Snapdragon 888 Vs 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.
Review
CPU Performance
Single and multi-core processor tests
Gaming Performance
GPU performance in games and OpenCL/Vulcan
Battery life
Efficiency of battery consumption
Tenzys Tech Score
Overall chip score
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 than Kirin 970 (51.2 vs 29.8 MHz).
- Snapdragon 888 Support 108.33% higher memory bandwidth than 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 benchmarksAnTuTu 9
CPU | 211734 | 77046 |
GPU | 306250 | 90560 |
Memory | 133870 | 66398 |
UX | 156641 | 59977 |
Total score | 808495 | 293981 |
GeekBench 5
Single-Core Score
Multi-Core Score
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 8888%
Kirin 970Score: 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 970Display
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
75%
SD 88862%
Kirin 970
Processor Speed (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 nm | 10 nm |
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 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio |
Connectivity
Download Speed
4G (MB/s)
5G (MB/s)
Upload Speed
4G (MB/s)
5G (MB/s)
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 |