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Home > Smartphone processors comparison > Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 vs Kirin 970 – specs and benchmarks

Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 Vs Kirin 970

Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
VS
Kirin 970
Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
Kirin 970
We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 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 7 Gen 1
58
Kirin 970
26
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
43
Kirin 970
37
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
86
Kirin 970
64
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
62
Kirin 970
42

Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
  • Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 has 1.69% higher CPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (2400 vs 2360 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 has 71.49% higher memory frequency than Kirin 970 (3200 vs 1866 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 has 60% smaller sized transistor than Kirin 970 (4 vs 10 nm).
  • Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 has 90.98% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 970 (561 K vs 294 K).
  • Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 970.
Pros of Hisilicon Kirin 970
  • Kirin 970 has 41.67% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 (850 vs 600 MHz).
  • Kirin 970 Support 16.41% higher memory bandwidth then Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 (29.8 vs 25.6 GB/s).

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks
SoC:
Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
vs
Kirin 970

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 +91%
561441
Kirin 970
293981
CPU 177123 77046
GPU 162367 90560
Memory 101455 66398
UX 120496 59977
Total score 561441 293981

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score
Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 +108%
812
Kirin 970
390
Multi-Core Score
Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 +126%
3081
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

0%
SD 7 Gen 1
8%
Kirin 970
Score: 1050

Stability - 80%
Graphics test - 6 FPS
Score - 1050

Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 and Hisilicon Kirin 970

Display

Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 144 Hz 4K @ 60 Hz
Max On-Display Resolution 3360 x 1600 3840 x 2160
Max External Display QHD @ 60 Hz -
HDR HDR10+, HDR10 HDR, HDR-10
Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
Color Gamut Rec. 2020 -

  CPU

69%
SD 7 Gen 1
68%
Kirin 970
Frequency

Architecture 1x 2.4 GHz – Cortex-A710
3x 2.36 GHz – Cortex-A710
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A510
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 ARMv9-A ARMv8-A
L1 cache - -
L2 cache 3 MB 0.5 MB
L3 cache - 2 MB
Process 4 10
Transistor count - 5.5 Billion
TDP 5 W 9 W

Graphics

GPU name Adreno 662 Mali G72 MP12
Architecture Adreno 600 Bifrost
GPU frequency 600 MHz 850 MHz
Execution units - 12
Shading units 384 192
FLOPS - 347 Gigaflops
Vulkan version 1.1 1.0
OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
DirectX version 12 12

Memory

Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
Memory frequency 3200 MHz 1866 MHz
Bus 2x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 25.6 Gbit/s 29.8 Gbit/s
Max size 16 GB 8 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU) Yes Dedicated NPU
Storage type UFS 3.1 UFS 2.1
Max display resolution 3360 x 1600 3840 x 2160
Max camera resolution 1x 200MP 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, 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 7 Gen 1
1200
Kirin 970
1200
5G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
N/A
Kirin 970
N/A
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
210
Kirin 970
150
5G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
N/A
Kirin 970
N/A
Modem X62 -
4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
5G support Yes No
Peak Download speed Up to 4400 Mbps -
Peak Upload speed - -
Wi-Fi 6 5
Bluetooth 5.2 4.2
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Announced Date May 2022 September 2017
Class Mid range Flagship
Model number SM7450-AB Hi3670
Official page Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 official site Kirin 970 official site
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1
CPU
65%
GPU
43%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

56.25


Review By TenzysTech
Hisilicon Kirin 970
Hisilicon Kirin 970
CPU
26%
GPU
37%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
64%

31.75


Review By TenzysTech

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