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Home > Smartphone processors comparison > Kirin 970 vs Dimensity 6020 – specs and benchmarks

Kirin 970 Vs Dimensity 6020

Kirin 970
VS
Dimensity 6020
Kirin 970
Dimensity 6020
We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Kirin 970 vs Dimensity 6020 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.
  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Benchmarks
  4. AnTuTu v9
  5. GeekBench 5
  6. Specs

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Kirin 970
15
Dimensity 6020
21
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Kirin 970
12
Dimensity 6020
15
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Kirin 970
64
Dimensity 6020
75
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Kirin 970
30
Dimensity 6020
37

Key Differences

Pros of Hisilicon Kirin 970
  • Kirin 970 has 7.27% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 6020 (2360 vs 2200 MHz).
  • Kirin 970 Support 74.58% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 6020 (29.8 vs 17.07 MHz).
Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 6020
  • Dimensity 6020 has 11.76% higher GPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (950 vs 850 MHz).
  • Dimensity 6020 has 14.31% higher memory frequency than Kirin 970 (2133 vs 1866 MHz).
  • Dimensity 6020 has 30% smaller sized transistor than Kirin 970 (7 vs 10 nm).
  • Dimensity 6020 has 27.10% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 970 (374 K vs 294 K ).
  • Dimensity 6020 has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 970.

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks
SoC:
Kirin 970
vs
Dimensity 6020

AnTuTu 9

Kirin 970
293981
Dimensity 6020 +29%
373657
CPU 77046 105422
GPU 90560 84018
Memory 66398 82373
UX 59977 101844
Total score 293981 373657

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score
Kirin 970
390
Dimensity 6020 +46%
569
Multi-Core Score
Kirin 970
1361
Dimensity 6020 +27%
1728
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

8%
Kirin 970
0%
Dimensity 6020
Score: 1050

Stability 80% -
Graphics test 6 FPS -
Score 1050 -

Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Hisilicon Kirin 970 and Mediatek Dimensity 6020

Display

Max On-Device Display 4K @ 60 Hz Full HD+ @120Hz/90Hz
Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
Max External Display - -
HDR HDR, HDR-10 -
Color Depth - -
Color Gamut - -

  CPU

62%
Kirin 970
58%
Dimensity 6020
Processor Speed (Frequency)

Architecture 4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A73
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53
2x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A76
6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
Cores 8 8
Base Frequency 1840 MHz 2000 MHz
Turbo Frequency 2360 MHz 2200 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv8.2-A
L1 cache - -
L2 cache 0.5 MB -
L3 cache 2 MB -
Process 10 nm 7 nm
Transistor count 5.5 Billion -
TDP 9 W -

Graphics

GPU name Mali G72 MP12 Mali-G57 MC2
Architecture Bifrost Valhall
GPU frequency 850 MHz 950 MHz
Execution units 12 2
Shading units 192 32
FLOPS 347 Gigaflops -
Vulkan version 1.0 1.1
OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
DirectX version 12 12

Memory

Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
Memory frequency 1866 MHz 2133 MHz
Bus 4x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 29.8 Gbit/s 17.07 Gbit/s
Max size 8 GB 12 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU) Dedicated NPU Yes
Storage type UFS 2.1 UFS 2.2
Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
Max camera resolution 1x 48MP, 2x 20MP 1x 64MP, 2x 16MP
Video capture 4K at 30FPS 2K at 30FPS
Video playback 4K at 60FPS 2K at 30FPS
Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, VC-1 H.264, H.265, VP9
Audio codecs 32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC

Connectivity

Download Speed
4G (MB/s)
Kirin 970
1200
Dimensity 6020
N/A
5G (MB/s)
Kirin 970
N/A
Dimensity 6020
2770
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
Kirin 970
150
Dimensity 6020
N/A
5G (MB/s)
Kirin 970
N/A
Dimensity 6020
N/A
Modem - -
4G support LTE Cat. 18 Yes
5G support No Yes
Peak Download speed - Up to 2770 Mbps
Peak Upload speed - -
Wi-Fi 5 5
Bluetooth 4.2 5.1
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Announced Date September 2017 March 2023
Class Flagship Low end
Model number Hi3670 -
Official page Kirin 970 official site Dimensity 6020 official site
Hisilicon Kirin 970
Hisilicon Kirin 970
CPU
15%
GPU
12%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
64%

28.25


Review By TenzysTech
Mediatek Dimensity 6020
Mediatek Dimensity 6020
CPU
21%
GPU
15%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%

27.75


Review By TenzysTech

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