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Home > Smartphone processors comparison > Snapdragon 690 vs Kirin 970 – specs and benchmarks

Snapdragon 690 Vs Kirin 970

Snapdragon 690
VS
Kirin 970
Snapdragon 690
Kirin 970
We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 690 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 690
38
Kirin 970
26
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 690
26
Kirin 970
27
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 690
71
Kirin 970
64
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 690
45
Kirin 970
39

Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 690
  • Snapdragon 690 has 11.76% higher GPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (950 vs 850 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 690 has 14.31% higher memory frequency than Kirin 970 (2133 vs 1866 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 690 has 20% smaller sized transistor than Kirin 970 (8 vs 10 nm).
  • Snapdragon 690 has 17.49% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 970 (345 K vs 294 K).
  • Snapdragon 690 has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 970.
Pros of Hisilicon Kirin 970
  • Kirin 970 has 18% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 690 (2360 vs 2000 MHz).
  • Kirin 970 Support 100.00% higher memory bandwidth then Snapdragon 690 (29.8 vs 14.9 GB/s).

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks
SoC:
Snapdragon 690
vs
Kirin 970

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 690 +17%
345390
Kirin 970
293981
CPU 110385 77046
GPU 76645 90560
Memory 63724 66398
UX 94636 59977
Total score 345390 293981

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score
Snapdragon 690 +56%
607
Kirin 970
390
Multi-Core Score
Snapdragon 690 +36%
1852
Kirin 970
1361
Image compression 111.3 Mpixels/s 76.9 Mpixels/s
Face detection 16.9 images/s 14 images/s
Speech recognition 28.8 words/s 24.5 words/s
Machine learning 26.7 images/s 21.8 images/s
Camera shooting 15.9 images/s 11.4 images/s
HTML 5 2.25 Mnodes/s 1.46 Mnodes/s
SQLite 579.5 Mnodes/s 417.7 Mnodes/s

3DMark

6%
SD 690
8%
Kirin 970
Score: 1050

Stability 99% 80%
Graphics test 4 FPS 6 FPS
Score 811 1050

Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Qualcomm Snapdragon 690 and Hisilicon Kirin 970

Display

Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120 Hz 4K @ 60 Hz
Max On-Display Resolution 2520 x 1080 3840 x 2160
Max External Display QHD @ 60Hz -
HDR HDR10 HDR, HDR-10
Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
Color Gamut Rec2020 -

  CPU

58%
SD 690
68%
Kirin 970
Frequency

Architecture 2x 2 GHz – Kryo 560 Gold (Cortex-A77)
6x 1.7 GHz – Kryo 560 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 2000 MHz 2360 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8-A
L1 cache - -
L2 cache - 0.5 MB
L3 cache - 2 MB
Process 8 10
Transistor count - 5.5 Billion
TDP 6 W 9 W

Graphics

GPU name Adreno 619L Mali G72 MP12
Architecture Adreno 600 Bifrost
GPU frequency 950 MHz 850 MHz
Execution units 2 12
Shading units 128 192
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 14.9 Gbit/s 29.8 Gbit/s
Max size 8 GB 8 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 692 Dedicated NPU
Storage type eMMC 5.1, UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0 UFS 2.1
Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 3840 x 2160
Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 16MP 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, VP8, 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 690
1200
Kirin 970
1200
5G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 690
N/A
Kirin 970
N/A
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 690
210
Kirin 970
150
5G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 690
900
Kirin 970
N/A
Modem 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 5.1 4.2
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Announced Date June 2020 September 2017
Class Mid-range Flagship
Model number SM6350 Hi3670
Official page Snapdragon 690 official site Kirin 970 official site
Qualcomm Snapdragon 690
Qualcomm Snapdragon 690
CPU
65%
GPU
26%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
71%

40


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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