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Hisilicon Kirin 970

Kirin 970

78

Points
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

Snapdragon 7 Gen 3
Overview - Kirin 970 Vs Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Kirin 970 vs Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 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.

Features

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Kirin 970 15
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 44
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Kirin 970 12
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 37
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Kirin 970 64
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Kirin 970 30
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 56
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Kirin 970 Snapdragon 7 Gen 3
CPU 77046 256787
GPU 90560 272332
Memory 66398 177778
UX 59977 159966
Total score 293981 866863
Key Differences

Pros of Hisilicon Kirin 970

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

  • Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 has 11.44% higher CPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (2630 vs 2360 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 has 71.49% higher memory frequency than Kirin 970 (3200 vs 1866 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 has 60% smaller sized transistor than Kirin 970 (4 vs 10 nm).
  • Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 has 194.87% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 970 (867 K vs 294 K ).
  • Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 970.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Kirin 970 390
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 1128

Multi-Core Score

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Kirin 970 1361
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 3375

Image compression

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Kirin 970 76.9
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

Face detection

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Kirin 970 14
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

Speech recognition

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Kirin 970 24.5
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

Machine learning

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Kirin 970 21.8
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

Camera shooting

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Kirin 970 11.4
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

HTML 5

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Kirin 970 1.46
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

SQLite

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Kirin 970 417.7
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

3DMark

5%
Kirin 970
Stability 80%

Graphics test 6 FPS
N/A
Snapdragon 7 Gen 3
Stability %

Graphics test -
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K @ 60 Hz WFHD+@168 Hz, WQHD+@120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 -
  • Max External Display - 4K @ 60 Hz
  • HDR HDR, HDR-10 HDR10, HDR10+, Adaptive HDR10, Ultra HDR
  • Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec. 2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

62%
Turbo Clock Speed

2360 MHz

70%
Turbo Clock Speed

2630 MHz

84%
Base Frequency

1840 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A73
    4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53
     1x 2.63 GHz – Cortex-A715
    3x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A715
    4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv8.6-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache 0.5 MB -
  • L3 cache 2 MB -
  • Process 10 nm 4 nm
  • Transistor count 5.5 Billion -
  • TDP 9 W 6 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali G72 MP12 Adreno 720
  • Architecture Bifrost Adreno 700
  • GPU frequency 850 MHz -
  • Execution units 12 -
  • Shading units 192 -
  • FLOPS 347 Gigaflops -
  • Vulkan version 1.0 1.3
  • OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
  • DirectX version 12 -
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 1866 MHz 3200 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 29.8 Gbit/s 25.6 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 16 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Dedicated NPU Yes
  • Storage type UFS 2.1 UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 3360 x 1600
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP, 2x 20MP 1x 200MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS, 1K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS, 1080p at 120FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, VC-1 H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
  • Audio codecs 32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - Snapdragon X63
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support No Yes
  • Wi-Fi 5 6
  • Bluetooth 4.2 5.3
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Hisilicon Kirin 970

Hisilicon Kirin 970
CPU
15%
GPU
12%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
64%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3
CPU
44%
GPU
37%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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