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Home > Smartphone processors comparison > Snapdragon 870 vs Kirin 970 – specs and benchmarks

Snapdragon 870 Vs Kirin 970

Snapdragon 870
VS
Kirin 970
Snapdragon 870
Kirin 970
We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 870 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 870
67
Kirin 970
26
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 870
57
Kirin 970
41
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 870
75
Kirin 970
64
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 870
66
Kirin 970
44

Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 870
  • Snapdragon 870 has 35.59% higher CPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (3200 vs 2360 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 870 has 47.37% higher memory frequency than Kirin 970 (2750 vs 1866 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 870 has 30% smaller sized transistor than Kirin 970 (7 vs 10 nm).
  • Snapdragon 870 has 119.10% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 970 (644 K vs 294 K).
  • Snapdragon 870 has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 970.
  • Snapdragon 870 Support 47.65% higher memory bandwidth then Kirin 970 (44 vs 29.8 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 870 Support 108.33% higher memory bandwidth then Kirin 970 (2500 vs 1200 MHz).
Pros of Hisilicon Kirin 970
  • Kirin 970 has 31.78% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 870 (850 vs 645 MHz).

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks
SoC:
Snapdragon 870
vs
Kirin 970

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 870 +117%
644114
Kirin 970
293981
CPU 179347 77046
GPU 270188 90560
Memory 98761 66398
UX 95818 59977
Total score 644114 293981

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score
Snapdragon 870 +166%
1038
Kirin 970
390
Multi-Core Score
Snapdragon 870 +162%
3569
Kirin 970
1361
Image compression 180.6 Mpixels/s 76.9 Mpixels/s
Face detection 25.25 images/s 14 images/s
Speech recognition 54.7 words/s 24.5 words/s
Machine learning 56.95 images/s 21.8 images/s
Camera shooting 28 images/s 11.4 images/s
HTML 5 - 1.46 Mnodes/s
SQLite 989.1 Mnodes/s 417.7 Mnodes/s

3DMark

33%
SD 870
8%
Kirin 970
Score: 4258

Stability 90% 80%
Graphics test 25 FPS 6 FPS
Score 4258 1050

Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 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+, HDR10 HDR, HDR-10
Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
Color Gamut Rec2020 -

  CPU

92%
SD 870
68%
Kirin 970
Frequency

Architecture 1x 3.2 GHz – Kryo 585 Prime (Cortex-A77)
3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 585 Gold (Cortex-A77)
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 585 Silver (Cortex-A55)
4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A73
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53
Cores 8 8
Base Frequency 1800 MHz 1840 MHz
Turbo Frequency 3200 MHz 2360 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8.2-A ARMv8-A
L1 cache 512 KB -
L2 cache 1 MB 0.5 MB
L3 cache 4 MB 2 MB
Process 7 10
Transistor count - 5.5 Billion
TDP 10 W 9 W

Graphics

GPU name Adreno 650 Mali G72 MP12
Architecture Adreno 600 Bifrost
GPU frequency 645 MHz 850 MHz
Execution units 2 12
Shading units 512 192
FLOPS 1,267 Gigaflops 347 Gigaflops
Vulkan version 1.1 1.0
OpenCL version 2.0 2.0
DirectX version 12 12

Memory

Memory type LPDDR5 LPDDR4X
Memory frequency 2750 MHz 1866 MHz
Bus 4x 16 Bit 4x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth 44 Gbit/s 29.8 Gbit/s
Max size 16 GB 8 GB

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU) Hexagon 698 Dedicated NPU
Storage type UFS 3.0, UFS 3.1 UFS 2.1
Max display resolution 3840 x 2160 3840 x 2160
Max camera resolution 1x 200MP, 2x 25MP 1x 48MP, 2x 20MP
Video capture 8K at 30FPS, 4K at 60FPS 4K at 30FPS
Video playback 8K at 30FPS 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 870
2500
Kirin 970
1200
5G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 870
N/A
Kirin 970
N/A
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 870
316
Kirin 970
150
5G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 870
3000
Kirin 970
N/A
Modem X55 -
4G support LTE Cat. 24 LTE Cat. 18
5G support Yes No
Peak Download speed Up to 7500 Mbps -
Peak Upload speed Up to 3000 Mbps -
Wi-Fi 6 5
Bluetooth 5.2 4.2
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS, SBAS, NAVIC GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Announced Date January 2021 September 2017
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number SM8250-ACSM8250-AC Hi3670
Official page Snapdragon 870 official site Kirin 970 official site
Qualcomm Snapdragon 870
Qualcomm Snapdragon 870
CPU
65%
GPU
57%
Memory
32%
Energy efficiency and battery life
75%

57.75


Review By TenzysTech
Hisilicon Kirin 970
Hisilicon Kirin 970
CPU
26%
GPU
41%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
64%

32.75


Review By TenzysTech

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