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Hisilicon Kirin 970
Overview - Kirin 970 Vs 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.

Features

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
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

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

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Kirin 970 390
Dimensity 6020 569

Multi-Core Score

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Kirin 970 1361
Dimensity 6020 1728

Image compression

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Kirin 970 76.9
Dimensity 6020

Face detection

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Kirin 970 14
Dimensity 6020

Speech recognition

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Kirin 970 24.5
Dimensity 6020

Machine learning

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Kirin 970 21.8
Dimensity 6020

Camera shooting

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Kirin 970 11.4
Dimensity 6020

HTML 5

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Kirin 970 1.46
Dimensity 6020

SQLite

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Kirin 970 417.7
Dimensity 6020

3DMark

Stability 80%

Graphics test 6 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

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 - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

62%
Turbo Clock Speed

2360 MHz

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

84%
Base Frequency

1840 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • 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
  • 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 -
Full list of technical specifications

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
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 1866 MHz 2133 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 29.8 Gbit/s 17.07 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 12 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

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
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 Yes
  • 5G support No Yes
  • Wi-Fi 5 5
  • Bluetooth 4.2 5.1
  • 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 6020

CPU
21%
GPU
15%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%
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