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Hisilicon Kirin 970
Overview - Kirin 970 Vs Snapdragon 720G

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Kirin 970 vs Snapdragon 720G 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 720G 21
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Kirin 970 12
Snapdragon 720G 14
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Kirin 970 64
Snapdragon 720G 71
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Kirin 970 30
Snapdragon 720G 35
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Kirin 970 Snapdragon 720G
CPU 77046 98820
GPU 90560 71078
Memory 66398 47158
UX 59977 52126
Total score 293981 269182
Key Differences

Pros of Hisilicon Kirin 970

  • Kirin 970 has 2.61% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 720G (2360 vs 2300 MHz).
  • Kirin 970 has 13.33% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 720G (850 vs 750 MHz).
  • Kirin 970 has 9.21% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 720G (294 K vs 269 K).
  • Kirin 970 Support 114.23% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 720G (29.8 vs 13.91 MHz).
  • Kirin 970 Support 50.00% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 720G (1200 vs 800 MHz).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G

  • Snapdragon 720G has 20% smaller sized transistor than Kirin 970 (8 vs 10 nm).
  • Snapdragon 720G has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 970.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Kirin 970 390
Snapdragon 720G 569

Multi-Core Score

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Kirin 970 1361
Snapdragon 720G 1780

Image compression

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Kirin 970 76.9
Snapdragon 720G 110.2

Face detection

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Kirin 970 14
Snapdragon 720G 13.1

Speech recognition

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Kirin 970 24.5
Snapdragon 720G 27.3

Machine learning

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Kirin 970 21.8
Snapdragon 720G 26.1

Camera shooting

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Kirin 970 11.4
Snapdragon 720G 15.7

HTML 5

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Kirin 970 1.46
Snapdragon 720G 2.16

SQLite

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Kirin 970 417.7
Snapdragon 720G 533.6

3DMark

Stability 80%

Graphics test 6 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 6 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K @ 60 Hz FHD+ @ 120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - QHD @ 60 Hz
  • HDR HDR, HDR-10 Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG), HDR10
  • Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec. 2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

62%
Turbo Clock Speed

2360 MHz

61%
Turbo Clock Speed

2300 MHz

84%
Base Frequency

1840 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

  • Architecture 4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A73
    4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53
    2x 2.3 GHz – Kryo 465 Gold (Cortex-A76)
    6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 465 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv8.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache 0.5 MB -
  • L3 cache 2 MB 1 MB
  • Process 10 nm 8 nm
  • Transistor count 5.5 Billion -
  • TDP 9 W 5 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali G72 MP12 Adreno 618
  • Architecture Bifrost Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 850 MHz 750 MHz
  • Execution units 12 2
  • Shading units 192 128
  • FLOPS 347 Gigaflops 435 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.0 1.1
  • OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
  • DirectX version 12 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 1866 MHz 1866 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 29.8 Gbit/s 13.91 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 2x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Dedicated NPU Qualcomm Hexagon 692 DSP
  • Storage type UFS 2.1 UFS 2.1
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP, 2x 20MP 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 4K at 30FPS, 1K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS, 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 384 kHz/32 bit
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - X15
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 15
  • 5G support No No
  • Wi-Fi 5 6
  • Bluetooth 4.2 5.1
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Hisilicon Kirin 970

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

Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G

CPU
21%
GPU
14%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
71%
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