Snapdragon 678 Vs Kirin 970
We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 678 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.
Review
CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Key Differences
Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 678
- Snapdragon 678 has 14.31% higher memory frequency than Kirin 970 (2133 vs 1866 MHz).
Pros of Hisilicon Kirin 970
- Kirin 970 has 7.27% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 678 (2360 vs 2200 MHz).
- Kirin 970 has 0.59% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 678 (850 vs 845 MHz).
- Kirin 970 has 9.09% smaller sized transistor than Snapdragon 678 (10 vs 11 nm).
- Kirin 970 has 3.72% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 678 (294 K vs 283 K ).
- Kirin 970 Support 100.00% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 678 (29.8 vs 14.9 GB/s).
Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarksAnTuTu 9
| CPU | 101216 | 77046 |
| GPU | 51346 | 90560 |
| Memory | 48181 | 66398 |
| UX | 82701 | 59977 |
| Total score | 283444 | 293981 |
GeekBench 5
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
| Image compression | 102.2 Mpixels/s | 76.9 Mpixels/s |
| Face detection | 14.5 images/s | 14 images/s |
| Speech recognition | 27.8 words/s | 24.5 words/s |
| Machine learning | 23.7 images/s | 21.8 images/s |
| Camera shooting | 13.7 images/s | 11.4 images/s |
| HTML 5 | 2.05 Mnodes/s | 1.46 Mnodes/s |
| SQLite | 527.2 Mnodes/s | 417.7 Mnodes/s |
3DMark
4%
SD 6788%
Kirin 970Score: 1050
| Stability | 99% | 80% |
| Graphics test | 2 FPS | 6 FPS |
| Score | 482 | 1050 |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of Qualcomm Snapdragon 678 and Hisilicon Kirin 970Display
| 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
58%
SD 67862%
Kirin 970
Processor Speed (Frequency)
| Architecture |
2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 460 Gold (Cortex-A76) 6x 1.7 GHz – Kryo 460 Silver (Cortex-A55) |
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A73 4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53 |
| Cores | 8 | 8 |
| Base Frequency | 1700 MHz | 1840 MHz |
| Turbo Frequency | 2200 MHz | 2360 MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv8-A | ARMv8-A |
| L1 cache | 16 KB | - |
| L2 cache | 0.256 MB | 0.5 MB |
| L3 cache | - | 2 MB |
| Process | 11 nm | 10 nm |
| Transistor count | 12 Billion | 5.5 Billion |
| TDP | 6 W | 9 W |
Graphics
| GPU name | Adreno 612 | Mali G72 MP12 |
| Architecture | Adreno 600 | Bifrost |
| GPU frequency | 845 MHz | 850 MHz |
| Execution units | 2 | 12 |
| Shading units | 96 | 192 |
| FLOPS | 354 Gigaflops | 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 | 14.9 Gbit/s | 29.8 Gbit/s |
| Max size | 8 GB | 8 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Neural processor (NPU) | Hexagon 685 | 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 192MP, 2x 25MP | 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 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio |
Connectivity
Download Speed
4G (MB/s)
5G (MB/s)
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
5G (MB/s)
| Modem | X12 | - |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 12 | LTE Cat. 18 |
| 5G support | No | No |
| Peak Download speed | - | - |
| Peak Upload speed | - | - |
| Wi-Fi | 6 | 5 |
| Bluetooth | 5.0 | 4.2 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo |
Info
| Announced Date | December 2020 | September 2017 |
| Class | Mid-range | Flagship |
| Model number | SM6150-AC | Hi3670 |
| Official page | Snapdragon 678 official site | Kirin 970 official site |
Qualcomm Snapdragon 678
29.25
Review By TenzysTech
Hisilicon Kirin 970
22.75
Review By TenzysTech
