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Hisilicon Kirin 970
Overview - Dimensity 8200 Vs Kirin 970

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 8200 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 8200 43
Kirin 970 15
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 8200 40
Kirin 970 12
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 8200 86
Kirin 970 64
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 8200 56
Kirin 970 30
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 8200 Kirin 970
CPU 210639 77046
GPU 339646 90560
Memory 139322 66398
UX 160894 59977
Total score 850501 293981
Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 8200

  • Dimensity 8200 has 31.36% higher CPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (3100 vs 2360 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8200 has 242.98% higher memory frequency than Kirin 970 (6400 vs 1866 MHz).
  • Dimensity 8200 has 60% smaller sized transistor than Kirin 970 (4 vs 10 nm).
  • Dimensity 8200 has 189.30% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 970 (851 K vs 294 K).
  • Dimensity 8200 Support 71.81% higher memory bandwidth than Kirin 970 (51.2 vs 29.8 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 8200 1054
Kirin 970 390

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 8200 4010
Kirin 970 1361

Image compression

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Dimensity 8200
Kirin 970 76.9

Face detection

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Dimensity 8200
Kirin 970 14

Speech recognition

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Dimensity 8200
Kirin 970 24.5

Machine learning

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Dimensity 8200
Kirin 970 21.8

Camera shooting

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Dimensity 8200
Kirin 970 11.4

HTML 5

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Dimensity 8200
Kirin 970 1.46

SQLite

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Dimensity 8200
Kirin 970 417.7

3DMark

Stability %

Graphics test -
Stability 80%

Graphics test 6 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 120Hz WQHD+ / 180Hz Full HD+ display support 4K @ 60 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2960 x 1440 3840 x 2160
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR10+ Adaptive support HDR, HDR-10
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

82%
Turbo Clock Speed

3100 MHz

62%
Turbo Clock Speed

2360 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

84%
Base Frequency

1840 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 3.1 GHz – Cortex A78
    3x 3 GHz – Cortex A78
    4x 2 GHz – Cortex A55
    4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A73
    4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set - ARMv8-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - 0.5 MB
  • L3 cache 4 MB 2 MB
  • Process 4 nm 10 nm
  • Transistor count - 5.5 Billion
  • TDP - 9 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G610 MC6 Mali G72 MP12
  • Architecture Valhall 2 Bifrost
  • GPU frequency - 850 MHz
  • Execution units 6 12
  • Shading units - 192
  • FLOPS - 347 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.2 1.0
  • OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
  • DirectX version 12 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 6400 MHz 1866 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 51.2 Gbit/s 29.8 Gbit/s
  • Max Size - 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) MediaTek APU 580(Multi-Core) Dedicated NPU
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 UFS 2.1
  • Max display resolution 2960 x 1440 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 320MP 1x 48MP, 2x 20MP
  • Video capture 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
  • Video codecs H.264, H.265, AV1, 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

  • Modem - -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 21 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes No
  • Wi-Fi 6E 5
  • Bluetooth 5.3 4.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Mediatek Dimensity 8200

CPU
43%
GPU
40%
Memory
75%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

Hisilicon Kirin 970

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