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Home > Smartphone processors comparison > Snapdragon 680 vs Kirin 970 – specs and benchmarks

Snapdragon 680 Vs Kirin 970

Snapdragon 680
VS
Kirin 970
Snapdragon 680
Kirin 970
We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 680 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 680
27
Kirin 970
26
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 680
17
Kirin 970
21
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 680
79
Kirin 970
64
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 680
41
Kirin 970
37

Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 680
  • Snapdragon 680 has 1.69% higher CPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (2400 vs 2360 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 680 has 31.06% higher GPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (1114 vs 850 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 680 has 14.31% higher memory frequency than Kirin 970 (2133 vs 1866 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 680 has 40% smaller sized transistor than Kirin 970 (6 vs 10 nm).
Pros of Hisilicon Kirin 970
  • Kirin 970 has 16.86% better AnTuTu 9 score than Snapdragon 680 (294 K vs 252 K ).
  • Kirin 970 Support 75.29% higher memory bandwidth then Snapdragon 680 (29.8 vs 17 GB/s).

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks
SoC:
Snapdragon 680
vs
Kirin 970

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 680
251560
Kirin 970 +15%
293981
CPU 81097 77046
GPU 38425 90560
Memory 68438 66398
UX 63600 59977
Total score 251560 293981

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score
Snapdragon 680
368
Kirin 970 +6%
390
Multi-Core Score
Snapdragon 680 +10%
1496
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

3%
SD 680
8%
Kirin 970
Score: 1050

Stability 99% 80%
Graphics test 2 FPS 6 FPS
Score 443 1050

Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Qualcomm Snapdragon 680 and Hisilicon Kirin 970

Display

Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 90 Hz 4K @ 60 Hz
Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 3840 x 2160
Max External Display - -
HDR - HDR, HDR-10
Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
Color Gamut Rec2020 -

  CPU

69%
SD 680
68%
Kirin 970
Frequency

Architecture 4x 2.4 GHz – Kryo 265 Gold (Cortex-A73)
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 265 Silver (Cortex-A53)
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A73
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53
Cores 8 8
Base Frequency 1800 MHz 1840 MHz
Turbo Frequency 2400 MHz 2360 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8-A 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 610 Mali G72 MP12
Architecture Adreno 610 Bifrost
GPU frequency 1114 MHz 850 MHz
Execution units 2 12
Shading units 96 192
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) Hexagon 686 Dedicated NPU
Storage type eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.2 UFS 2.1
Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 3840 x 2160
Max camera resolution 1x 64MP, 2x 16MP 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, VP8, 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 680
390
Kirin 970
1200
5G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 680
N/A
Kirin 970
N/A
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 680
150
Kirin 970
150
5G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 680
N/A
Kirin 970
N/A
Modem X11 -
4G support LTE Cat. 13 LTE Cat. 18
5G support No No
Peak Download speed - -
Peak Upload speed - -
Wi-Fi 5 5
Bluetooth 5.1 4.2
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Announced Date October 2021 September 2017
Class Mid-range Flagship
Model number SM6225 Hi3670
Official page Snapdragon 680 official site Kirin 970 official site
Qualcomm Snapdragon 680
Qualcomm Snapdragon 680
CPU
65%
GPU
17%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%

37


Review By TenzysTech
Hisilicon Kirin 970
Hisilicon Kirin 970
CPU
26%
GPU
21%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
64%

27.75


Review By TenzysTech

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