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Home > Smartphone processors comparison > Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 vs Kirin 970 – specs and benchmarks

Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 Vs Kirin 970

Snapdragon 4 Gen 1
VS
Kirin 970
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1
Kirin 970
We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 vs Kirin 970 SoCs by Qualcomm 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
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1
39
Kirin 970
26
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1
28
Kirin 970
27
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1
79
Kirin 970
64
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1
49
Kirin 970
39

Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 1
  • Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 has 5.88% higher GPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (900 vs 850 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 has 14.31% higher memory frequency than Kirin 970 (2133 vs 1866 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 has 40% smaller sized transistor than Kirin 970 (6 vs 10 nm).
  • Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 has 32.01% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 970 (388 K vs 294 K).
Pros of Hisilicon Kirin 970
  • Kirin 970 has 18% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 (2360 vs 2000 MHz).
  • Kirin 970 Support 75.29% higher memory bandwidth then Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 (29.8 vs 17 GB/s).

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks
SoC:
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1
vs
Kirin 970

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 +30%
388092
Kirin 970
293981
CPU 114597 77046
GPU 93082 90560
Memory 68776 66398
UX 111637 59977
Total score 388092 293981

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 +59%
620
Kirin 970
390
Multi-Core Score
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 +35%
1835
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

0%
SD 4 Gen 1
8%
Kirin 970
Score: 1050

Stability - 80%
Graphics test - 6 FPS
Score - 1050

Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 and Hisilicon Kirin 970

Display

Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120 Hz, HD+ @ 120 Hz 4K @ 60 Hz
Max On-Display Resolution - 3840 x 2160
Max External Display - -
HDR - HDR, HDR-10
Color Depth - -
Color Gamut - -

  CPU

58%
SD 4 Gen 1
68%
Kirin 970
Frequency

Architecture 2x 2 GHz – Cortex-A78
6x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A73
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53
Cores 8 8
Base Frequency 1800 MHz 1840 MHz
Turbo Frequency 2000 MHz 2360 MHz
Instruction set - ARMv8-A
L1 cache - -
L2 cache - 0.5 MB
L3 cache - 2 MB
Process 6 10
Transistor count - 5.5 Billion
TDP - 9 W

Graphics

GPU name Adreno 619 Mali G72 MP12
Architecture Adreno 600 Bifrost
GPU frequency 900 MHz 850 MHz
Execution units 4 12
Shading units - 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 2x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 17 Gbit/s 29.8 Gbit/s
Max size 8 GB 8 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU) Yes Dedicated NPU
Storage type UFS 2.1, UFS 2.2 UFS 2.1
Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 3840 x 2160
Max camera resolution 1x 108MP 1x 48MP, 2x 20MP
Video capture 1K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
Video playback 1080p at 60FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs H.264, H.265, 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)
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1
800
Kirin 970
1200
5G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1
N/A
Kirin 970
N/A
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1
210
Kirin 970
150
5G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 4 Gen 1
900
Kirin 970
N/A
Modem Snapdragon X51 -
4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 18
5G support Yes No
Peak Download speed Up to 2500 Mbps -
Peak Upload speed Up to 900 Mbps -
Wi-Fi 5 5
Bluetooth 5.2 4.2
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Announced Date October 2022 September 2017
Class Low end Flagship
Model number SM4375 Hi3670
Official page Snapdragon 4 Gen 1 official site Kirin 970 official site
Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 1
Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 1
CPU
65%
GPU
28%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%

42.75


Review By TenzysTech
Hisilicon Kirin 970
Hisilicon Kirin 970
CPU
26%
GPU
27%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
64%

29.25


Review By TenzysTech

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