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Hisilicon Kirin 970
Overview - Kirin 970 Vs Dimensity 7030

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Kirin 970 vs Dimensity 7030 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 7030 33
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Kirin 970 12
Dimensity 7030 21
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Kirin 970 64
Dimensity 7030 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Kirin 970 30
Dimensity 7030 44
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Kirin 970 Dimensity 7030
CPU 77046 163674
GPU 90560 81587
Memory 66398 121193
UX 59977 151408
Total score 293981 517862
Key Differences

Pros of MediaTek Dimensity 7030

  • Dimensity 7030 has 5.93% higher CPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (2500 vs 2360 MHz).
  • Dimensity 7030 has 17.65% higher GPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (1000 vs 850 MHz).
  • Dimensity 7030 has 71.49% higher memory frequency than Kirin 970 (3200 vs 1866 MHz).
  • Dimensity 7030 has 40% smaller sized transistor than Kirin 970 (6 vs 10 nm).
  • Dimensity 7030 has 76.15% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 970 (518 K vs 294 K ).
  • Dimensity 7030 has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 970.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Kirin 970 390
Dimensity 7030 1036

Multi-Core Score

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Kirin 970 1361
Dimensity 7030 2440

Image compression

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Kirin 970 76.9
Dimensity 7030

Face detection

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Kirin 970 14
Dimensity 7030

Speech recognition

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Kirin 970 24.5
Dimensity 7030

Machine learning

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Kirin 970 21.8
Dimensity 7030

Camera shooting

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Kirin 970 11.4
Dimensity 7030

HTML 5

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Kirin 970 1.46
Dimensity 7030

SQLite

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Kirin 970 417.7
Dimensity 7030

3DMark

Stability 80%

Graphics test 6 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K @ 60 Hz FHD+@144Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR, HDR-10 HDR10+ Adaptive, HLG and Dolby Vision
  • Color Depth - 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

62%
Turbo Clock Speed

2360 MHz

66%
Turbo Clock Speed

2500 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 2.5 GHz – Cortex-A78
    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 6 nm
  • Transistor count 5.5 Billion -
  • TDP 9 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali G72 MP12 Mali-G610 MP3
  • Architecture Bifrost Valhall 3rd gen
  • GPU frequency 850 MHz 1000 MHz
  • Execution units 12 3
  • Shading units 192 -
  • FLOPS 347 Gigaflops -
  • Vulkan version 1.0 1.3
  • OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 1866 MHz 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 29.8 Gbit/s -
  • Max Size 8 GB 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Dedicated NPU MediaTek APU 550
  • Storage type UFS 2.1 UFS 2.1, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP, 2x 20MP 1x 108MP, 2x 20MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K 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 AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support No Yes
  • Wi-Fi 5 6E
  • Bluetooth 4.2 5.2
  • 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 7030

CPU
33%
GPU
21%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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