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Hisilicon Kirin 970
Overview - Kirin 970 Vs Dimensity 8300

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Kirin 970 vs Dimensity 8300 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 8300 57
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Kirin 970 12
Dimensity 8300 58
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Kirin 970 64
Dimensity 8300 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Kirin 970 30
Dimensity 8300 67
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Kirin 970 Dimensity 8300
CPU 77046 282796
GPU 90560 542690
Memory 66398 328720
UX 59977 249840
Total score 293981 1404046
Key Differences

Pros of MediaTek Dimensity 8300

  • Dimensity 8300 has 41.95% higher CPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (3350 vs 2360 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8300 has 64.71% higher GPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (1400 vs 850 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8300 has 128.62% higher memory frequency than Kirin 970 (4266 vs 1866 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8300 has 60% smaller sized transistor than Kirin 970 (4 vs 10 nm).
  • Dimensity 8300 has 377.60% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 970 (1,404 K vs 294 K ).
  • Dimensity 8300 has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 970.
  • Dimensity 8300 Support 128.86% higher memory bandwidth than Kirin 970 (68.2 vs 29.8 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Kirin 970 390
Dimensity 8300 1512

Multi-Core Score

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Kirin 970 1361
Dimensity 8300 4886

Image compression

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Kirin 970 76.9
Dimensity 8300

Face detection

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Kirin 970 14
Dimensity 8300

Speech recognition

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Kirin 970 24.5
Dimensity 8300

Machine learning

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Kirin 970 21.8
Dimensity 8300

Camera shooting

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Kirin 970 11.4
Dimensity 8300

HTML 5

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Kirin 970 1.46
Dimensity 8300

SQLite

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Kirin 970 417.7
Dimensity 8300

3DMark

Stability 80%

Graphics test 6 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K @ 60 Hz WQHD+ @ 120Hz, FHD+ @ 180Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 2960 x 1440
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR, HDR-10 -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

62%
Turbo Clock Speed

2360 MHz

89%
Turbo Clock Speed

3350 MHz

84%
Base Frequency

1840 MHz

100%
Base Frequency

2200 MHz

  • Architecture 4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A73
    4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53
    1x 3.35 GHz – Cortex-A715
    3x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-A715
    4x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A510
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv9-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache 0.5 MB -
  • L3 cache 2 MB 4 MB
  • Process 10 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count 5.5 Billion -
  • TDP 9 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali G72 MP12 Mali-G615 MP6
  • Architecture Bifrost Valhall 4rd gen
  • GPU frequency 850 MHz 1400 MHz
  • Execution units 12 6
  • 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 4266 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 29.8 Gbit/s 68.2 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 24 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Dedicated NPU MediaTek APU 780
  • Storage type UFS 2.1 UFS 4.0
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2960 x 1440
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP, 2x 20MP 1x 320MP
  • 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
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 -
  • 5G support No Yes
  • Wi-Fi 5 6
  • Bluetooth 4.2 5.4
  • 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 8300

CPU
57%
GPU
58%
Memory
50%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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