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Hisilicon Kirin 970

review: specs and price

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.


Hisilicon Kirin 970

review: specs and price

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.


Features

CPU Performance
15
Gaming Performance
12
Antatu Benchmark
293981
Battery Life
64
Performance
30

AnTuTu 9

Total Benchmark Score

293981
16%
CPU Performance

77046

10%
GPU Performance

90560

18%
Memory Performance

66398

18%
UX Performance

59977

GeekBench 5

390

Single-Core Score
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1361

Multi-Core Score
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76.9 Mpixels/s

Image compression
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14 images/s

Face detection
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24.5 words/s

Speech recognition
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21.8 images/s

Machine learning
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11.4 images/s

Camera shooting
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417.7 Krows/s

SQLite
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3DMark Wild Life Performance

Stability

80 %

Graphics test

6 FPS

Score

1050

Specifications

Full list of technical specifications of Hisilicon Kirin 970

CPU

62%
Turbo Frequency

2360 MHz

84%
Base Frequency

1840 MHz


  • Architecture 4x 2.36 GHz – Cortex A73
    4x 1.84 GHz – Cortex A53
  • Cores 8
  • 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-frequency

Memory frequency

1866 MHz
memory-frequency

Max bandwidth

29.8 MHz
memory-frequency

Max Size

8 GB

  • Memory type LPDDR4X
  • Bus 4x 16 Bit

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 bit@384 kHz, HD-audio

Connectivity

  • 1200 Mbps
    Download Speed
  • 150 Mbps
    Upload Speed
4G
  • -
    Download Speed
  • -
    Upload Speed
5G

  • Modem -
  • 4G support LTE Cat. 18
  • 5G support No
  • Wi-Fi 5
  • Bluetooth 4.2
  • Navigation GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo

Info

Review By TenzysTech

Hisilicon Kirin 970

CPU
15%
GPU
12%
Memory
22%
Energy efficiency and battery life
64%

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