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Hisilicon Kirin 970

Kirin 970

78

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Apple A14 Bionic

A14 Bionic
Overview - Kirin 970 Vs A14 Bionic

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Kirin 970 vs A14 Bionic SoCs by Hisilicon and Apple respectively. We've now weighed the advantages and disadvantages of these 8-core and 6-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
A14 Bionic 50
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Kirin 970 12
A14 Bionic 47
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Kirin 970 64
A14 Bionic 82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Kirin 970 30
A14 Bionic 60
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Kirin 970 A14 Bionic
CPU 77046 203493
GPU 90560 284242
Memory 66398 131989
UX 59977 131211
Total score 293981 750935
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
Key Differences

Pros of Apple A14 Bionic

  • A14 Bionic has 31.36% higher CPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (3100 vs 2360 MHz).
  • A14 Bionic has 14.31% higher memory frequency than Kirin 970 (2133 vs 1866 MHz).
  • A14 Bionic has 50% smaller sized transistor than Kirin 970 (5 vs 10 nm).
  • A14 Bionic has 155.44% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 970 (751 K vs 294 K ).
  • A14 Bionic has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 970.
  • A14 Bionic 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
A14 Bionic 1611

Multi-Core Score

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Kirin 970 1361
A14 Bionic 4209

Image compression

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Kirin 970 76.9
A14 Bionic 171.5

Face detection

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Kirin 970 14
A14 Bionic 33.6

Speech recognition

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Kirin 970 24.5
A14 Bionic 94.8

Machine learning

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Kirin 970 21.8
A14 Bionic 93.1

Camera shooting

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Kirin 970 11.4
A14 Bionic 38.7

HTML 5

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Kirin 970 1.46
A14 Bionic 4.5

SQLite

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Kirin 970 417.7
A14 Bionic 1060

3DMark

5%
Kirin 970
Stability 80%

Graphics test 6 FPS
43%
A14 Bionic
Stability 77%

Graphics test 50 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K @ 60 Hz Full HD+ (2.7K) @ 60Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 2732 x 2048
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR, HDR-10 -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

62%
Turbo Clock Speed

2360 MHz

82%
Turbo Clock Speed

3100 MHz

84%
Base Frequency

1840 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A73
    4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53
     2x 3.1 GHz – Firestorm
    4x 1.8 GHz – Icestorm
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv8.5-A
  • L1 cache - 128 KB
  • L2 cache 0.5 MB 8 MB
  • L3 cache 2 MB -
  • Process 10 nm 5 nm
  • Transistor count 5.5 Billion 11.8 Billion
  • TDP 9 W 6 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali G72 MP12 Apple A14 GPU
  • Architecture Bifrost -
  • GPU frequency 850 MHz -
  • Execution units 12 4
  • Shading units 192 -
  • FLOPS 347 Gigaflops 998 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.0 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version 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 6 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Dedicated NPU Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 2.1 NVMe
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2732 x 2048
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP, 2x 20MP
  • 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, Motion JPEG
  • Audio codecs 32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV, AC-3, E-AC-3, AAX, AAX+
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support No Yes
  • Wi-Fi 5 6
  • Bluetooth 4.2 5.0
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Hisilicon Kirin 970

Hisilicon Kirin 970
CPU
15%
GPU
12%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
64%

Apple A14 Bionic

Apple A14 Bionic
CPU
50%
GPU
47%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%
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