Overview - Kirin 970 Vs Snapdragon 7s Gen 2

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Kirin 970 vs Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 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 7s Gen 2 34
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Kirin 970 12
Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 30
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Kirin 970 64
Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 86
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Kirin 970 30
Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 50
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Kirin 970 Snapdragon 7s Gen 2
CPU 77046 149371
GPU 90560 232144
Memory 66398 105312
UX 59977 114446
Total score 293981 601273
Key Differences

Pros of Hisilicon Kirin 970

  • Kirin 970 Support 16.41% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 (29.8 vs 25.6 MHz).

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 2

  • Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 has 1.69% higher CPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (2400 vs 2360 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 has 10.59% higher GPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (940 vs 850 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 has 71.49% higher memory frequency than Kirin 970 (3200 vs 1866 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 has 60% smaller sized transistor than Kirin 970 (4 vs 10 nm).
  • Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 has 104.53% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 970 (601 K vs 294 K ).
  • Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 970.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Kirin 970 390
Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 1001

Multi-Core Score

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Kirin 970 1361
Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 2913

Image compression

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Kirin 970 76.9
Snapdragon 7s Gen 2

Face detection

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Kirin 970 14
Snapdragon 7s Gen 2

Speech recognition

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Kirin 970 24.5
Snapdragon 7s Gen 2

Machine learning

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Kirin 970 21.8
Snapdragon 7s Gen 2

Camera shooting

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Kirin 970 11.4
Snapdragon 7s Gen 2

HTML 5

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Kirin 970 1.46
Snapdragon 7s Gen 2

SQLite

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Kirin 970 417.7
Snapdragon 7s Gen 2

3DMark

Stability 80%

Graphics test 6 FPS
Stability 99%

Graphics test 18 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K @ 60 Hz FHD+ @ 144 Hz, FHD+ @ 120 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR, HDR-10 -
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

62%
Turbo Clock Speed

2360 MHz

63%
Turbo Clock Speed

2400 MHz

84%
Base Frequency

1840 MHz

89%
Base Frequency

1950 MHz

  • Architecture 4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A73
    4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53
    4x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A78
    4x 1.95 GHz – Cortex-A55
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv8.2-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 5 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali G72 MP12 Adreno 710
  • Architecture Bifrost Adreno 700
  • GPU frequency 850 MHz 940 MHz
  • Execution units 12 -
  • Shading units 192 -
  • FLOPS 347 Gigaflops -
  • Vulkan version 1.0 -
  • OpenCL version 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 2.2, UFS 3.1
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP, 2x 20MP 1x 200MP
  • 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, VP9
  • Audio codecs 32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - Snapdragon X62
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support No Yes
  • Wi-Fi 5 6
  • Bluetooth 4.2 5.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, 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 7s Gen 2

CPU
34%
GPU
30%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%
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