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Home > Smartphone processors comparison > Dimensity 920 vs Kirin 970 – specs and benchmarks

Dimensity 920 Vs Kirin 970

Dimensity 920
VS
Kirin 970
Dimensity 920
Kirin 970
We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 920 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 920
50
Kirin 970
26
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 920
36
Kirin 970
33
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 920
79
Kirin 970
64
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 920
55
Kirin 970
41

Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Dimensity 920
  • Dimensity 920 has 5.93% higher CPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (2500 vs 2360 MHz).
  • Dimensity 920 has 11.76% higher GPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (950 vs 850 MHz).
  • Dimensity 920 has 71.49% higher memory frequency than Kirin 970 (3200 vs 1866 MHz).
  • Dimensity 920 has 40% smaller sized transistor than Kirin 970 (6 vs 10 nm).
  • Dimensity 920 has 69.51% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 970 (498 K vs 294 K).

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks
SoC:
Dimensity 920
vs
Kirin 970

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 920 +70%
498317
Kirin 970
293981
CPU 139277 77046
GPU 128453 90560
Memory 96272 66398
UX 134315 59977
Total score 498317 293981

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score
Dimensity 920 +103%
792
Kirin 970
390
Multi-Core Score
Dimensity 920 +90%
2592
Kirin 970
1361
Image compression - 76.9 Mpixels/s
Face detection - 14 images/s
Speech recognition - 24.5 words/s
Machine learning - 21.8 images/s
Camera shooting - 11.4 images/s
HTML 5 - 1.46 Mnodes/s
SQLite - 417.7 Mnodes/s

3DMark

15%
Mediatek 920
8%
Kirin 970
Score: 2003

Stability 99% 80%
Graphics test 12 FPS 6 FPS
Score 2003 1050

Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Mediatek Dimensity 920 and Hisilicon Kirin 970

Display

Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120Hz 4K @ 60 Hz
Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 3840 x 2160
Max External Display - -
HDR HDR10 HDR, HDR-10
Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
Color Gamut Rec2020 -

  CPU

72%
Mediatek 920
68%
Kirin 970
Frequency

Architecture 2x 2.5 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 2500 MHz 2360 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv8-A
L1 cache - -
L2 cache - 0.5 MB
L3 cache 2 MB 2 MB
Process 6 10
Transistor count 12 Billion 5.5 Billion
TDP 10 W 9 W

Graphics

GPU name Mali-G68 MC4 Mali G72 MP12
Architecture Valhall 2 Bifrost
GPU frequency 950 MHz 850 MHz
Execution units 4 12
Shading units 64 192
FLOPS 684 Gigaflops 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 - 29.8 Gbit/s
Max size 16 GB 8 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU) MediaTek APU 3.0 Dedicated NPU
Storage type UFS 2.1, UFS 2.2, 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 AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV 32 [email protected] kHz, HD-audio

Connectivity

Download Speed
4G (MB/s)
Dimensity 920
1200
Kirin 970
1200
5G (MB/s)
Dimensity 920
N/A
Kirin 970
N/A
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
Dimensity 920
800
Kirin 970
150
5G (MB/s)
Dimensity 920
2500
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 2500 Mbps -
Wi-Fi 6 5
Bluetooth 5.2 4.2
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Announced Date August 2021 September 2017
Class Mid-range Flagship
Model number MT6877T Hi3670
Official page Dimensity 920 official site Kirin 970 official site
Mediatek Dimensity 920
Mediatek Dimensity 920
CPU
65%
GPU
36%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%

50.75


Review By TenzysTech
Hisilicon Kirin 970
Hisilicon Kirin 970
CPU
26%
GPU
33%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
64%

30.75


Review By TenzysTech

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