Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Vs Kirin 970

We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 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.

• Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has 35.59% higher CPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (3200 vs 2360 MHz).

• Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has 15.29% higher GPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (980 vs 850 MHz).

• Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has 125.08% higher memory frequency than Kirin 970 (4200 vs 1866 MHz).

• Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has 60% smaller sized transistor than Kirin 970 (4 vs 10 nm).

• Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has 334.30% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 970 (1,277 K vs 294 K).

• Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 970.

• Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Support 108.33% higher memory bandwidth then Kirin 970 (2500 vs 1200 MHz).

Modem	Snapdragon X70	-
4G support	LTE Cat. 24	LTE Cat. 18
5G support	Yes	No
Peak Download speed	Up to 10000 Mbps	-
Peak Upload speed	Up to 3500 Mbps	-
Wi-Fi	7	5
Bluetooth	5.3	4.2
Navigation	GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, NAVIC	GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo