78

Points
Hisilicon Kirin 970

78

Points
Mediatek Dimensity 820
Overview - Kirin 970 Vs Dimensity 820

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Kirin 970 vs Dimensity 820 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 820 27
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Kirin 970 12
Dimensity 820 20
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Kirin 970 64
Dimensity 820 75
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Kirin 970 30
Dimensity 820 41
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Key Differences

Pros of Hisilicon Kirin 970

  • Kirin 970 Support 74.58% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 820 (29.8 vs 17.07 MHz).

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 820

  • Dimensity 820 has 10.17% higher CPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (2600 vs 2360 MHz).
  • Dimensity 820 has 5.88% higher GPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (900 vs 850 MHz).
  • Dimensity 820 has 14.31% higher memory frequency than Kirin 970 (2133 vs 1866 MHz).
  • Dimensity 820 has 30% smaller sized transistor than Kirin 970 (7 vs 10 nm).
  • Dimensity 820 has 48.26% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 970 (436 K vs 294 K ).
  • Dimensity 820 has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 970.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Kirin 970 390
Dimensity 820 646

Multi-Core Score

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Kirin 970 1361
Dimensity 820 2599

Image compression

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Kirin 970 76.9
Dimensity 820 142.3

Face detection

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Kirin 970 14
Dimensity 820 22.4

Speech recognition

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Kirin 970 24.5
Dimensity 820 41.2

Machine learning

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Kirin 970 21.8
Dimensity 820 31.3

Camera shooting

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Kirin 970 11.4
Dimensity 820 21.3

HTML 5

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Kirin 970 1.46
Dimensity 820 2.94

SQLite

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Kirin 970 417.7
Dimensity 820 759

3DMark

Stability 80%

Graphics test 6 FPS
Stability 98%

Graphics test 13 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K @ 60 Hz Full HD+ @ 120Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR, HDR-10 HDR, HDR10+
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

62%
Turbo Clock Speed

2360 MHz

69%
Turbo Clock Speed

2600 MHz

84%
Base Frequency

1840 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A73
    4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53
    4x 2.6 GHz – Cortex-A76
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv8.3-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 MC5
  • Architecture Bifrost Valhall
  • GPU frequency 850 MHz 900 MHz
  • Execution units 12 5
  • Shading units 192 80
  • 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

Memory frequency

1866 MHz
memory-frequency

Memory frequency

2133 MHz
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

17.07 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max Size

8 GB
memory-frequency

Max Size

16 GB

  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 1x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Dedicated NPU MediaTek APU 3.0
  • 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 80MP, 2x 32MP
  • 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

4G Speed
  • 1200 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 150 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • 1200 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 211 Mbps
    Upload Speed
5G Speed
  • -
    Download Speed
  • -
    Upload Speed
  • 4700 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 2500 Mbps
    Upload Speed

  • 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

CPU
15%
GPU
12%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
64%

Mediatek Dimensity 820

CPU
27%
GPU
20%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%
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