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Hisilicon Kirin 970

Kirin 970

78

Points
Mediatek Dimensity 720

Dimensity 720
Overview - Kirin 970 Vs Dimensity 720

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Kirin 970 vs Dimensity 720 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.

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Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Kirin 970 15
Dimensity 720 20
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Kirin 970 12
Dimensity 720 14
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Kirin 970 64
Dimensity 720 75
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Kirin 970 30
Dimensity 720 36
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Kirin 970 Dimensity 720
CPU 77046 94857
GPU 90560 73751
Memory 66398 64277
UX 59977 61339
Total score 293981 294224
Key Differences

Pros of Hisilicon Kirin 970

  • Kirin 970 has 18.00% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 720 (2360 vs 2000 MHz).
  • Kirin 970 Support 74.58% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 720 (29.8 vs 17.07 MHz).

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 720

  • Dimensity 720 has 14.31% higher memory frequency than Kirin 970 (2133 vs 1866 MHz).
  • Dimensity 720 has 30% smaller sized transistor than Kirin 970 (7 vs 10 nm).
  • Dimensity 720 has 0.08% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 970 (294 K vs 294 K ).
  • Dimensity 720 has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 970.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Kirin 970 390
Dimensity 720 523

Multi-Core Score

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Kirin 970 1361
Dimensity 720 1707

Image compression

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Kirin 970 76.9
Dimensity 720 98.5

Face detection

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Kirin 970 14
Dimensity 720 14.3

Speech recognition

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Kirin 970 24.5
Dimensity 720 31.3

Machine learning

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Kirin 970 21.8
Dimensity 720 27

Camera shooting

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Kirin 970 11.4
Dimensity 720 14.9

HTML 5

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Kirin 970 1.46
Dimensity 720 2

SQLite

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Kirin 970 417.7
Dimensity 720 510.9

3DMark

5%
Kirin 970
Stability 80%

Graphics test 6 FPS
6%
Dimensity 720
Stability 97%

Graphics test 7 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K @ 60 Hz Full HD+ @ 90 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR, HDR-10 HDR10, HDR10+
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

62%
Turbo Clock Speed

2360 MHz

53%
Turbo Clock Speed

2000 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 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 10 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali G72 MP12 Mali-G57 MC3
  • Architecture Bifrost Valhall
  • GPU frequency 850 MHz 850 MHz
  • Execution units 12 3
  • Shading units 192 48
  • 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 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 AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support No Yes
  • Wi-Fi 5 5
  • Bluetooth 4.2 5.1
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
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%

Mediatek Dimensity 720

Mediatek Dimensity 720
CPU
20%
GPU
14%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%
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