Overview - Kirin 970 Vs Snapdragon 778G Plus

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Kirin 970 vs Snapdragon 778G 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.

Features

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Kirin 970 15
Snapdragon 778G Plus 33
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Kirin 970 12
Snapdragon 778G Plus 26
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Kirin 970 64
Snapdragon 778G Plus 79
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Kirin 970 30
Snapdragon 778G Plus 46
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Kirin 970 Snapdragon 778G Plus
CPU 77046 166382
GPU 90560 177972
Memory 66398 106394
UX 59977 130486
Total score 293981 581234
Key Differences

Pros of Hisilicon Kirin 970

  • Kirin 970 has 54.55% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 778G Plus (850 vs 550 MHz).
  • Kirin 970 Support 16.41% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 778G Plus (29.8 vs 25.6 MHz).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G Plus

  • Snapdragon 778G Plus has 5.93% higher CPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (2500 vs 2360 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 778G Plus has 71.49% higher memory frequency than Kirin 970 (3200 vs 1866 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 778G Plus has 40% smaller sized transistor than Kirin 970 (6 vs 10 nm).
  • Snapdragon 778G Plus has 97.71% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 970 (581 K vs 294 K ).
  • Snapdragon 778G Plus has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 970.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Kirin 970 390
Snapdragon 778G Plus 816

Multi-Core Score

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Kirin 970 1361
Snapdragon 778G Plus 2971

Image compression

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Kirin 970 76.9
Snapdragon 778G Plus

Face detection

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Kirin 970 14
Snapdragon 778G Plus

Speech recognition

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Kirin 970 24.5
Snapdragon 778G Plus

Machine learning

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Kirin 970 21.8
Snapdragon 778G Plus

Camera shooting

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Kirin 970 11.4
Snapdragon 778G Plus

HTML 5

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Kirin 970 1.46
Snapdragon 778G Plus

SQLite

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Kirin 970 417.7
Snapdragon 778G Plus

3DMark

Stability 80%

Graphics test 6 FPS
Stability %

Graphics test 16 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K @ 60 Hz FHD+ @ 144 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - 4K @ 60 Hz
  • HDR HDR, HDR-10 HDR10+, HDR10
  • Color Depth - Up to 10-bit
  • Color Gamut - Rec. 2020
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

62%
Turbo Clock Speed

2360 MHz

66%
Turbo Clock Speed

2500 MHz

84%
Base Frequency

1840 MHz

86%
Base Frequency

1900 MHz

  • Architecture 4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A73
    4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53
    1x 2.5 GHz – Kryo 670 Prime (Cortex-A78)
    3x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 670 Gold (Cortex-A78)
    4x 1.9 GHz – Kryo 670 Silver (Cortex-A55)
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv8.4-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache 0.5 MB 2 MB
  • L3 cache 2 MB -
  • Process 10 nm 6 nm
  • Transistor count 5.5 Billion -
  • TDP 9 W 5 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali G72 MP12 Adreno 642L
  • Architecture Bifrost Adreno 600
  • GPU frequency 850 MHz 550 MHz
  • Execution units 12 2
  • Shading units 192 384
  • FLOPS 347 Gigaflops 845 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 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 Hexagon 770
  • Storage type UFS 2.1 UFS 2.2, UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP, 2x 20MP 1x 192MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • 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 - X53
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support No Yes
  • Wi-Fi 5 6
  • Bluetooth 4.2 5.2
  • 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 778G Plus

CPU
33%
GPU
26%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%
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