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Hisilicon Kirin 970
Overview - Snapdragon 750G Vs Kirin 970

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 750G 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 750G 23
Kirin 970 15
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 750G 16
Kirin 970 12
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 750G 71
Kirin 970 64
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 750G 37
Kirin 970 30
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 750G Kirin 970
CPU 115426 77046
GPU 77754 90560
Memory 66679 66398
UX 69173 59977
Total score 329032 293981
Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 750G

  • Snapdragon 750G has 14.31% higher memory frequency than Kirin 970 (2133 vs 1866 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 750G has 20% smaller sized transistor than Kirin 970 (8 vs 10 nm).
  • Snapdragon 750G has 11.92% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 970 (329 K vs 294 K).
  • Snapdragon 750G 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 750G (2360 vs 2200 MHz).
  • Kirin 970 has 3.03% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 750G (850 vs 825 MHz).
  • Kirin 970 Support 75.29% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 750G (29.8 vs 17 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 750G 629
Kirin 970 390

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 750G 1988
Kirin 970 1361

Image compression

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Snapdragon 750G 120.9
Kirin 970 76.9

Face detection

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Snapdragon 750G 18.2
Kirin 970 14

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 750G 30.3
Kirin 970 24.5

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 750G 26.5
Kirin 970 21.8

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 750G 18.7
Kirin 970 11.4

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 750G 2.34
Kirin 970 1.46

SQLite

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Snapdragon 750G 614.1
Kirin 970 417.7

3DMark

Stability 99%

Graphics test 3 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 QHD @ 60Hz -
  • 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

82%
Base Frequency

1800 MHz

84%
Base Frequency

1840 MHz

  • Architecture 2x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 570 Gold (Cortex-A77)
    6x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 570 Silver (Cortex-A55)
    4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A73
    4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53
  • Cores 8 8
  • Instruction set ARMv8.3-A ARMv8-A
  • L1 cache 64 KB -
  • L2 cache 512 MB 0.5 MB
  • L3 cache 4 MB 2 MB
  • Process 8 nm 10 nm
  • Transistor count - 5.5 Billion
  • TDP 5 W 9 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 619 Mali G72 MP12
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Bifrost
  • GPU frequency 825 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
Full list of technical specifications

Memory

  • Memory frequency 2133 MHz 1866 MHz
  • Max bandwidth 17 Gbit/s 29.8 Gbit/s
  • Max Size 12 GB 8 GB
  • Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
  • Bus 2 x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 694 Dedicated NPU
  • Storage type UFS 2.1, UFS 2.2, UFS 3.0 UFS 2.1
  • Max display resolution 2220 x 1080 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 20MP 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 AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV 32 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio
Full list of technical specifications

Connectivity

  • Modem X52 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes No
  • Wi-Fi 6 5
  • Bluetooth 5.1 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 750G

CPU
23%
GPU
16%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
71%

Hisilicon Kirin 970

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