  • Kirin 9000 Support 47.65% higher memory bandwidth then Kirin 970 (44 vs 29.8 MHz).
Pros of Hisilicon Kirin 970
  • Kirin 970 has 11.84% higher GPU clock speed than Kirin 9000 (850 vs 760 MHz).

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks
SoC:
Kirin 9000
vs
Kirin 970

AnTuTu 9

Kirin 9000 +157%
762387
Kirin 970
293981
CPU 194527 77046
GPU 280796 90560
Memory 146761 66398
UX 140303 59977
Total score 762387 293981

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score
Kirin 9000 +170%
1054
Kirin 970
390
Multi-Core Score
Kirin 9000 +174%
3724
Kirin 970
1361
Image compression - 76.9 Mpixels/s
Face detection - 14 images/s
Speech recognition - 24.5 words/s
Machine learning - 21.8 images/s
Camera shooting - 11.4 images/s
HTML 5 - 1.46 Mnodes/s
SQLite - 417.7 Mnodes/s

3DMark

47%
Kirin 9000
8%
Kirin 970
Score: 6040

Stability 54% 80%
Graphics test 36 FPS 6 FPS
Score 6040 1050

Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Hisilicon Kirin 9000 and Hisilicon Kirin 970

Display

Max On-Device Display - 4K @ 60 Hz
Max On-Display Resolution - 3840 x 2160
Max External Display - -
HDR - HDR, HDR-10
Color Depth - -
Color Gamut - -

  CPU

90%
Kirin 9000
68%
Kirin 970
Frequency

Architecture 1x 3.13 GHz Cortex-A77
3x 2.54 GHz Cortex-A77
4x 2.05 GHz Cortex-A55
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A73
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53
Cores 8 8
Base Frequency 2050 MHz 1840 MHz
Turbo Frequency 3130 MHz 2360 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8-A
L1 cache 64 KB -
L2 cache 0.512 MB 0.5 MB
L3 cache 4 MB 2 MB
Process 4 10
Transistor count 15.3 Billion 5.5 Billion
TDP 4 W 9 W

Graphics

GPU name Mali-G78 MP24 Mali G72 MP12
Architecture Valhall 2 Bifrost
GPU frequency 760 MHz 850 MHz
Execution units 24 12
Shading units 384 192
FLOPS 1076 Gigaflops 347 Gigaflops
Vulkan version 1.1 1.0
OpenCL version 2 2.0
DirectX version 12 12

Memory

Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
Memory frequency 2750 MHz 1866 MHz
Bus 4x16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 44 Gbit/s 29.8 Gbit/s
Max size 16 GB 8 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU) AI accelerator Dedicated NPU
Storage type UFS 3.1 UFS 2.1
Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 3840 x 2160
Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP 1x 48MP, 2x 20MP
Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, VC-1
Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV 32 [email protected] kHz, HD-audio

Connectivity

Download Speed
4G (MB/s)
Kirin 9000
N/A
Kirin 970
1200
5G (MB/s)
Kirin 9000
N/A
Kirin 970
N/A
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
Kirin 9000
N/A
Kirin 970
150
5G (MB/s)
Kirin 9000
2560
Kirin 970
N/A
Modem Balong 5000 -
4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
5G support Yes No
Peak Download speed Up to 7168 Mbps -
Peak Upload speed Up to 2560 Mbps -
Wi-Fi 6 5
Bluetooth 5.2 4.2
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Announced Date October 2020 September 2017
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number - Hi3670
Official page Kirin 9000 official site Kirin 970 official site
Hisilicon Kirin 9000
Hisilicon Kirin 9000
CPU
65%
GPU
60%
Memory
32%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

62


Review By TenzysTech
Hisilicon Kirin 970
Hisilicon Kirin 970
CPU
26%
GPU
43%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
64%

33.25


Review By TenzysTech

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