Overview - Dimensity 9000 Plus Vs Kirin 970

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 9000 Plus 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 9000 Plus 53
Kirin 970 15
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 9000 Plus 50
Kirin 970 12
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 9000 Plus 86
Kirin 970 64
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 9000 Plus 63
Kirin 970 30
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 9000 Plus Kirin 970
CPU 291317 77046
GPU 430867 90560
Memory 218270 66398
UX 206140 59977
Total score 1146594 293981
Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 9000 Plus

  • Dimensity 9000 Plus has 35.59% higher CPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (3200 vs 2360 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9000 Plus has 100.96% higher memory frequency than Kirin 970 (3750 vs 1866 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9000 Plus has 60% smaller sized transistor than Kirin 970 (4 vs 10 nm).
  • Dimensity 9000 Plus has 290.02% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 970 (1,147 K vs 294 K).
  • Dimensity 9000 Plus has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 970.
  • Dimensity 9000 Plus Support 101.34% higher memory bandwidth than Kirin 970 (60 vs 29.8 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9000 Plus Support 113.33% higher memory bandwidth than Kirin 970 (2560 vs 1200 MHz).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 9000 Plus 1349
Kirin 970 390

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 9000 Plus 4342
Kirin 970 1361

Image compression

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Dimensity 9000 Plus
Kirin 970 76.9

Face detection

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Dimensity 9000 Plus
Kirin 970 14

Speech recognition

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Dimensity 9000 Plus
Kirin 970 24.5

Machine learning

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Dimensity 9000 Plus
Kirin 970 21.8

Camera shooting

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Dimensity 9000 Plus
Kirin 970 11.4

HTML 5

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Dimensity 9000 Plus
Kirin 970 1.46

SQLite

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Dimensity 9000 Plus
Kirin 970 417.7

3DMark

Stability 86%

Graphics test 51 FPS
Stability 80%

Graphics test 6 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 180Hz, WQHD+ @ 144Hz 4K @ 60 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 2960 x 1440 3840 x 2160
  • Max External Display 2K @ 144 Hz -
  • HDR HDR10+ Adaptive HDR, HDR-10
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

85%
Turbo Clock Speed

3200 MHz

62%
Turbo Clock Speed

2360 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

84%
Base Frequency

1840 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X2
    3x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-A710
    4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510
    4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A73
    4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8-A
  • L1 cache 1024 KB -
  • L2 cache 3.5 MB 0.5 MB
  • L3 cache 8 MB 2 MB
  • Process 4 nm 10 nm
  • Transistor count - 5.5 Billion
  • TDP 4 W 9 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G710 MC10 Mali G72 MP12
  • Architecture Valhall 3 Bifrost
  • GPU frequency - 850 MHz
  • Execution units 10 12
  • Shading units 512 192
  • FLOPS - 347 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 1.0
  • OpenCL version 2 2.0
  • DirectX version 12 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 3750 MHz 1866 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 60 Gbit/s 29.8 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 24 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5x LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Yes Dedicated NPU
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 UFS 2.1
  • Max display resolution 2960 x 1440 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 320MP, 3x 32MP 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. 24 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes No
  • Wi-Fi 6 5
  • Bluetooth 5.3 4.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Mediatek Dimensity 9000 Plus

CPU
53%
GPU
50%
Memory
44%
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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