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Home > Smartphone processors comparison > Snapdragon 888 vs Kirin 970 – specs and benchmarks

Snapdragon 888 Vs Kirin 970

Snapdragon 888
VS
Kirin 970
Snapdragon 888
Kirin 970
We have created a comprehensive comparison of the recently released Snapdragon 888 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 888
73
Kirin 970
26
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Snapdragon 888
63
Kirin 970
44
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Snapdragon 888
82
Kirin 970
64
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
Snapdragon 888
73
Kirin 970
45

Key Differences

Pros of Qualcomm Snapdragon 888
  • Snapdragon 888 has 20.34% higher CPU clock speed than Kirin 970 (2840 vs 2360 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 has 71.49% higher memory frequency than Kirin 970 (3200 vs 1866 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 has 50% smaller sized transistor than Kirin 970 (5 vs 10 nm).
  • Snapdragon 888 has 175.02% better AnTuTu 9 score than Kirin 970 (808 K vs 294 K).
  • Snapdragon 888 has latest instruction set, hence better than Kirin 970.
  • Snapdragon 888 Support 71.81% higher memory bandwidth then Kirin 970 (51.2 vs 29.8 MHz).
  • Snapdragon 888 Support 108.33% higher memory bandwidth then Kirin 970 (2500 vs 1200 MHz).
Pros of Hisilicon Kirin 970
  • Kirin 970 has 1.19% higher GPU clock speed than Snapdragon 888 (850 vs 840 MHz).

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks
SoC:
Snapdragon 888
vs
Kirin 970

AnTuTu 9

Snapdragon 888 +174%
808495
Kirin 970
293981
CPU 211734 77046
GPU 306250 90560
Memory 133870 66398
UX 156641 59977
Total score 808495 293981

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score
Snapdragon 888 +189%
1126
Kirin 970
390
Multi-Core Score
Snapdragon 888 +170%
3681
Kirin 970
1361
Image compression 177.1 Mpixels/s 76.9 Mpixels/s
Face detection 26.5 images/s 14 images/s
Speech recognition 67.7 words/s 24.5 words/s
Machine learning 59.9 images/s 21.8 images/s
Camera shooting 37.5 images/s 11.4 images/s
HTML 5 3.96 Mnodes/s 1.46 Mnodes/s
SQLite 1060 Mnodes/s 417.7 Mnodes/s

3DMark

40%
SD 888
8%
Kirin 970
Score: 5126

Stability 91% 80%
Graphics test 30 FPS 6 FPS
Score 5126 1050

Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 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 Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG), HDR10+, Dolby Vision®, HDR10 HDR, HDR-10
Color Depth Up to 10-bit -
Color Gamut Rec. 2020 -

  CPU

82%
SD 888
68%
Kirin 970
Frequency

Architecture 1x 2.84 GHz – Kryo 680 Prime (Cortex-X1)
3x 2.42 GHz – Kryo 680 Gold (Cortex-A78)
4x 1.8 GHz – Kryo 680 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 2840 MHz 2360 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8.4-A ARMv8-A
L1 cache 512 KB -
L2 cache 1 MB 0.5 MB
L3 cache 4 MB 2 MB
Process 5 10
Transistor count - 5.5 Billion
TDP 10 W 9 W

Graphics

GPU name Adreno 660 Mali G72 MP12
Architecture Adreno 600 Bifrost
GPU frequency 840 MHz 850 MHz
Execution units 2 12
Shading units 512 192
FLOPS 1720 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 3200 MHz 1866 MHz
Bus 4x 16 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 780 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 120FPS 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 888
2500
Kirin 970
1200
5G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 888
N/A
Kirin 970
N/A
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 888
316
Kirin 970
150
5G (MB/s)
Snapdragon 888
3000
Kirin 970
N/A
Modem X60 -
4G support LTE Cat. 22 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 December 2020 September 2017
Class Flagship Flagship
Model number SM8350 Hi3670
Official page Snapdragon 888 official site Kirin 970 official site
Qualcomm Snapdragon 888
Qualcomm Snapdragon 888
CPU
65%
GPU
63%
Memory
38%
Energy efficiency and battery life
82%

64


Review By TenzysTech
Hisilicon Kirin 970
Hisilicon Kirin 970
CPU
26%
GPU
44%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
64%

33.5


Review By TenzysTech

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