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Home > Smartphone processors comparison > Dimensity 900 vs Kirin 970 – specs and benchmarks

Dimensity 900 Vs Kirin 970

Dimensity 900
VS
Kirin 970
Dimensity 900
Kirin 970
We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 900 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 900
44
Kirin 970
26
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 900
33
Kirin 970
30
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 900
79
Kirin 970
64
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 900
52
Kirin 970
40

Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 900
  • Dimensity 900 has 1.69% higher CPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (2400 vs 2360 MHz).
  • Dimensity 900 has 5.88% higher GPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (900 vs 850 MHz).
  • Dimensity 900 has 71.49% higher memory frequency than Kirin 970 (3200 vs 1866 MHz).
  • Dimensity 900 has 40% smaller sized transistor than Kirin 970 (6 vs 10 nm).
  • Dimensity 900 has 59.25% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 970 (468 K vs 294 K).
Pros of Hisilicon Kirin 970
  • Kirin 970 Support 61.96% higher memory bandwidth then Dimensity 900 (29.8 vs 18.4 GB/s).

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks
SoC:
Dimensity 900
vs
Kirin 970

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 900 +57%
468160
Kirin 970
293981
CPU 125384 77046
GPU 125188 90560
Memory 83836 66398
UX 133752 59977
Total score 468160 293981

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score
Dimensity 900 +81%
706
Kirin 970
390
Multi-Core Score
Dimensity 900 +57%
2137
Kirin 970
1361
Image compression 123.5 Mpixels/s 76.9 Mpixels/s
Face detection 20.5 images/s 14 images/s
Speech recognition 38.3 words/s 24.5 words/s
Machine learning 33.1 images/s 21.8 images/s
Camera shooting 19.6 images/s 11.4 images/s
HTML 5 2.51 Mnodes/s 1.46 Mnodes/s
SQLite 632.6 Mnodes/s 417.7 Mnodes/s

3DMark

17%
Dimensity 900
8%
Kirin 970
Score: 2167

Stability 98% 80%
Graphics test 12 FPS 6 FPS
Score 2167 1050

Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Mediatek Dimensity 900 and Hisilicon Kirin 970

Display

Max On-Device Display [email protected] 4K @ 60 Hz
Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 3840 x 2160
Max External Display - -
HDR HDR HDR, HDR-10
Color Depth - -
Color Gamut - -

  CPU

69%
Dimensity 900
68%
Kirin 970
Frequency

Architecture 2x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A78
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 2400 MHz 2360 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv8-A
L1 cache - -
L2 cache - 0.5 MB
L3 cache - 2 MB
Process 6 10
Transistor count 10 Billion 5.5 Billion
TDP 10 W 9 W

Graphics

GPU name Mali-G68 MC4 Mali G72 MP12
Architecture Valhall 2 Bifrost
GPU frequency 900 MHz 850 MHz
Execution units 4 12
Shading units 48 192
FLOPS - 347 Gigaflops
Vulkan version 1.1 1.0
OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
DirectX version 12 12

Memory

Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
Memory frequency 3200 MHz 1866 MHz
Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 18.4 Gbit/s 29.8 Gbit/s
Max size 16 GB 8 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU) Yes Dedicated NPU
Storage type UFS 2.1, UFS 3.1 UFS 2.1
Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 3840 x 2160
Max camera resolution 1x 108MP, 2x 20MP 1x 48MP, 2x 20MP
Video capture 4K at 30FPS 4K at 30FPS
Video playback 4K at 30FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9 H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, VC-1
Audio codecs AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV 32 [email protected] kHz, HD-audio

Connectivity

Download Speed
4G (MB/s)
Dimensity 900
1200
Kirin 970
1200
5G (MB/s)
Dimensity 900
N/A
Kirin 970
N/A
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
Dimensity 900
211
Kirin 970
150
5G (MB/s)
Dimensity 900
N/A
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 - -
Wi-Fi 6 5
Bluetooth 5.2 4.2
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Announced Date May 2021 September 2017
Class Mid range Flagship
Model number MT6877 Hi3670
Official page Dimensity 900 official site Kirin 970 official site
Mediatek Dimensity 900
Mediatek Dimensity 900
CPU
65%
GPU
33%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%

48.5


Review By TenzysTech
Hisilicon Kirin 970
Hisilicon Kirin 970
CPU
26%
GPU
30%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
64%

30


Review By TenzysTech

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