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Home > Smartphone processors comparison > Helio G96 vs Kirin 970 – specs and benchmarks

Helio G96 Vs Kirin 970

Helio G96
VS
Kirin 970
Helio G96
Kirin 970
We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Helio G96 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
Helio G96
36
Kirin 970
26
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Helio G96
25
Kirin 970
26
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Helio G96
57
Kirin 970
64
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Helio G96
39
Kirin 970
39

Key Differences

Pros of Mediatek Helio G96
  • Helio G96 has 11.76% higher GPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (950 vs 850 MHz).
  • Helio G96 has 14.31% higher memory frequency than Kirin 970 (2133 vs 1866 MHz).
  • Helio G96 has 15.47% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 970 (339 K vs 294 K).
  • Helio G96 has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 970.
Pros of Hisilicon Kirin 970
  • Kirin 970 has 15.12% higher CPU clock speed than Helio G96 (2360 vs 2050 MHz).
  • Kirin 970 has -16.67% smaller sized transistor than Helio G96 (10 vs 12 MHz).

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks
SoC:
Helio G96
vs
Kirin 970

AnTuTu 9

Helio G96 +13%
339450
Kirin 970
293981
CPU 98570 77046
GPU 76840 90560
Memory 70017 66398
UX 94023 59977
Total score 339450 293981

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score
Helio G96 +39%
544
Kirin 970
390
Multi-Core Score
Helio G96 +38%
1884
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

8%
Mediatek G96
8%
Kirin 970
Score: 1086

Stability 99% 80%
Graphics test 6 FPS 6 FPS
Score 1086 1050

Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Mediatek Helio G96 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

59%
Mediatek G96
68%
Kirin 970
Frequency

Architecture 2x 2.05 GHz – Cortex-A76
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 2050 MHz 2360 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8-A
L1 cache - -
L2 cache - 0.5 MB
L3 cache - 2 MB
Process 12 10
Transistor count - 5.5 Billion
TDP - 9 W

Graphics

GPU name Mali G57 MC2 Mali G72 MP12
Architecture Valhall Bifrost
GPU frequency 950 MHz 850 MHz
Execution units 2 12
Shading units 32 192
FLOPS - 347 Gigaflops
Vulkan version 1.1 1.0
OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
DirectX version 12 12

Memory

Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
Memory frequency 2133 MHz 1866 MHz
Bus 2 x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth - 29.8 Gbit/s
Max size 10 GB 8 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU) Yes Dedicated NPU
Storage type eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1 UFS 2.1
Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 3840 x 2160
Max camera resolution 1x 108MP, 2x 16MP 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, 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)
Helio G96
600
Kirin 970
1200
5G (MB/s)
Helio G96
N/A
Kirin 970
N/A
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
Helio G96
150
Kirin 970
150
5G (MB/s)
Helio G96
N/A
Kirin 970
N/A
Modem - -
4G support LTE Cat. 13 LTE Cat. 18
5G support No No
Peak Download speed - -
Peak Upload speed - -
Wi-Fi 5 5
Bluetooth 5.2 4.2
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Announced Date June 2021 September 2017
Class Mid-range Flagship
Model number MT6781 Hi3670
Official page Helio G96 official site Kirin 970 official site
Mediatek Helio G96
Mediatek Helio G96
CPU
65%
GPU
25%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
57%

35.75


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

29


Review By TenzysTech

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