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.
Benchmarks
Performance tests in popular benchmarks
Total Benchmark Score
293981
| CPU |
77046
|
| GPU |
90560 |
| Memory |
66398 |
| UX |
59977 |
| Total score |
293981
|
| 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 Wild Life Performance
| Stability |
80 %
|
| Graphics test |
6 FPS
|
| Score |
1050
|
Specifications
Full list of technical specifications of Hisilicon Kirin 970
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
|
| 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 type |
LPDDR4X
|
| Memory frequency |
1866 MHz
|
| Bus |
4x 16 Bit
|
| Max bandwidth |
29.8 Gbit/s
|
| Max size |
8 GB
|
| 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
|
| 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
|
Hisilicon Kirin 970
Energy
efficiency and battery life
33.25
Review By TenzysTech
