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Home > Smartphone processors comparison > Kirin 970 vs Snapdragon 480 Plus – specs and benchmarks

Kirin 970 Vs Snapdragon 480 Plus

Kirin 970
VS
Snapdragon 480 Plus
Kirin 970
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.
  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
Snapdragon 480 Plus
20
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Kirin 970
12
Snapdragon 480 Plus
15
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Kirin 970
64
Snapdragon 480 Plus
71
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Kirin 970
30
Snapdragon 480 Plus
35

Key Differences

Pros of Hisilicon Kirin 970
  • 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).
Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus
  • 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 ).

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks
SoC:
Kirin 970
vs
Snapdragon 480 Plus

AnTuTu 9

Kirin 970
293981
Snapdragon 480 Plus +14%
345289
CPU 77046 103367
GPU 90560 83956
Memory 66398 61234
UX 59977 96732
Total score 293981 345289

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score
Kirin 970
390
Snapdragon 480 Plus +29%
505
Multi-Core Score
Kirin 970
1361
Snapdragon 480 Plus +20%
1637
Image compression 76.9 Mpixels/s -
Face detection 14 images/s -
Speech recognition 24.5 words/s -
Machine learning 21.8 images/s -
Camera shooting 11.4 images/s -
HTML 5 1.46 Mnodes/s -
SQLite 417.7 Mnodes/s -

3DMark

8%
Kirin 970
8%
SD 480 Plus
Score: 1050

Stability 80% -
Graphics test 6 FPS 5 FPS
Score 1050 980

Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Hisilicon Kirin 970 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus

Display

Max On-Device Display 4K @ 60 Hz FHD+ @ 120 Hz, HD+ @ 120 Hz
Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 900 × 1600, 1080 × 2520
Max External Display - -
HDR HDR, HDR-10 -
Color Depth - -
Color Gamut - -

  CPU

62%
Kirin 970
58%
SD 480 Plus
Processor Speed (Frequency)

Architecture 4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A73
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53
2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold (Cortex-A76)
6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver (Cortex-A55)
Cores 8 8
Base Frequency 1840 MHz 1800 MHz
Turbo Frequency 2360 MHz 2200 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8-A -
L1 cache - -
L2 cache 0.5 MB -
L3 cache 2 MB -
Process 10 nm 8 nm
Transistor count 5.5 Billion -
TDP 9 W 3 W

Graphics

GPU name Mali G72 MP12 Adreno 619
Architecture Bifrost Adreno 600
GPU frequency 850 MHz 825 MHz
Execution units 12 2
Shading units 192 128
FLOPS 347 Gigaflops -
Vulkan version 1.0 1.1
OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
DirectX version 12 12

Memory

Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
Memory frequency 1866 MHz 2133 MHz
Bus 4x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 29.8 Gbit/s 17 Gbit/s
Max size 8 GB 8 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU) Dedicated NPU Hexagon 686
Storage type UFS 2.1 eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2
Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
Max camera resolution 1x 48MP, 2x 20MP 1x 64MP, 2x 25MP
Video capture 4K at 30FPS 1K at 60FPS
Video playback 4K at 60FPS 1080p at 60FPS
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

Connectivity

Download Speed
4G (MB/s)
Kirin 970
1200
Snapdragon 480 Plus
800
5G (MB/s)
Kirin 970
N/A
Snapdragon 480 Plus
2500
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
Kirin 970
150
Snapdragon 480 Plus
210
5G (MB/s)
Kirin 970
N/A
Snapdragon 480 Plus
1500
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

Info

Announced Date September 2017 October 2021
Class Flagship Low end
Model number Hi3670 SM4350-AC
Official page Kirin 970 official site Snapdragon 480 Plus 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
Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus
Qualcomm Snapdragon 480 Plus
CPU
20%
GPU
15%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
71%

26.5


Review By TenzysTech

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