Snapdragon 690 Vs 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.
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 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 benchmarksAnTuTu 9
| CPU | 110385 | 77046 |
| GPU | 76645 | 90560 |
| Memory | 63724 | 66398 |
| UX | 94636 | 59977 |
| Total score | 345390 | 293981 |
GeekBench 5
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
| 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 6908%
Kirin 970Score: 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 970Display
| 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 69068%
Kirin 970
Processor Speed (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 nm | 10 nm |
| 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)
5G (MB/s)
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
5G (MB/s)
| 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
38.75
Review By TenzysTech
Hisilicon Kirin 970
27
Review By TenzysTech
