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Hisilicon Kirin 970
Overview - Kirin 970 Vs Dimensity 9300

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Kirin 970 vs Dimensity 9300 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 9300 92
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Kirin 970 12
Dimensity 9300 95
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Kirin 970 64
Dimensity 9300 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Kirin 970 30
Dimensity 9300 91
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Kirin 970 Dimensity 9300
CPU 77046 485064
GPU 90560 899463
Memory 66398 357691
UX 59977 312866
Total score 293981 2055084
Key Differences

Pros of MediaTek Dimensity 9300

  • Dimensity 9300 has 37.71% higher CPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (3250 vs 2360 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9300 has 52.94% higher GPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (1300 vs 850 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9300 has 157.23% higher memory frequency than Kirin 970 (4800 vs 1866 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9300 has 60% smaller sized transistor than Kirin 970 (4 vs 10 nm).
  • Dimensity 9300 has 599.05% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 970 (2,055 K vs 294 K ).
  • Dimensity 9300 has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 970.
  • Dimensity 9300 Support 157.72% higher memory bandwidth than Kirin 970 (76.8 vs 29.8 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Kirin 970 390
Dimensity 9300 2265

Multi-Core Score

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Kirin 970 1361
Dimensity 9300 7995

Image compression

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Kirin 970 76.9
Dimensity 9300

Face detection

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Kirin 970 14
Dimensity 9300

Speech recognition

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Kirin 970 24.5
Dimensity 9300

Machine learning

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Kirin 970 21.8
Dimensity 9300

Camera shooting

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Kirin 970 11.4
Dimensity 9300

HTML 5

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Kirin 970 1.46
Dimensity 9300

SQLite

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Kirin 970 417.7
Dimensity 9300

3DMark

Stability 80%

Graphics test 6 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test 116 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

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

CPU

62%
Turbo Clock Speed

2360 MHz

86%
Turbo Clock Speed

3250 MHz

84%
Base Frequency

1840 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A73
    4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53
    1x 3.25 GHz – Cortex-X4
    3x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-X4
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex-A720
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv9.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache 0.5 MB -
  • L3 cache 2 MB 18 MB
  • Process 10 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count 5.5 Billion 22.7 Billion
  • TDP 9 W -
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali G72 MP12 Mali-G720 Immortalis MP12
  • Architecture Bifrost Valhall 5th gen
  • GPU frequency 850 MHz 1300 MHz
  • Execution units 12 12
  • Shading units 192 192
  • FLOPS 347 Gigaflops 5990.4 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 4800 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 29.8 Gbit/s 76.8 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 24 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDRLPDDR5T
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Dedicated NPU MediaTek APU 790
  • 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 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 8K at 30FPS, 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 7
  • 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 9300

CPU
92%
GPU
95%
Memory
56%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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