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Hisilicon Kirin 970
Overview - Snapdragon 782G Vs Kirin 970

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 782G 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 782G 37
Kirin 970 15
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 782G 31
Kirin 970 12
Battery Life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 782G 79
Kirin 970 64
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 782G 49
Kirin 970 30
Benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 782G

  • Snapdragon 782G has 14.41% higher CPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (2700 vs 2360 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 782G has 71.49% higher memory frequency than Kirin 970 (3200 vs 1866 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 782G has 40% smaller sized transistor than Kirin 970 (6 vs 10 nm).
  • Snapdragon 782G has 109.46% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 970 (616 K vs 294 K).
  • Snapdragon 782G has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 970.

Pros of Hisilicon Kirin 970

  • Kirin 970 has 54.55% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 782G (850 vs 550 MHz).
  • Kirin 970 Support 75.29% higher memory bandwidth than Snapdragon 782G (29.8 vs 17 GB/s).
Benchmarks

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score

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Snapdragon 782G 956
Kirin 970 390

Multi-Core Score

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Snapdragon 782G 3478
Kirin 970 1361

Image compression

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Snapdragon 782G
Kirin 970 76.9

Face detection

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Snapdragon 782G
Kirin 970 14

Speech recognition

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Snapdragon 782G
Kirin 970 24.5

Machine learning

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Snapdragon 782G
Kirin 970 21.8

Camera shooting

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Snapdragon 782G
Kirin 970 11.4

HTML 5

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Snapdragon 782G
Kirin 970 1.46

SQLite

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Snapdragon 782G
Kirin 970 417.7

3DMark

Stability %

Graphics test -
Stability 80%

Graphics test 6 FPS
Full list of technical specifications

Display

  • Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 144 Hz 4K @ 60 Hz
  • Max On-Display Resolution 4K @ 60 Hz 3840 x 2160
  • Max External Display 4K @ 60 Hz -
  • HDR HDR10+, HDR10, HLG HDR, HDR-10
  • Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
  • Color Gamut Rec. 2020 -
Full list of technical specifications

CPU

71%
Turbo Clock Speed

2700 MHz

62%
Turbo Clock Speed

2360 MHz

86%
Base Frequency

1900 MHz

84%
Base Frequency

1840 MHz

  • Architecture 1x 2.7 GHz – Kryo 670 Prime core (Cortex-A78)
    3x 2.2 GHz – Kryo 670 Gold (also Cortex-A78)
    4x 1.9 GHz – Kryo 670 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 512 KB -
  • L2 cache 1 MB 0.5 MB
  • L3 cache 2 MB 2 MB
  • Process 6 nm 10 nm
  • Transistor count 4.68 Billion 5.5 Billion
  • TDP 5 W 9 W
Full list of technical specifications

Graphics

  • GPU name Adreno 642L Mali G72 MP12
  • Architecture Adreno 600 Bifrost
  • GPU frequency 550 MHz 850 MHz
  • Execution units - 12
  • Shading units 512 192
  • FLOPS 906.58 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

Memory frequency

3200 MHz
memory-frequency

Memory frequency

1866 MHz
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

17 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

29.8 Gbit/s
memory-frequency

Max Size

16 GB
memory-frequency

Max Size

8 GB

  • Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
  • Bus 2x16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Full list of technical specifications

Multimedia (ISP)

  • Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 770 Dedicated NPU
  • Storage type UFS 3.1 UFS 2.1
  • Max display resolution 2520 x 1080 3840 x 2160
  • Max camera resolution 1x200 MP, 2x64 MP 1x 48MP, 2x 20MP
  • Video capture 4K at 30 FPS 4K at 30FPS
  • Video playback 4K at 60 FPS 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

4G Speed
  • N/A
    Download Speed
  • N/A
    Upload Speed
  • 1200 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 150 Mbps
    Upload Speed
5G Speed
  • 3700 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 1600 Mbps
    Upload Speed
  • -
    Download Speed
  • -
    Upload Speed

  • Modem X53 -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support Yes No
  • Wi-Fi 6/6E 5
  • Bluetooth 5.2 4.2
  • Navigation GLONASS, NavIC, Beidou, GPS, QZSS, Galileo GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Full list of technical specifications

Info

Review

Review By TenzysTech

Qualcomm Snapdragon 782G

CPU
37%
GPU
31%
Memory
38%
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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