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Hisilicon Kirin 970

Hisilicon Kirin 970

Hisilicon Kirin 970 is an 8-core processor introduced on September 17, 2017 and built on a 10-nanometer fabrication technique. It has 4 Cortex-A73 cores clocked at 2360 MHz and 4 Cortex-A53 cores clocked at 1840 MHz integrated with Mali G72 MP12 Graphical Processing Unit (GPU) clocked at 850 MHz.

  1. Review
  2. Benchmarks
  3. AnTuTu v9
  4. GeekBench 5
  5. Specs

Review

CPU Performance
26
Gaming Performance
21
Battery life
64
TenzysTech Score
37

Benchmarks

Performance tests in popular benchmarks

AnTuTu 9

Total Benchmark Score
293981
CPU 77046
GPU 90560
Memory 66398
UX 59977
Total score 293981

GeekBench 5

Single-Core Score
390
Multi-Core Score
1361
Image compression 76.9 Mpixels/s
Face detection 14 images/s
Speech recognition 24.5 words/s
Machine learning 21.8 images/s
Camera shooting 11.4 images/s
HTML 5 11.4 Mnodes/s
SQLite 417.7 Krows/s

3DMark

3DMark Wild Life Performance
8%
Benchmark Score: 1050
Stability 80 %
Graphics test 6 FPS
Score 1050

Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Hisilicon Kirin 970

  CPU

68%
Turbo Clock Speed: 2360 MHz

Architecture 4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A73
4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53
Cores 8
Base Frequency 1840 MHz
Turbo Frequency 2360 MHz
Instruction set ARMv8-A
L1 cache -
L2 cache 0.5 MB
L3 cache 2 MB
Process 10 nm
Transistor count 5.5 Billion
TDP 9 W

Graphics

GPU name Mali G72 MP12
Architecture Bifrost
GPU frequency 850 MHz
Execution units 12
Shading units 192
FLOPS 347 Gigaflops
Vulkan version 1.0
OpenCL version 2.0
DirectX version 12

Memory

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

Multimedia (ISP)

Neural processor (NPU) Dedicated NPU
Storage type UFS 2.1
Max display resolution 3840 x 2160
Max camera resolution 1x 48MP, 2x 20MP
Video capture 4K at 30FPS
Video playback 4K at 60FPS
Video codecs H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, VC-1
Audio codecs 32 [email protected] kHz, HD-audio

Connectivity

Upload Speed
5G (MB/s)
4G (MB/s)
150
Download Speed
5G (MB/s)
4G (MB/s)
1200
Modem -
4G support LTE Cat. 18
5G support No
Peak Download speed -
Peak Upload speed -
Wi-Fi 5
Bluetooth 4.2
Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Announced Date September 2017
Class Flagship
Model number Hi3670
Official page Hisilicon Kirin 970 official site
Hisilicon Kirin 970
Hisilicon Kirin 970
CPU
26%
GPU
21%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
64%

33.25


Review By TenzysTech

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