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

Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 Vs Kirin 970

Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1
VS
Kirin 970
Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1
Kirin 970
We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 8 Plus 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 Plus Gen 1
84
Kirin 970
26
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1
84
Kirin 970
50
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1
86
Kirin 970
64
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1
85
Kirin 970
47

Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1
  • Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 has 35.59% higher CPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (3200 vs 2360 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 has 5.88% higher GPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (900 vs 850 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 has 71.49% higher memory frequency than Kirin 970 (3200 vs 1866 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 has 60% smaller sized transistor than Kirin 970 (4 vs 10 nm).
  • Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 has 273.46% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 970 (1,098 K vs 294 K).
  • Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 970.
  • Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 Support 71.81% higher memory bandwidth then Kirin 970 (51.2 vs 29.8 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 Support 108.33% higher memory bandwidth then Kirin 970 (2500 vs 1200 MHz).

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks
SoC:
Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1
vs
Kirin 970

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 +270%
1097914
Kirin 970
293981
CPU 243697 77046
GPU 478120 90560
Memory 191931 66398
UX 184166 59977
Total score 1097914 293981

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score
Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 +236%
1311
Kirin 970
390
Multi-Core Score
Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 +202%
4117
Kirin 970
1361
Image compression - 76.9 Mpixels/s
Face detection - 14 images/s
Speech recognition - 24.5 words/s
Machine learning - 21.8 images/s
Camera shooting - 11.4 images/s
HTML 5 - 1.46 Mnodes/s
SQLite - 417.7 Mnodes/s

3DMark

76%
SD 8 Plus Gen 1
8%
Kirin 970
Score: 9875

Stability 69% 80%
Graphics test 59 FPS 6 FPS
Score 9875 1050

Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus 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+ HDR, HDR-10
Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
Color Gamut Rec2021 -

  CPU

92%
SD 8 Plus Gen 1
68%
Kirin 970
Frequency

Architecture 1x 3.2 GHz – Cortex-X2
3x 2.75 GHz – Cortex-A710
4x 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 - 0.5 MB
L3 cache 6 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 900 MHz 850 MHz
Execution units - 12
Shading units - 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 Plus Gen 1
2500
Kirin 970
1200
5G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1
N/A
Kirin 970
N/A
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1
316
Kirin 970
150
5G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1
N/A
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 - -
Wi-Fi 6 5
Bluetooth 5.3 4.2
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Announced Date May 2022 September 2017
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number - Hi3670
Official page Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 official site Kirin 970 official site
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1
CPU
65%
GPU
84%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
86%

73


Review By TenzysTech
Hisilicon Kirin 970
Hisilicon Kirin 970
CPU
26%
GPU
50%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
64%

35


Review By TenzysTech

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