Kirin 970 Vs Snapdragon 888 Plus
We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Kirin 970 vs Snapdragon 888 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.
Review
CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Key Differences
Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus
- Snapdragon 888 Plus has 26.91% higher CPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (2995 vs 2360 MHz).
- Snapdragon 888 Plus has 6.47% higher GPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (905 vs 850 MHz).
- Snapdragon 888 Plus has 71.49% higher memory frequency than Kirin 970 (3200 vs 1866 MHz).
- Snapdragon 888 Plus has 50% smaller sized transistor than Kirin 970 (5 vs 10 nm).
- Snapdragon 888 Plus has 188.05% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 970 (847 K vs 294 K ).
- Snapdragon 888 Plus has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 970.
- Snapdragon 888 Plus Support 71.81% higher memory bandwidth than Kirin 970 (51.2 vs 29.8 GB/s).
Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarksAnTuTu 9
| CPU | 77046 | 216591 |
| GPU | 90560 | 324286 |
| Memory | 66398 | 138188 |
| UX | 59977 | 167760 |
| Total score | 293981 | 846825 |
GeekBench 5
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
| Image compression | 76.9 Mpixels/s | - |
| Face detection | 14 images/s | - |
| Speech recognition | 24.5 words/s | - |
| Machine learning | 21.8 images/s | - |
| Camera shooting | 11.4 images/s | - |
| HTML 5 | 1.46 Mnodes/s | - |
| SQLite | 417.7 Mnodes/s | - |
3DMark
8%
Kirin 97045%
Snapdragon 888+Score: 5863
| Stability | 80% | 99% |
| Graphics test | 6 FPS | 33 FPS |
| Score | 1050 | 5863 |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of Hisilicon Kirin 970 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 PlusDisplay
| Max On-Device Display | 4K @ 60 Hz | 4K Ultra HD @ 60 Hz, QHD+ @ 144 Hz |
| Max On-Display Resolution | 3840 x 2160 | 3840 x 2160 |
| Max External Display | - | 4K @ 60 Hz |
| HDR | HDR, HDR-10 | Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG), HDR10+, Dolby Vision®, HDR10 |
| Color Depth | - | Up to 10-bit |
| Color Gamut | - | Rec. 2020 |
CPU
62%
Kirin 97079%
Snapdragon 888+
Processor Speed (Frequency)
| Architecture |
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A73 4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53 |
1x 2.995 GHz – Kryo 680 Prime (Cortex-X1) 3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 680 Gold (Cortex-A78) 4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 680 Silver (Cortex-A55) |
| Cores | 8 | 8 |
| Base Frequency | 1840 MHz | 1800 MHz |
| Turbo Frequency | 2360 MHz | 2995 MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8-A | ARMv8.4-A |
| L1 cache | - | 512 KB |
| L2 cache | 0.5 MB | 1 MB |
| L3 cache | 2 MB | 4 MB |
| Process | 10 nm | 5 nm |
| Transistor count | 5.5 Billion | 10.3 Billion |
| TDP | 9 W | 8 W |
Graphics
| GPU name | Mali G72 MP12 | Adreno 660 |
| Architecture | Bifrost | Adreno 600 |
| GPU frequency | 850 MHz | 905 MHz |
| Execution units | 12 | 2 |
| Shading units | 192 | 512 |
| FLOPS | 347 Gigaflops | 1853 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version | 1.0 | 1.1 |
| OpenCL version | 2.0 | 2.0 |
| DirectX version | 12 | 12 |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR4X | LPDDR5 |
| Memory frequency | 1866 MHz | 3200 MHz |
| Bus | 4x 16 Bit | 4x 16 Bit |
| Max bandwidth | 29.8 Gbit/s | 51.2 Gbit/s |
| Max size | 8 GB | 24 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Neural processor (NPU) | Dedicated NPU | Hexagon 780 |
| Storage type | UFS 2.1 | UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 |
| Max display resolution | 3840 x 2160 | 3840 x 2160 |
| Max camera resolution | 1x 48MP, 2x 20MP | 1x 2000MP, 2x 25MP |
| Video capture | 4K at 30FPS | 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS |
| Video playback | 4K at 60FPS | 8K 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 |
Connectivity
Download Speed
4G (MB/s)
5G (MB/s)
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
5G (MB/s)
| Modem | - | X60 |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 18 | LTE Cat. 22 |
| 5G support | No | Yes |
| Peak Download speed | - | Up to 7500 Mbps |
| Peak Upload speed | - | Up to 3000 Mbps |
| Wi-Fi | 5 | 6 |
| Bluetooth | 4.2 | 5.2 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC |
Info
| Announced Date | September 2017 | June 2021 |
| Class | Flagship | Flagship |
| Model number | Hi3670 | SM8350-AC |
| Official page | Kirin 970 official site | Snapdragon 888 Plus official site |
Hisilicon Kirin 970
28.25
Review By TenzysTech
Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Plus
41
Review By TenzysTech
