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Home > Smartphone processors comparison > Snapdragon 678 vs Kirin 970 – specs and benchmarks

Snapdragon 678 Vs Kirin 970

Snapdragon 678
VS
Kirin 970
Snapdragon 678
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.
  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Benchmarks
  4. AnTuTu v9
  5. GeekBench 5
  6. Specs

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Snapdragon 678
33
Kirin 970
26
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 678
21
Kirin 970
24
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 678
61
Kirin 970
64
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 678
38
Kirin 970
38

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 MHz).
  • 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 then Snapdragon 678 (29.8 vs 14.9 GB/s).

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks
SoC:
Snapdragon 678
vs
Kirin 970

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 678
283444
Kirin 970 +5%
293981
CPU 101216 77046
GPU 51346 90560
Memory 48181 66398
UX 82701 59977
Total score 283444 293981

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score
Snapdragon 678 +36%
529
Kirin 970
390
Multi-Core Score
Snapdragon 678 +13%
1536
Kirin 970
1361
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 678
8%
Kirin 970
Score: 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 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

64%
SD 678
68%
Kirin 970
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 10
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 [email protected] kHz, HD-audio

Connectivity

Download Speed
4G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 678
600
Kirin 970
1200
5G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 678
N/A
Kirin 970
N/A
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 678
150
Kirin 970
150
5G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 678
N/A
Kirin 970
N/A
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
Qualcomm Snapdragon 678
CPU
65%
GPU
21%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
61%

35


Review By TenzysTech
Hisilicon Kirin 970
Hisilicon Kirin 970
CPU
26%
GPU
24%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
64%

28.5


Review By TenzysTech

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