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Home > Smartphone processors comparison > Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 vs Kirin 970 – specs and benchmarks

Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Vs Kirin 970

Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
VS
Kirin 970
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
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.
  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Benchmarks
  4. AnTuTu v9
  5. GeekBench 5
  6. Specs

Review

CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
79
Kirin 970
26
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
79
Kirin 970
47
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
86
Kirin 970
64
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
81
Kirin 970
46

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 then Kirin 970 (51.2 vs 29.8 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Support 113.33% higher memory bandwidth then 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 benchmarks
SoC:
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
vs
Kirin 970

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 +248%
1036722
Kirin 970
293981
CPU 249768 77046
GPU 448381 90560
Memory 172528 66398
UX 166045 59977
Total score 1036722 293981

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 +213%
1221
Kirin 970
390
Multi-Core Score
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 +164%
3589
Kirin 970
1361
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 1
8%
Kirin 970
Score: 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 970

Display

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

87%
SD 8 Gen 1
68%
Kirin 970
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 10
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 [email protected] kHz, HD-audio

Connectivity

Download Speed
4G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
2560
Kirin 970
1200
5G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
N/A
Kirin 970
N/A
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
316
Kirin 970
150
5G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
3072
Kirin 970
N/A
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
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
CPU
65%
GPU
79%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

70.5


Review By TenzysTech
Hisilicon Kirin 970
Hisilicon Kirin 970
CPU
26%
GPU
47%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
64%

34.25


Review By TenzysTech

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