78

Points
Hisilicon Kirin 970

78

Points
MediaTek Helio G85
Overview - Kirin 970 Vs Helio G85

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Kirin 970 vs Helio G85 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 G85 14
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Kirin 970 12
Helio G85 10
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Kirin 970 64
Helio G85 57
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Kirin 970 30
Helio G85 27
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Kirin 970 Helio G85
CPU 77046 67123
GPU 90560 61260
Memory 66398 42828
UX 59977 77565
Total score 293981 248776
Key Differences

Pros of Hisilicon Kirin 970

  • Kirin 970 has 18.00% higher CPU clock speed than Helio G85 (2360 vs 2000 MHz).
  • Kirin 970 has 3.67% higher memory frequency than Helio G85 (1866 vs 1800 MHz).
  • Kirin 970 has 16.67% smaller sized transistor than Helio G85 (10 vs 12 nm).
  • Kirin 970 has 18.17% better AnTuTu 9 score than Helio G85 (294 K vs 249 K).
  • Kirin 970 Support 122.22% higher memory bandwidth than Helio G85 (29.8 vs 13.41 MHz).
  • Kirin 970 Support 300.00% higher memory bandwidth than Helio G85 (1200 vs 300 MHz).

Pros of MediaTek Helio G85

  • Helio G85 has 17.65% higher GPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (1000 vs 850 MHz).
  • Helio G85 has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 970.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Kirin 970 390
Helio G85 361

Multi-Core Score

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Kirin 970 1361
Helio G85 1279

Image compression

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Kirin 970 76.9
Helio G85 81.2

Face detection

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Kirin 970 14
Helio G85 11.9

Speech recognition

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Kirin 970 24.5
Helio G85 24.2

Machine learning

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Kirin 970 21.8
Helio G85 18.1

Camera shooting

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Kirin 970 11.4
Helio G85 9.26

HTML 5

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Kirin 970 1.46
Helio G85 1.55

SQLite

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Kirin 970 417.7
Helio G85 413.5

3DMark

Stability 80%

Graphics test 6 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test 4 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K @ 60 Hz -
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 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

53%
Turbo Clock Speed

2000 MHz

84%
Base Frequency

1840 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A73
    4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53
    2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A75
    6x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • 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 5 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali G72 MP12 Mali-G52 MP2
  • Architecture Bifrost Bifrost 2
  • GPU frequency 850 MHz 1000 MHz
  • Execution units 12 2
  • Shading units 192 32
  • FLOPS 347 Gigaflops 59 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.0 1.0
  • OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
  • DirectX version 12 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 1866 MHz 1800 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 29.8 Gbit/s 13.41 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 Neural Engine
  • Storage type UFS 2.1 eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP, 2x 20MP 1x 48MP, 2x 16MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 2K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 2K at 30FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, VC-1 H.264, H.265, VP9
  • 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
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 G85

CPU
14%
GPU
10%
Memory
21%
Energy efficiency and battery life
57%
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