78

Points
Hisilicon Kirin 970

78

Points
Samsung Exynos 850
Overview - Kirin 970 Vs Exynos 850

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Kirin 970 vs Exynos 850 SoCs by Hisilicon and Samsung 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
Exynos 850 9
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Kirin 970 12
Exynos 850 6
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Kirin 970 64
Exynos 850 71
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Kirin 970 30
Exynos 850 29
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Kirin 970 Exynos 850
CPU 77046 47291
GPU 90560 21386
Memory 66398 40704
UX 59977 22040
Total score 293981 131421
Key Differences

Pros of Hisilicon Kirin 970

  • Kirin 970 has 3.66% higher GPU clock speed than Exynos 850 (850 vs 820 MHz).
  • Kirin 970 has 123.69% better AnTuTu 9 score than Exynos 850 (294 K vs 131 K).
  • Kirin 970 Support 300.00% higher memory bandwidth than Exynos 850 (1200 vs 300 MHz).

Pros of Samsung Exynos 850

  • Exynos 850 has 20% smaller sized transistor than Kirin 970 (8 vs 10 nm).
  • Exynos 850 has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 970.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Kirin 970 390
Exynos 850 150

Multi-Core Score

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Kirin 970 1361
Exynos 850 937

Image compression

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Kirin 970 76.9
Exynos 850 74.3

Face detection

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Kirin 970 14
Exynos 850 10.4

Speech recognition

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Kirin 970 24.5
Exynos 850 16.7

Machine learning

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Kirin 970 21.8
Exynos 850 12.4

Camera shooting

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Kirin 970 11.4
Exynos 850 5.29

HTML 5

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Kirin 970 1.46
Exynos 850 1.38

SQLite

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Kirin 970 417.7
Exynos 850 356.2

3DMark

Stability 80%

Graphics test 6 FPS
Stability 98%

Graphics test 3 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K @ 60 Hz Full HD+
  • 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

0%
Turbo Clock Speed

MHz

84%
Base Frequency

1840 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

  • Architecture 4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A73
    4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53
    8x 2 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 8 nm
  • Transistor count 5.5 Billion -
  • TDP 9 W 3 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali G72 MP12 Mali-G52 MP1
  • Architecture Bifrost Bifrost
  • GPU frequency 850 MHz 820 MHz
  • Execution units 12 6
  • Shading units 192 96
  • FLOPS 347 Gigaflops 126 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 -
  • 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 No
  • Storage type UFS 2.1 eMMC 5.1
  • Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 2520 x 1080
  • Max camera resolution 1x 48MP, 2x 20MP 1x 48MP, 2x 16MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30FPS 1K at 60FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 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 AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 13
  • 5G support No No
  • Wi-Fi 5 5
  • Bluetooth 4.2 5.1
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
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%

Samsung Exynos 850

CPU
9%
GPU
6%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
71%
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