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Home > Smartphone processors comparison > Dimensity 700 vs Kirin 970 – specs and benchmarks

Dimensity 700 Vs Kirin 970

Dimensity 700
VS
Kirin 970
Dimensity 700
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.
  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Benchmarks
  4. AnTuTu v9
  5. GeekBench 5
  6. Specs

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Dimensity 700
36
Kirin 970
26
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 700
24
Kirin 970
26
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 700
75
Kirin 970
64
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 700
45
Kirin 970
39

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 then Dimensity 700 (29.8 vs 17.07 GB/s).

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks
SoC:
Dimensity 700
vs
Kirin 970

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 700 +13%
336558
Kirin 970
293981
CPU 98632 77046
GPU 71777 90560
Memory 72555 66398
UX 93594 59977
Total score 336558 293981

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score
Dimensity 700 +39%
544
Kirin 970
390
Multi-Core Score
Dimensity 700 +38%
1884
Kirin 970
1361
Image compression 101.85 Mpixels/s 76.9 Mpixels/s
Face detection 15 images/s 14 images/s
Speech recognition 32.9 words/s 24.5 words/s
Machine learning 27.9 images/s 21.8 images/s
Camera shooting 14.55 images/s 11.4 images/s
HTML 5 2.1 Mnodes/s 1.46 Mnodes/s
SQLite 543.4 Mnodes/s 417.7 Mnodes/s

3DMark

8%
Mediatek 700
8%
Kirin 970
Score: 1097

Stability 99% 80%
Graphics test 6 FPS 6 FPS
Score 1097 1050

Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Mediatek Dimensity 700 and Hisilicon Kirin 970

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 -

  CPU

64%
Mediatek 700
68%
Kirin 970
Frequency

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
Base Frequency 2000 MHz 1840 MHz
Turbo Frequency 2200 MHz 2360 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8-A
L1 cache - -
L2 cache - 0.5 MB
L3 cache - 2 MB
Process 7 10
Transistor count - 5.5 Billion
TDP 10 W 9 W

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

Memory

Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
Memory frequency 2133 MHz 1866 MHz
Bus 2 x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 17.07 Gbit/s 29.8 Gbit/s
Max size 12 GB 8 GB

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 [email protected] kHz, HD-audio

Connectivity

Download Speed
4G (MB/s)
Dimensity 700
1200
Kirin 970
1200
5G (MB/s)
Dimensity 700
N/A
Kirin 970
N/A
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
Dimensity 700
211
Kirin 970
150
5G (MB/s)
Dimensity 700
500
Kirin 970
N/A
Modem - -
4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 18
5G support Yes No
Peak Download speed Up to 2770 Mbps -
Peak Upload speed Up to 500 Mbps -
Wi-Fi 5 5
Bluetooth 5.1 4.2
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Announced Date November 2020 September 2017
Class Mid-range Flagship
Model number MT6833V/ZA Hi3670
Official page Dimensity 700 official site Kirin 970 official site
Mediatek Dimensity 700
Mediatek Dimensity 700
CPU
65%
GPU
24%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%

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Review By TenzysTech
Hisilicon Kirin 970
Hisilicon Kirin 970
CPU
26%
GPU
26%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
64%

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Review By TenzysTech

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