Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 Vs 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.

• 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).

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