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.
Review
CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
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
Performance tests in popular benchmarksAnTuTu 9
CPU | 77046 | 125662 |
GPU | 90560 | 125708 |
Memory | 66398 | 77949 |
UX | 59977 | 106547 |
Total score | 293981 | 435866 |
GeekBench 5
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
Image compression | 76.9 Mpixels/s | 142.3 Mpixels/s |
Face detection | 14 images/s | 22.4 images/s |
Speech recognition | 24.5 words/s | 41.2 words/s |
Machine learning | 21.8 images/s | 31.3 images/s |
Camera shooting | 11.4 images/s | 21.3 images/s |
HTML 5 | 1.46 Mnodes/s | 2.94 Mnodes/s |
SQLite | 417.7 Mnodes/s | 759 Mnodes/s |
3DMark
8%
Kirin 97017%
Dimensity 820Score: 2165
Stability | 80% | 98% |
Graphics test | 6 FPS | 13 FPS |
Score | 1050 | 2165 |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of Hisilicon Kirin 970 and Mediatek Dimensity 820Display
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 | - | - |
CPU
62%
Kirin 97069%
Dimensity 820
Processor Speed (Frequency)
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 |
Base Frequency | 1840 MHz | 2000 MHz |
Turbo Frequency | 2360 MHz | 2600 MHz |
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 |
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 |
Memory
Memory type | LPDDR4X | LPDDR4X |
Memory frequency | 1866 MHz | 2133 MHz |
Bus | 4x 16 Bit | 1x 16 Bit |
Max bandwidth | 29.8 Gbit/s | 17.07 Gbit/s |
Max size | 8 GB | 16 GB |
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 |
Connectivity
Download Speed
4G (MB/s)
5G (MB/s)
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
5G (MB/s)
Modem | - | - |
4G support | LTE Cat. 18 | LTE Cat. 18 |
5G support | No | Yes |
Peak Download speed | - | Up to 4700 Mbps |
Peak Upload speed | - | Up to 2500 Mbps |
Wi-Fi | 5 | 5 |
Bluetooth | 4.2 | 5.1 |
Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS |
Info
Announced Date | September 2017 | May 2020 |
Class | Flagship | Mid range |
Model number | Hi3670 | MT6875 |
Official page | Kirin 970 official site | Dimensity 820 official site |