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Home > Smartphone processors comparison > Kirin 970 vs Helio G95 – specs and benchmarks

Kirin 970 Vs Helio G95

Kirin 970
VS
Helio G95
Kirin 970
Helio G95
We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Kirin 970 vs Helio G95 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.
  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Benchmarks
  4. AnTuTu v9
  5. GeekBench 5
  6. Specs

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Kirin 970
15
Helio G95
19
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Kirin 970
12
Helio G95
14
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Kirin 970
64
Helio G95
57
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Kirin 970
30
Helio G95
30

Key Differences

Pros of Hisilicon Kirin 970
  • Kirin 970 has 15.12% higher CPU clock speed than Helio G95 (2360 vs 2050 MHz).
  • Kirin 970 has 16.67% smaller sized transistor than Helio G95 (10 vs 12 nm).
  • Kirin 970 Support 100.00% higher memory bandwidth than Helio G95 (1200 vs 600 MHz).
Pros of Mediatek Helio G95
  • Helio G95 has 5.88% higher GPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (900 vs 850 MHz).
  • Helio G95 has 14.31% higher memory frequency than Kirin 970 (2133 vs 1866 MHz).
  • Helio G95 has 2.30% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 970 (301 K vs 294 K ).
  • Helio G95 has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 970.

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks
SoC:
Kirin 970
vs
Helio G95

AnTuTu 9

Kirin 970
293981
Helio G95
300734
CPU 77046 91718
GPU 90560 91234
Memory 66398 58340
UX 59977 59442
Total score 293981 300734

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score
Kirin 970
390
Helio G95 +36%
529
Multi-Core Score
Kirin 970
1361
Helio G95 +23%
1680
Image compression 76.9 Mpixels/s 96.2 Mpixels/s
Face detection 14 images/s 14.6 images/s
Speech recognition 24.5 words/s 31.1 words/s
Machine learning 21.8 images/s 26.4 images/s
Camera shooting 11.4 images/s 13.8 images/s
HTML 5 1.46 Mnodes/s 1.97 Mnodes/s
SQLite 417.7 Mnodes/s 444.9 Mnodes/s

3DMark

8%
Kirin 970
11%
Helio G95
Score: 1464

Stability 80% 98%
Graphics test 6 FPS 8 FPS
Score 1050 1464

Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Hisilicon Kirin 970 and Mediatek Helio G95

Display

Max On-Device Display 4K @ 60 Hz Full HD+ @ 90Hz
Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
Max External Display - -
HDR HDR, HDR-10 HDR10+
Color Depth - -
Color Gamut - -

  CPU

62%
Kirin 970
54%
Helio G95
Processor Speed (Frequency)

Architecture 4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A73
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53
2x 2.05 GHz – Cortex-A76
6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
Cores 8 8
Base Frequency 1840 MHz 2000 MHz
Turbo Frequency 2360 MHz 2050 MHz
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

Graphics

GPU name Mali G72 MP12 Mali-G76 3EEMC4
Architecture Bifrost Bifrost
GPU frequency 850 MHz 900 MHz
Execution units 12 4
Shading units 192 64
FLOPS 347 Gigaflops 195.8 Gigaflops
Vulkan version 1.0 1.1
OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
DirectX version 12 12

Memory

Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDRLPDDR4X
Memory frequency 1866 MHz 2133 MHz
Bus 4x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 29.8 Gbit/s -
Max size 8 GB 10 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU) Dedicated NPU Da Vinci
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 64MP, 2x 24MP
Video capture 4K at 30FPS 4K at 30FPS
Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K 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 AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV

Connectivity

Download Speed
4G (MB/s)
Kirin 970
1200
Helio G95
600
5G (MB/s)
Kirin 970
N/A
Helio G95
N/A
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
Kirin 970
150
Helio G95
150
5G (MB/s)
Kirin 970
N/A
Helio G95
N/A
Modem - -
4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 12
5G support No No
Peak Download speed - -
Peak Upload speed - -
Wi-Fi 5 5
Bluetooth 4.2 5.0
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Announced Date September 2017 September 2020
Class Flagship Mid range
Model number Hi3670 MT6785V/CD
Official page Kirin 970 official site Helio G95 official site
Hisilicon Kirin 970
Hisilicon Kirin 970
CPU
15%
GPU
12%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
64%

28.25


Review By TenzysTech
Mediatek Helio G95
Mediatek Helio G95
CPU
19%
GPU
14%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
57%

22.5


Review By TenzysTech

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