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Home > Smartphone processors comparison > Snapdragon 860 vs Kirin 970 – specs and benchmarks

Snapdragon 860 Vs Kirin 970

Snapdragon 860
VS
Kirin 970
Snapdragon 860
Kirin 970
We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 860 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 860
50
Kirin 970
26
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 860
41
Kirin 970
33
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 860
75
Kirin 970
64
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 860
55
Kirin 970
41

Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 860
  • Snapdragon 860 has 25.42% higher CPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (2960 vs 2360 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 860 has 14.31% higher memory frequency than Kirin 970 (2133 vs 1866 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 860 has 30% smaller sized transistor than Kirin 970 (7 vs 10 nm).
  • Snapdragon 860 has 57.82% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 970 (464 K vs 294 K).
  • Snapdragon 860 has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 970.
  • Snapdragon 860 Support 14.53% higher memory bandwidth then Kirin 970 (34.13 vs 29.8 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 860 Support 66.67% higher memory bandwidth then Kirin 970 (2000 vs 1200 MHz).
Pros of Hisilicon Kirin 970
  • Kirin 970 has 25.93% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 860 (850 vs 675 MHz).

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks
SoC:
Snapdragon 860
vs
Kirin 970

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 860 +57%
463958
Kirin 970
293981
CPU 143028 77046
GPU 179320 90560
Memory 69420 66398
UX 72190 59977
Total score 463958 293981

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score
Snapdragon 860 +91%
744
Kirin 970
390
Multi-Core Score
Snapdragon 860 +92%
2616
Kirin 970
1361
Image compression 142.85 Mpixels/s 76.9 Mpixels/s
Face detection 20.3 images/s 14 images/s
Speech recognition 44.55 words/s 24.5 words/s
Machine learning 46.35 images/s 21.8 images/s
Camera shooting 22.85 images/s 11.4 images/s
HTML 5 1.65 Mnodes/s 1.46 Mnodes/s
SQLite 777.9 Mnodes/s 417.7 Mnodes/s

3DMark

27%
SD 860
8%
Kirin 970
Score: 3455

Stability 98% 80%
Graphics test 20 FPS 6 FPS
Score 3455 1050

Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Qualcomm Snapdragon 860 and Hisilicon Kirin 970

Display

Max On-Device Display FHD+ @ 120 Hz 4K @ 60 Hz
Max On-Display Resolution QHD @ 60Hz 3840 x 2160
Max External Display - -
HDR HDR10+ HDR, HDR-10
Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
Color Gamut Rec2020 -

  CPU

86%
SD 860
68%
Kirin 970
Frequency

Architecture 1x 2.96 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
3x 2.42 GHz – Cortex-A76 (Kryo 485 Gold)
4x 1.8 GHz – Cortex-A55 (Kryo 485 Silver)
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A73
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53
Cores 8 8
Base Frequency 1800 MHz 1840 MHz
Turbo Frequency 2960 MHz 2360 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8.1-A ARMv8-A
L1 cache - -
L2 cache - 0.5 MB
L3 cache 2 MB 2 MB
Process 7 10
Transistor count - 5.5 Billion
TDP 10 W 9 W

Graphics

GPU name Adreno 640 Mali G72 MP12
Architecture Adreno 600 Bifrost
GPU frequency 675 MHz 850 MHz
Execution units 2 12
Shading units 384 192
FLOPS 1037 Gigaflops 347 Gigaflops
Vulkan version 1.1 1.0
OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
DirectX version 12 12

Memory

Memory type LPDDR4X LPDDR4X
Memory frequency 2133 MHz 1866 MHz
Bus 4 x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 34.13 Gbit/s 29.8 Gbit/s
Max size 16 GB 8 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 690 Dedicated NPU
Storage type EMMC 5.1, UFS 2.0, UFS 2.1, UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 UFS 2.1
Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 3840 x 2160
Max camera resolution 1x 192MP, 2x 22MP 1x 48MP, 2x 20MP
Video capture 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 AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV 32 [email protected] kHz, HD-audio

Connectivity

Download Speed
4G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 860
2000
Kirin 970
1200
5G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 860
N/A
Kirin 970
N/A
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 860
316
Kirin 970
150
5G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 860
1200
Kirin 970
N/A
Modem X24 LTE, X50 5G -
4G support LTE Cat. 20 LTE Cat. 18
5G support Yes No
Peak Download speed Up to 5000 Mbps -
Peak Upload speed Up to 1200 Mbps -
Wi-Fi 6 5
Bluetooth 5.0 4.2
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Announced Date April 2019 September 2017
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number SM8150-AC Hi3670
Official page Snapdragon 860 official site Kirin 970 official site
Qualcomm Snapdragon 860
Qualcomm Snapdragon 860
CPU
65%
GPU
41%
Memory
25%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%

47.75


Review By TenzysTech
Hisilicon Kirin 970
Hisilicon Kirin 970
CPU
26%
GPU
33%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
64%

30.75


Review By TenzysTech

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