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Hisilicon Kirin 970
Overview - Snapdragon 695 Vs Kirin 970

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 695 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.

Features

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Snapdragon 695 23
Kirin 970 15
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 695 17
Kirin 970 12
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 695 79
Kirin 970 64
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 695 40
Kirin 970 30
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 695 Kirin 970
CPU 115765 77046
GPU 93638 90560
Memory 60715 66398
UX 101282 59977
Total score 371400 293981
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 695

  • Snapdragon 695 has 14.31% higher memory frequency than Kirin 970 (2133 vs 1866 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 695 has 40% smaller sized transistor than Kirin 970 (6 vs 10 nm).
  • Snapdragon 695 has 26.33% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 970 (371 K vs 294 K).
  • Snapdragon 695 has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 970.

Pros of Hisilicon Kirin 970

  • Kirin 970 has 7.27% higher CPU clock speed than Snapdragon 695 (2360 vs 2200 MHz).
  • Kirin 970 has 1.19% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 695 (850 vs 840 MHz).
  • Kirin 970 Support 75.29% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 695 (29.8 vs 17 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 695 664
Kirin 970 390

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 695 1869
Kirin 970 1361

Image compression

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Snapdragon 695 111.3
Kirin 970 76.9

Face detection

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Snapdragon 695 16.9
Kirin 970 14

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 695 28.8
Kirin 970 24.5

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 695 26.7
Kirin 970 21.8

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 695 15.9
Kirin 970 11.4

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 695 2.25
Kirin 970 1.46

SQLite

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Snapdragon 695 579.5
Kirin 970 417.7

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 7 FPS
Stability 80%

Graphics test 6 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120 Hz 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 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

58%
Turbo Clock Speed

2200 MHz

62%
Turbo Clock Speed

2360 MHz

77%
Base Frequency

1700 MHz

84%
Base Frequency

1840 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 660 Gold (Cortex-A77)
    6x 1.7 GHz – Kryo 660 Silver (Cortex-A55)
    4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A73
    4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8-A
  • L1 cache - -
  • L2 cache - 0.5 MB
  • L3 cache - 2 MB
  • Process 6 nm 10 nm
  • Transistor count - 5.5 Billion
  • TDP 6 W 9 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 619 Mali G72 MP12
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Bifrost
  • GPU frequency 840 MHz 850 MHz
  • Execution units - 12
  • Shading units 128 192
  • FLOPS 536 Gigaflops 347 Gigaflops
  • Vulkan version 1.1 1.0
  • OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
  • DirectX version 12 12
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2133 MHz 1866 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 17 Gbit/s 29.8 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 8 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 2x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

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 108MP, 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 AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV 32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem Snapdragon X51 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes No
  • Wi-Fi 6 5
  • Bluetooth 5.2 4.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 695

CPU
23%
GPU
17%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
79%

Hisilicon Kirin 970

CPU
15%
GPU
12%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
64%
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