Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Vs Kirin 970
We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 8 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.
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 8 Gen 1
- Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 has 27.12% higher CPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (3000 vs 2360 MHz).
- Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 has 71.49% higher memory frequency than Kirin 970 (3200 vs 1866 MHz).
- Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 has 60% smaller sized transistor than Kirin 970 (4 vs 10 nm).
- Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 has 252.65% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 970 (1,037 K vs 294 K).
- Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 970.
- Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Support 71.81% higher memory bandwidth than Kirin 970 (51.2 vs 29.8 MHz).
- Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Support 113.33% higher memory bandwidth than Kirin 970 (2560 vs 1200 MHz).
Pros of Hisilicon Kirin 970
- Kirin 970 has 6.25% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 (850 vs 800 MHz).
Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarksAnTuTu 9
| CPU | 249768 | 77046 |
| GPU | 448381 | 90560 |
| Memory | 172528 | 66398 |
| UX | 166045 | 59977 |
| Total score | 1036722 | 293981 |
GeekBench 5
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
| Image compression | 180.6 Mpixels/s | 76.9 Mpixels/s |
| Face detection | 25.25 images/s | 14 images/s |
| Speech recognition | 54.7 words/s | 24.5 words/s |
| Machine learning | 56.95 images/s | 21.8 images/s |
| Camera shooting | 28 images/s | 11.4 images/s |
| HTML 5 | 3 Mnodes/s | 1.46 Mnodes/s |
| SQLite | 989.1 Mnodes/s | 417.7 Mnodes/s |
3DMark
70%
SD 8 Gen 18%
Kirin 970Score: 9041
| Stability | 88% | 80% |
| Graphics test | 54 FPS | 6 FPS |
| Score | 9041 | 1050 |
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 and Hisilicon Kirin 970Display
| Max On-Device Display | 4K @ 60 Hz,QHD+ @ 144 Hz | 4K @ 60 Hz |
| Max On-Display Resolution | 3840 x 2160 | 3840 x 2160 |
| Max External Display | 4K @ 60 Hz | - |
| HDR | HDR10+, HDR10 | HDR, HDR-10 |
| Color Depth | Up to 10-bit | - |
| Color Gamut | Rec2020 | - |
CPU
79%
SD 8 Gen 162%
Kirin 970
Processor Speed (Frequency)
| Architecture |
1x 3 GHz Cortex-X2 3x 2.5 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 | 3000 MHz | 2360 MHz |
| Instruction set | ARMv9-A | ARMv8-A |
| L1 cache | - | - |
| L2 cache | 1 MB | 0.5 MB |
| L3 cache | 4 MB | 2 MB |
| Process | 4 nm | 10 nm |
| Transistor count | - | 5.5 Billion |
| TDP | - | 9 W |
Graphics
| GPU name | Adreno 730 | Mali G72 MP12 |
| Architecture | Adreno 700 | Bifrost |
| GPU frequency | 800 MHz | 850 MHz |
| Execution units | 3 | 12 |
| Shading units | 768 | 192 |
| FLOPS | - | 347 Gigaflops |
| Vulkan version | 1.1 | 1.0 |
| OpenCL version | 2 | 2.0 |
| DirectX version | 12 | 12 |
Memory
| Memory type | LPDDR5 | LPDDR4X |
| Memory frequency | 3200 MHz | 1866 MHz |
| Bus | 4x16 Bit | 4x 16 Bit |
| Max bandwidth | 51.2 Gbit/s | 29.8 Gbit/s |
| Max size | 24 GB | 8 GB |
Multimedia (ISP)
| Neural processor (NPU) | Hexagon | Dedicated NPU |
| Storage type | UFS 3.1 | UFS 2.1 |
| Max display resolution | 3840 x 2160 | 3840 x 2160 |
| Max camera resolution | 1x 200MP, 2x 64MP | 1x 48MP, 2x 20MP |
| Video capture | 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS | 4K at 30FPS |
| Video playback | 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS | 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 |
Connectivity
Download Speed
4G (MB/s)
5G (MB/s)
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
5G (MB/s)
| Modem | Snapdragon X65 | - |
| 4G support | LTE Cat. 24 | LTE Cat. 18 |
| 5G support | Yes | No |
| Peak Download speed | Up to 10240 Mbps | - |
| Peak Upload speed | Up to 3072 Mbps | - |
| Wi-Fi | 6 | 5 |
| Bluetooth | 5.2 | 4.2 |
| Navigation | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo |
Info
| Announced Date | December 2021 | September 2017 |
| Class | Flagship | Flagship |
| Model number | SM8450 | Hi3670 |
| Official page | Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 official site | Kirin 970 official site |
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
54.5
Review By TenzysTech
Hisilicon Kirin 970
22.75
Review By TenzysTech
