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Home > Smartphone processors comparison > Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 vs Kirin 970 – specs and benchmarks

Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Vs Kirin 970

Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
VS
Kirin 970
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
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.
  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 2
98
Kirin 970
26
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
99
Kirin 970
57
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
86
Kirin 970
64
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
94
Kirin 970
49

Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
  • 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).

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks
SoC:
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
vs
Kirin 970

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 +330%
1276749
Kirin 970
293981
CPU 270867 77046
GPU 567801 90560
Memory 239879 66398
UX 198202 59977
Total score 1276749 293981

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 +282%
1490
Kirin 970
390
Multi-Core Score
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 +282%
5198
Kirin 970
1361
Image compression 251.3 Mpixels/s 76.9 Mpixels/s
Face detection 46.2 images/s 14 images/s
Speech recognition 122.9 words/s 24.5 words/s
Machine learning 114.1 images/s 21.8 images/s
Camera shooting 51.7 images/s 11.4 images/s
HTML 5 5.81 Mnodes/s 1.46 Mnodes/s
SQLite 1510 Mnodes/s 417.7 Mnodes/s

3DMark

100%
SD 8 Gen 2
8%
Kirin 970
Score: 12967

Stability - 80%
Graphics test 81 FPS 6 FPS
Score 12967 1050

Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 and Hisilicon Kirin 970

Display

Max On-Device Display 4K Ultra HD @ 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 HDR Vivid, HDR10+, HDR10 HDR, HDR-10
Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
Color Gamut Rec. 2020 -

  CPU

92%
SD 8 Gen 2
68%
Kirin 970
Frequency

Architecture 1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X3 4x 2.8 GHz – Cortex-A715 3x 2 GHz – Cortex-A510
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A73
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53
Cores 8 8
Base Frequency 2000 MHz 1840 MHz
Turbo Frequency 3200 MHz 2360 MHz
Instruction set ARMv9-A ARMv8-A
L1 cache - -
L2 cache 1 MB 0.5 MB
L3 cache 8 MB 2 MB
Process 4 10
Transistor count - 5.5 Billion
TDP 10 W 9 W

Graphics

GPU name Adreno 740 Mali G72 MP12
Architecture Adreno 700 Bifrost
GPU frequency 980 MHz 850 MHz
Execution units - 12
Shading units - 192
FLOPS - 347 Gigaflops
Vulkan version 1.3 1.0
OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
DirectX version 12 12

Memory

Memory type LPDDR5x LPDDR4X
Memory frequency 4200 MHz 1866 MHz
Bus 4 x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth - 29.8 Gbit/s
Max size 24 GB 8 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU) Yes Dedicated NPU
Storage type UFS 3.1, UFS 4.0 UFS 2.1
Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 3840 x 2160
Max camera resolution 1 x 200 MP 1x 48MP, 2x 20MP
Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 30FPS
Video playback 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs H.264, H.265, AV1, 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 2
2500
Kirin 970
1200
5G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
N/A
Kirin 970
N/A
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
316
Kirin 970
150
5G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
3500
Kirin 970
N/A
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

Info

Announced Date November 2022 September 2017
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number SM8550-AB Hi3670
Official page Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 official site Kirin 970 official site
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
CPU
65%
GPU
99%
Memory
49%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

83


Review By TenzysTech
Hisilicon Kirin 970
Hisilicon Kirin 970
CPU
26%
GPU
57%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
64%

36.75


Review By TenzysTech

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