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Hisilicon Kirin 970
Overview - Kirin 970 Vs Dimensity 9000

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Kirin 970 vs Dimensity 9000 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 9000 49
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Kirin 970 12
Dimensity 9000 46
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Kirin 970 64
Dimensity 9000 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Kirin 970 30
Dimensity 9000 60
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Kirin 970 Dimensity 9000
CPU 77046 254411
GPU 90560 384881
Memory 66398 180981
UX 59977 185288
Total score 293981 1005561
Key Differences

Pros of MediaTek Dimensity 9000

  • Dimensity 9000 has 29.24% higher CPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (3050 vs 2360 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9000 has 100.96% higher memory frequency than Kirin 970 (3750 vs 1866 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9000 has 60% smaller sized transistor than Kirin 970 (4 vs 10 nm).
  • Dimensity 9000 has 242.05% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 970 (1,006 K vs 294 K ).
  • Dimensity 9000 has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 970.
  • Dimensity 9000 Support 101.34% higher memory bandwidth than Kirin 970 (60 vs 29.8 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Kirin 970 390
Dimensity 9000 1275

Multi-Core Score

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Kirin 970 1361
Dimensity 9000 4132

Image compression

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Kirin 970 76.9
Dimensity 9000

Face detection

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Kirin 970 14
Dimensity 9000

Speech recognition

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Kirin 970 24.5
Dimensity 9000

Machine learning

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Kirin 970 21.8
Dimensity 9000

Camera shooting

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Kirin 970 11.4
Dimensity 9000

HTML 5

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Kirin 970 1.46
Dimensity 9000

SQLite

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Kirin 970 417.7
Dimensity 9000

3DMark

Stability 80%

Graphics test 6 FPS
Stability 90%

Graphics test 47 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K @ 60 Hz WQHD+ @144Hz / Full HD+ @180Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 3200 x 1440
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR, HDR-10 HDR10+
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

62%
Turbo Clock Speed

2360 MHz

81%
Turbo Clock Speed

3050 MHz

84%
Base Frequency

1840 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A73
    4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53
    1x 3.05 GHz – Cortex-X2
    3x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-A710
    4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv9-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache 0.5 MB 1 MB
  • L3 cache 2 MB 8 MB
  • Process 10 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count 5.5 Billion -
  • TDP 9 W 4 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali G72 MP12 Mali-G710 MP10
  • Architecture Bifrost Valhall 3
  • GPU frequency 850 MHz 850 MHz
  • Execution units 12 10
  • Shading units 192 512
  • FLOPS 347 Gigaflops 1648 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 3750 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 29.8 Gbit/s 60 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 590
  • Storage type UFS 2.1 UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 3200 x 1440
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP, 2x 20MP 1x 320MP, 3x 32MP
  • 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 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support No Yes
  • Wi-Fi 5 6
  • Bluetooth 4.2 5.3
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, 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 9000

CPU
49%
GPU
46%
Memory
44%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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