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29

Points
Hisilicon Kirin 970

Kirin 970

95

Points
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)
Overview - Kirin 970 Vs Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Kirin 970 vs Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) 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.

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Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Kirin 970 13
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) 98
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Kirin 970 10
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) 99
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Kirin 970 64
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) 89
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Kirin 970 29
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) 95
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Kirin 970 Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)
CPU 77046 635739
GPU 90560 1237734
Memory 66398 460296
UX 59977 457187
Total score 293981 2790956
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

  • Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) has 29.41% higher GPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (1100 vs 850 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) has 185.80% higher memory frequency than Kirin 970 (5333 vs 1866 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) has 70% smaller sized transistor than Kirin 970 (3 vs 10 nm).
  • Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) has 849.37% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 970 (2,791 K vs 294 K ).
  • Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 970.
  • Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) Support 186.58% higher memory bandwidth than Kirin 970 (85.4 vs 29.8 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Kirin 970 390
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) 3155

Multi-Core Score

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Kirin 970 1361
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4) 9723

Image compression

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Kirin 970 76.9
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

Face detection

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Kirin 970 14
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

Speech recognition

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Kirin 970 24.5
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

Machine learning

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Kirin 970 21.8
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

Camera shooting

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Kirin 970 11.4
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

HTML 5

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Kirin 970 1.46
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

SQLite

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Kirin 970 417.7
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

3DMark

5%
Kirin 970
Stability 80%

Graphics test 6 FPS
121%
Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)
Stability %

Graphics test 140 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

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

CPU

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2360 MHz

0%
Turbo Clock Speed

MHz

45%
Base Frequency

1840 MHz

107%
Base Frequency

4320 MHz

  • Architecture 4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A73
    4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53
     2x 4.32 GHz – Oryon (Phoenix L)
    6x 3.53 GHz – Oryon (Phoenix M)
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv9.2-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache 0.5 MB 12 MB
  • L3 cache 2 MB -
  • Process 10 nm 3 nm
  • Transistor count 5.5 Billion -
  • TDP 9 W 8.2 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali G72 MP12 Adreno 830
  • Architecture Bifrost Adreno 800
  • GPU frequency 850 MHz 1100 MHz
  • Execution units 12 -
  • Shading units 192 768
  • FLOPS 347 Gigaflops 3379.2 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.0 1.3
  • OpenCL version 2.0 3.0
  • DirectX version 12 12.1
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 1866 MHz 5333 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 29.8 Gbit/s 85.4 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 24 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR5
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 2x 32 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Dedicated NPU Hexagon
  • Storage type UFS 2.1 UFS 4.0, UFS 4.1
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 3840 x 2540
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP, 2x 20MP 1x 320MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, VC-1 H.264, H.265, AV1, VP8, VP9
  • Audio codecs 32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - Snapdragon X80
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 24
  • 5G support No Yes
  • 5G Download Speed - -
  • 4G Download Speed 1200 Mbps 10000 Mbps
  • 5G Upload Speed - 3500 Mbps
  • 4G Upload Speed 150 Mbps -
  • Wi-Fi 5 7
  • Bluetooth 4.2 6.0
  • 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
13%
GPU
10%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
64%

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite (Gen 4)
CPU
98%
GPU
99%
Memory
62%
Energy efficiency and battery life
89%
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