78

Points
Mediatek Dimensity 900

78

Points
Hisilicon Kirin 970
Overview - Dimensity 900 Vs 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.

Features

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Dimensity 900 25
Kirin 970 15
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 900 19
Kirin 970 12
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 900 79
Kirin 970 64
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 900 41
Kirin 970 30
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 900 Kirin 970
CPU 125384 77046
GPU 125188 90560
Memory 83836 66398
UX 133752 59977
Total score 468160 293981
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 than Dimensity 900 (29.8 vs 18.4 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 900 706
Kirin 970 390

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 900 2137
Kirin 970 1361

Image compression

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Dimensity 900 123.5
Kirin 970 76.9

Face detection

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Dimensity 900 20.5
Kirin 970 14

Speech recognition

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Dimensity 900 38.3
Kirin 970 24.5

Machine learning

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Dimensity 900 33.1
Kirin 970 21.8

Camera shooting

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Dimensity 900 19.6
Kirin 970 11.4

HTML 5

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Dimensity 900 2.51
Kirin 970 1.46

SQLite

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Dimensity 900 632.6
Kirin 970 417.7

3DMark

Stability 98%

Graphics test 12 FPS
Stability 80%

Graphics test 6 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+@120Hz 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 - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

63%
Turbo Clock Speed

2400 MHz

62%
Turbo Clock Speed

2360 MHz

91%
Base Frequency

2000 MHz

84%
Base Frequency

1840 MHz

  • 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
  • Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv8-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - 0.5 MB
  • L3 cache - 2 MB
  • Process 6 nm 10 nm
  • Transistor count 10 Billion 5.5 Billion
  • TDP 10 W 9 W
Full list of technical specifications

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
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 3200 MHz 1866 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 18.4 Gbit/s 29.8 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 16 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

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 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem - -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes No
  • Wi-Fi 6 5
  • Bluetooth 5.2 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 900

CPU
25%
GPU
19%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%

Hisilicon Kirin 970

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