29

Points
Hisilicon Kirin 970

83

Points
Apple A17 Pro
Overview - Kirin 970 Vs A17 Pro

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Kirin 970 vs A17 Pro 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 13
A17 Pro 78
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Kirin 970 10
A17 Pro 82
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Kirin 970 64
A17 Pro 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Kirin 970 29
A17 Pro 83
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Kirin 970 A17 Pro
CPU 77046 399992
GPU 90560 620081
Memory 66398 265579
UX 59977 346005
Total score 293981 1631657
AnTuTu results from iOS and Android are not directly comparable! They won't affect Tenzys Tech scores.
Key Differences

Pros of Apple A17 Pro

  • A17 Pro has 60.17% higher CPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (3780 vs 2360 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 64.47% higher GPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (1398 vs 850 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 71.49% higher memory frequency than Kirin 970 (3200 vs 1866 MHz).
  • A17 Pro has 70% smaller sized transistor than Kirin 970 (3 vs 10 nm).
  • A17 Pro has 455.02% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 970 (1,632 K vs 294 K ).
  • A17 Pro has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 970.
  • A17 Pro Support 71.81% higher memory bandwidth than Kirin 970 (51.2 vs 29.8 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Kirin 970 390
A17 Pro 2999

Multi-Core Score

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Kirin 970 1361
A17 Pro 7779

Image compression

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Kirin 970 76.9
A17 Pro

Face detection

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Kirin 970 14
A17 Pro

Speech recognition

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Kirin 970 24.5
A17 Pro

Machine learning

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Kirin 970 21.8
A17 Pro

Camera shooting

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Kirin 970 11.4
A17 Pro

HTML 5

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Kirin 970 1.46
A17 Pro

SQLite

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Kirin 970 417.7
A17 Pro

3DMark

Stability 80%

Graphics test 6 FPS
Stability 79%

Graphics test 60 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

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 - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2360 MHz

94%
Turbo Clock Speed

3780 MHz

45%
Base Frequency

1840 MHz

50%
Base Frequency

2020 MHz

  • Architecture 4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A73
    4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53
    2x 3.78 GHz
    4x 2.02 GHz
  • Cores 8 6
  • Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv9-A
  • L1 cache - 256 KB
  • L2 cache 0.5 MB 16 MB
  • L3 cache 2 MB -
  • Process 10 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count 5.5 Billion 19 Billion
  • TDP 9 W 8 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali G72 MP12 Apple A17 GPU
  • Architecture Bifrost Apple GPU
  • GPU frequency 850 MHz 1398 MHz
  • Execution units 12 6
  • Shading units 192 128
  • FLOPS 347 Gigaflops 2147.2 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.0 -
  • OpenCL version 2.0 -
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 1866 MHz 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 29.8 Gbit/s 51.2 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • 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
  • 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, VP8, VP9, Motion JPEG
  • Audio codecs 32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 -
  • 5G support No Yes
  • 5G Download Speed - 7500 Mbps
  • 4G Download Speed 1200 Mbps -
  • 5G Upload Speed - 3500 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed 150 Mbps -
  • Wi-Fi 5 6
  • Bluetooth 4.2 5.3
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Hisilicon Kirin 970

CPU
13%
GPU
10%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
64%

Apple A17 Pro

CPU
78%
GPU
82%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%
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