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Home > Smartphone processors comparison > Kirin 970 vs Dimensity 8100 – specs and benchmarks

Kirin 970 Vs Dimensity 8100

Kirin 970
VS
Dimensity 8100
Kirin 970
Dimensity 8100
We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Kirin 970 vs Dimensity 8100 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 8100
42
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Kirin 970
12
Dimensity 8100
38
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Kirin 970
64
Dimensity 8100
82
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Kirin 970
30
Dimensity 8100
54

Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 8100
  • Dimensity 8100 has 20.76% higher CPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (2850 vs 2360 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8100 has 7.29% higher GPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (912 vs 850 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8100 has 242.98% higher memory frequency than Kirin 970 (6400 vs 1866 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8100 has 50% smaller sized transistor than Kirin 970 (5 vs 10 nm).
  • Dimensity 8100 has 175.03% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 970 (809 K vs 294 K ).
  • Dimensity 8100 has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 970.
  • Dimensity 8100 Support 71.81% higher memory bandwidth than Kirin 970 (51.2 vs 29.8 GB/s).

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks
SoC:
Kirin 970
vs
Dimensity 8100

AnTuTu 9

Kirin 970
293981
Dimensity 8100 +171%
808532
CPU 77046 204875
GPU 90560 311503
Memory 66398 130636
UX 59977 161518
Total score 293981 808532

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score
Kirin 970
390
Dimensity 8100 +148%
969
Multi-Core Score
Kirin 970
1361
Dimensity 8100 +200%
4081
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
43%
Dimensity 8100
Score: 5620

Stability 80% 94%
Graphics test 6 FPS 34 FPS
Score 1050 5620

Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Hisilicon Kirin 970 and Mediatek Dimensity 8100

Display

Max On-Device Display 4K @ 60 Hz WQHD+ @120Hz / Full HD+ @168Hz
Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 2960 x 1440
Max External Display - -
HDR HDR, HDR-10 HDR10+
Color Depth - -
Color Gamut - -

  CPU

62%
Kirin 970
75%
Dimensity 8100
Processor Speed (Frequency)

Architecture 4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A73
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53
4x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-A78
4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
Cores 8 8
Base Frequency 1840 MHz 2000 MHz
Turbo Frequency 2360 MHz 2850 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv8.2-A
L1 cache - -
L2 cache 0.5 MB -
L3 cache 2 MB 4 MB
Process 10 nm 5 nm
Transistor count 5.5 Billion -
TDP 9 W 8 W

Graphics

GPU name Mali G72 MP12 Mali-G610 MC6
Architecture Bifrost Valhall 2
GPU frequency 850 MHz 912 MHz
Execution units 12 6
Shading units 192 -
FLOPS 347 Gigaflops -
Vulkan version 1.0 1.1
OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
DirectX version 12 12

Memory

Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
Memory frequency 1866 MHz 6400 MHz
Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 29.8 Gbit/s 51.2 Gbit/s
Max size 8 GB -

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU) Dedicated NPU APU 580 (multi-core)
Storage type UFS 2.1 UFS 3.1
Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2960 x 1440
Max camera resolution 1x 48MP, 2x 20MP 1x 200MP
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, AV1, 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 8100
N/A
5G (MB/s)
Kirin 970
N/A
Dimensity 8100
4700
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
Kirin 970
150
Dimensity 8100
N/A
5G (MB/s)
Kirin 970
N/A
Dimensity 8100
N/A
Modem - R16-ready 5G modem
4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 21
5G support No Yes
Peak Download speed - Up to 4700 Mbps
Peak Upload speed - -
Wi-Fi 5 6
Bluetooth 4.2 5.3
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC

Info

Announced Date September 2017 March 2022
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number Hi3670 MT6895Z/TCZA
Official page Kirin 970 official site Dimensity 8100 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 8100
Mediatek Dimensity 8100
CPU
42%
GPU
38%
Memory
75%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

40.5


Review By TenzysTech

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