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Hisilicon Kirin 970
Overview - Kirin 970 Vs Dimensity 9400

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Kirin 970 vs Dimensity 9400 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 13
Dimensity 9400 91
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Kirin 970 10
Dimensity 9400 94
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Kirin 970 64
Dimensity 9400 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Kirin 970 29
Dimensity 9400 91
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Kirin 970 Dimensity 9400
CPU 77046 600293
GPU 90560 1194784
Memory 66398 408283
UX 59977 443652
Total score 293981 2647012
Key Differences

Pros of MediaTek Dimensity 9400

  • Dimensity 9400 has 53.81% higher CPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (3630 vs 2360 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9400 has 89.65% higher GPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (1612 vs 850 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9400 has 185.80% higher memory frequency than Kirin 970 (5333 vs 1866 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9400 has 70% smaller sized transistor than Kirin 970 (3 vs 10 nm).
  • Dimensity 9400 has 800.40% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 970 (2,647 K vs 294 K ).
  • Dimensity 9400 has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 970.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Kirin 970 390
Dimensity 9400 2876

Multi-Core Score

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Kirin 970 1361
Dimensity 9400 8972

Image compression

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Kirin 970 76.9
Dimensity 9400

Face detection

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Kirin 970 14
Dimensity 9400

Speech recognition

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Kirin 970 24.5
Dimensity 9400

Machine learning

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Kirin 970 21.8
Dimensity 9400

Camera shooting

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Kirin 970 11.4
Dimensity 9400

HTML 5

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Kirin 970 1.46
Dimensity 9400

SQLite

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Kirin 970 417.7
Dimensity 9400

3DMark

Stability 80%

Graphics test 6 FPS
Stability 18674%

Graphics test 56 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

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

CPU

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2360 MHz

90%
Turbo Clock Speed

3630 MHz

45%
Base Frequency

1840 MHz

59%
Base Frequency

2400 MHz

  • Architecture 4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A73
    4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53
    1x 3.63 GHz – Cortex-X925
    3x 3.3 GHz – Cortex-X4
    4x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A720
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv9.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache 0.5 MB 12 MB
  • L3 cache 2 MB -
  • Process 10 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count 5.5 Billion -
  • TDP 9 W 8.2 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali G72 MP12 Mali-G925 Immortalis MP12
  • Architecture Bifrost Valhall 5th gen
  • GPU frequency 850 MHz 1612 MHz
  • Execution units 12 -
  • Shading units 192 192
  • FLOPS 347 Gigaflops 7428 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.0 1.3
  • OpenCL version 2.0 3.2
  • DirectX version 12 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 1866 MHz 5333 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 29.8 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 NPU 890
  • Storage type UFS 2.1 UFS 4.0
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP, 2x 20MP 1x 320MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • 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
  • 5G Download Speed - -
  • 4G Download Speed 1200 Mbps -
  • 5G Upload Speed - -
  • 4G Upload Speed 150 Mbps -
  • 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
13%
GPU
10%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
64%

MediaTek Dimensity 9400

CPU
91%
GPU
94%
Memory
62%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%
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