78

Points
Mediatek Dimensity 700

78

Points
Hisilicon Kirin 970
Overview - Dimensity 700 Vs Kirin 970

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 700 vs Kirin 970 SoCs by Mediatek and Hisilicon 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
Dimensity 700 21
Kirin 970 15
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 700 14
Kirin 970 12
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 700 75
Kirin 970 64
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 700 37
Kirin 970 30
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 700

  • Dimensity 700 has 11.76% higher GPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (950 vs 850 MHz).
  • Dimensity 700 has 14.31% higher memory frequency than Kirin 970 (2133 vs 1866 MHz).
  • Dimensity 700 has 30% smaller sized transistor than Kirin 970 (7 vs 10 nm).
  • Dimensity 700 has 14.48% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 970 (337 K vs 294 K).
  • Dimensity 700 has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 970.

Pros of Hisilicon Kirin 970

  • Kirin 970 has 7.27% higher CPU clock speed than Dimensity 700 (2360 vs 2200 MHz).
  • Kirin 970 Support 74.58% higher memory bandwidth than Dimensity 700 (29.8 vs 17.07 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 700 544
Kirin 970 390

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 700 1884
Kirin 970 1361

Image compression

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Dimensity 700 101.85
Kirin 970 76.9

Face detection

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Dimensity 700 15
Kirin 970 14

Speech recognition

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Dimensity 700 32.9
Kirin 970 24.5

Machine learning

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Dimensity 700 27.9
Kirin 970 21.8

Camera shooting

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Dimensity 700 14.55
Kirin 970 11.4

HTML 5

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Dimensity 700 2.1
Kirin 970 1.46

SQLite

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Dimensity 700 543.4
Kirin 970 417.7

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 6 FPS
Stability 80%

Graphics test 6 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 90Hz 4K @ 60 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 3840 x 2160
  • Max External Display QHD @ 60Hz -
  • HDR HDR10 HDR, HDR-10
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

62%
Turbo Clock Speed

2360 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

84%
Base Frequency

1840 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.2 GHz – Cortex-A76
    6x 2 GHz – Cortex-A55
    4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A73
    4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - 0.5 MB
  • L3 cache - 2 MB
  • Process 7 nm 10 nm
  • Transistor count - 5.5 Billion
  • TDP 10 W 9 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G57 MC2 Mali G72 MP12
  • Architecture Valhall Bifrost
  • GPU frequency 950 MHz 850 MHz
  • Execution units 2 12
  • Shading units 32 192
  • FLOPS 243 Gigaflops 347 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 1.0
  • OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
  • DirectX version 12 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

memory-frequency

Memory frequency

2133 MHz
memory-frequency

Memory frequency

1866 MHz
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

17.07 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max Size

12 GB
memory-frequency

Max Size

8 GB

  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 2 x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Yes Dedicated NPU
  • Storage type UFS 2.2 UFS 2.1
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 64MP, 2x 16MP 1x 48MP, 2x 20MP
  • Video capture 2K at 30FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 2K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, VC-1
  • Audio codecs AAC LC, MP3, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, FLAC 32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

4G Speed
  • 1200 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 211 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • 1200 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 150 Mbps
    Upload Speed
5G Speed
  • 2770 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 500 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • -
    Download Speed
  • -
    Upload Speed

  • Modem - -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes No
  • Wi-Fi 5 5
  • Bluetooth 5.1 4.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Mediatek Dimensity 700

CPU
21%
GPU
14%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%

Hisilicon Kirin 970

CPU
15%
GPU
12%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
64%
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