Snapdragon 680 Vs 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.
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 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 benchmarksAnTuTu 9
| CPU | 81097 | 77046 |
| GPU | 38425 | 90560 |
| Memory | 68438 | 66398 |
| UX | 63600 | 59977 |
| Total score | 251560 | 293981 |
GeekBench 5
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
| 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 6808%
Kirin 970Score: 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 970Display
| 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 68068%
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)
5G (MB/s)
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
5G (MB/s)
| 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
37
Review By TenzysTech
Hisilicon Kirin 970
27.75
Review By TenzysTech
