Kirin 970 Vs Snapdragon 685
We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Kirin 970 vs Snapdragon 685 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.
Review
CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Key Differences
Pros of Hisilicon Kirin 970
- Kirin 970 has 8.79% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 685 (294 K vs 270 K).
- Kirin 970 Support 75.29% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 685 (29.8 vs 17 MHz).
- Kirin 970 Support 207.69% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 685 (1200 vs 390 MHz).
Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 685
- Snapdragon 685 has 18.64% higher CPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (2800 vs 2360 MHz).
- Snapdragon 685 has 14.31% higher memory frequency than Kirin 970 (2133 vs 1866 MHz).
- Snapdragon 685 has 40% smaller sized transistor than Kirin 970 (6 vs 10 nm).
- Snapdragon 685 has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 970.
Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarksAnTuTu 9
| CPU | 77046 | 81894 |
| GPU | 90560 | 39122 |
| Memory | 66398 | 77991 |
| UX | 59977 | 71216 |
| Total score | 293981 | 270223 |
GeekBench 5
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
| 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 9700%
SD 685Score: 1050
| Stability | 80% | - |
| Graphics test | 6 FPS | - |
| Score | 1050 | - |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of Hisilicon Kirin 970 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 685Display
| Max On-Device Display | 4K @ 60 Hz | HD+ @ 120 Hz, FHD+ @ 120 Hz |
| Max On-Display Resolution | 3840 x 2160 | 1080 × 2520 |
| Max External Display | - | - |
| HDR | HDR, HDR-10 | - |
| Color Depth | - | Up to 12-bit, Up to 10-bit |
| Color Gamut | - | - |
CPU
62%
Kirin 97074%
SD 685
Processor Speed (Frequency)
| Architecture |
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A73 4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53 |
4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A73 4x 1.9 GHz – Cortex-A53 |
| Cores | 8 | 8 |
| Base Frequency | 1840 MHz | 1900 MHz |
| Turbo Frequency | 2360 MHz | 2800 MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8-A | ARMv8.2-A |
| L1 cache | - | - |
| L2 cache | 0.5 MB | - |
| L3 cache | 2 MB | - |
| Process | 10 nm | 6 nm |
| Transistor count | 5.5 Billion | - |
| TDP | 9 W | - |
Graphics
| GPU name | Mali G72 MP12 | Adreno 610 |
| Architecture | Bifrost | Adreno 600 |
| GPU frequency | 850 MHz | - |
| Execution units | 12 | 2 |
| Shading units | 192 | 96 |
| 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 | UFS 2.2 |
| Max display resolution | 3840 x 2160 | 2520 x 1080 |
| Max camera resolution | 1x 48MP, 2x 20MP | 1x 108MP, 2x 16MP |
| 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, VP8, VP9 |
| Audio codecs | 32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio | AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV |
Connectivity
Download Speed
4G (MB/s)
5G (MB/s)
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
5G (MB/s)
| Modem | - | X11 |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 18 | LTE Cat. 13 |
| 5G support | No | No |
| Peak Download speed | - | - |
| Peak Upload speed | - | - |
| 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 | March 2023 |
| Class | Flagship | Mid range |
| Model number | Hi3670 | SM6225-AD |
| Official page | Kirin 970 official site | Snapdragon 685 official site |
Hisilicon Kirin 970
28.25
Review By TenzysTech
Qualcomm Snapdragon 685
26.75
Review By TenzysTech
