Kirin 970 Vs Snapdragon 480 Plus

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Kirin 970 vs Snapdragon 480 Plus SoCs by Hisilicon and Qualcomm 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.

• Kirin 970 has 7.27% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 480 Plus (2360 vs 2200 MHz).

• Kirin 970 has 3.03% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 480 Plus (850 vs 825 MHz).

• Kirin 970 has latest instruction set, hence better than Snapdragon 480 Plus.

• Kirin 970 Support 75.29% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 480 Plus (29.8 vs 17 MHz).

• Kirin 970 Support 50.00% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 480 Plus (1200 vs 800 MHz).

• Snapdragon 480 Plus has 14.31% higher memory frequency than Kirin 970 (2133 vs 1866 MHz).

• Snapdragon 480 Plus has 20% smaller sized transistor than Kirin 970 (8 vs 10 nm).

• Snapdragon 480 Plus has 17.45% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 970 (345 K vs 294 K ).

Modem	-	Snapdragon X51
4G support	LTE Cat. 18	LTE Cat. 18
5G support	No	Yes
Peak Download speed	-	Up to 2500 Mbps
Peak Upload speed	-	Up to 1500 Mbps
Wi-Fi	5	5
Bluetooth	4.2	5.2
Navigation	GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo	GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC