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Hisilicon Kirin 970
Overview - Dimensity 9200 Vs Kirin 970

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Dimensity 9200 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 9200 58
Kirin 970 15
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Dimensity 9200 60
Kirin 970 12
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Dimensity 9200 86
Kirin 970 64
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Dimensity 9200 68
Kirin 970 30
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Dimensity 9200 Kirin 970
CPU 275050 77046
GPU 568108 90560
Memory 240410 66398
UX 206002 59977
Total score 1289570 293981
Key Differences

Pros of MediaTek Dimensity 9200

  • Dimensity 9200 has 29.24% higher CPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (3050 vs 2360 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9200 has 15.41% higher GPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (981 vs 850 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9200 has 357.29% higher memory frequency than Kirin 970 (8533 vs 1866 MHz).
  • Dimensity 9200 has 60% smaller sized transistor than Kirin 970 (4 vs 10 nm).
  • Dimensity 9200 has 338.66% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 970 (1,290 K vs 294 K).
  • Dimensity 9200 has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 970.
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Dimensity 9200 1540
Kirin 970 390

Multi-Core Score

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Dimensity 9200 5210
Kirin 970 1361

Image compression

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Dimensity 9200
Kirin 970 76.9

Face detection

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Dimensity 9200
Kirin 970 14

Speech recognition

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Dimensity 9200
Kirin 970 24.5

Machine learning

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Dimensity 9200
Kirin 970 21.8

Camera shooting

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Dimensity 9200
Kirin 970 11.4

HTML 5

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Dimensity 9200
Kirin 970 1.46

SQLite

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Dimensity 9200
Kirin 970 417.7

3DMark

Stability 86%

Graphics test 72 FPS
Stability 80%

Graphics test 6 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display 4K @ 60Hz, QHD+ @ 168Hz 4K @ 60 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution - 3840 x 2160
  • Max External Display - -
  • HDR HDR10+ HDR, HDR-10
  • Color Depth - -
  • Color Gamut - -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

81%
Turbo Clock Speed

3050 MHz

62%
Turbo Clock Speed

2360 MHz

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

84%
Base Frequency

1840 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 3.05 GHz – Cortex-X3
    3x 2.85 GHz – Cortex-A715
    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 - -
  • L2 cache - 0.5 MB
  • L3 cache 8 MB 2 MB
  • Process 4 nm 10 nm
  • Transistor count 17 Billion 5.5 Billion
  • TDP - 9 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Mali-G715 Immortalis MC11 Mali G72 MP12
  • Architecture Valhall 3 Bifrost
  • GPU frequency 981 MHz 850 MHz
  • Execution units 11 12
  • Shading units - 192
  • FLOPS - 347 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.3 1.0
  • OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
  • DirectX version 12 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 8533 MHz 1866 MHz
  • Max bandwidth - 29.8 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 24 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR5X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4 x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) MediaTek APU 690 AI processor Dedicated NPU
  • Storage type UFS 4.0 UFS 2.1
  • Max display resolution 2960 x 1440 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1 x 320MP 1x 48MP, 2x 20MP
  • Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 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 5G R16 modem -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes No
  • Wi-Fi 7 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 9200

CPU
58%
GPU
60%
Memory
100%
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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