78

Points
Hisilicon Kirin 970

78

Points
MediaTek Helio G37
Overview - Kirin 970 Vs Helio G37

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Kirin 970 vs Helio G37 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
Helio G37 14
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Kirin 970 12
Helio G37 8
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Kirin 970 64
Helio G37 57
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Kirin 970 30
Helio G37 26
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Kirin 970 Helio G37
CPU 77046 37521
GPU 90560 27112
Memory 66398 33579
UX 59977 40621
Total score 293981 138833
Key Differences

Pros of Hisilicon Kirin 970

  • Kirin 970 has 2.61% higher CPU clock speed than Helio G37 (2360 vs 2300 MHz).
  • Kirin 970 has 25.00% higher GPU clock speed than Helio G37 (850 vs 680 MHz).
  • Kirin 970 has 16.63% higher memory frequency than Helio G37 (1866 vs 1600 MHz).
  • Kirin 970 has 16.67% smaller sized transistor than Helio G37 (10 vs 12 nm).
  • Kirin 970 has 111.75% better AnTuTu 9 score than Helio G37 (294 K vs 139 K).
  • Kirin 970 Support 114.39% higher memory bandwidth than Helio G37 (29.8 vs 13.9 MHz).
  • Kirin 970 Support 300.00% higher memory bandwidth than Helio G37 (1200 vs 300 MHz).

Pros of MediaTek Helio G37

  • Helio G37 has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 970.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Kirin 970 390
Helio G37 914

Multi-Core Score

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Kirin 970 1361
Helio G37 178

Image compression

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Kirin 970 76.9
Helio G37

Face detection

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Kirin 970 14
Helio G37

Speech recognition

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Kirin 970 24.5
Helio G37

Machine learning

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Kirin 970 21.8
Helio G37

Camera shooting

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Kirin 970 11.4
Helio G37

HTML 5

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Kirin 970 1.46
Helio G37

SQLite

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Kirin 970 417.7
Helio G37

3DMark

Stability 80%

Graphics test 6 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K @ 60 Hz Full HD+ @90 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 2400 x 1080
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR, HDR-10 -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

62%
Turbo Clock Speed

2360 MHz

61%
Turbo Clock Speed

2300 MHz

84%
Base Frequency

1840 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A73
    4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53
    4x 2.3 GHz – Cortex-A53
    4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A53
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache 0.5 MB -
  • L3 cache 2 MB -
  • Process 10 nm 12 nm
  • Transistor count 5.5 Billion -
  • TDP 9 W 2.2 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali G72 MP12 IMG PowerVR GE8320
  • Architecture Bifrost Rogue
  • GPU frequency 850 MHz 680 MHz
  • Execution units 12 2
  • Shading units 192 64
  • FLOPS 347 Gigaflops 56 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.0 1.1
  • OpenCL version 2.0 1.2
  • DirectX version 12 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 1866 MHz 1600 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 29.8 Gbit/s 13.9 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Dedicated NPU No
  • Storage type UFS 2.1 eMMC 5.1
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2400 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP, 2x 20MP 1x 50MP, 2x 13MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 1K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 1080p at 30FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, VC-1 H.264, H.265
  • Audio codecs 32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 7
  • 5G support No No
  • Wi-Fi 5 5
  • Bluetooth 4.2 5.0
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS
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 Helio G37

CPU
14%
GPU
8%
Memory
19%
Energy efficiency and battery life
57%
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